X begins charging new users $1 per year to send tweets

After weeks of speculation, X has confirmed its plans to charge new users for the service previously known as Twitter. The company shared details about a new subscription called “Not a Bot,” that it’s currently testing in New Zealand and the Philippines.

The subscription, which was first

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                        IRS will start piloting its free TurboTax alternative in 2024

It looks like the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) truly was working on a free TurboTax alternative like earlier reports had claimed. The US tax authority has announced that it will

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                        BMW becomes the latest car maker to adopt Tesla's EV charging standard

BMW's North American EV customers should have an easier time finding charging stations in the future. The company has announced it's adopting the North American Charging Standard (NACS) for all its battery-powered EVs in the United States and Canada. The changeover should be official beginning in early 2025.

The rollout coincides with all BMW and Rolls-Royce EVs built

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                        The Morning After: X starts charging new users $1 per year to send tweets

After weeks of speculation, X has confirmed it will charge new users for the service previously known as Twitter. The company shared details about a new subscription called Not a Bot, which it’s currently testing in New Zealand and the Philippines. The subscription requires new users to pay the equivalent of $1 USD per year to post

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                        Van Gogh Museum pulls its Pokémon promo card after opening day chaos

Fans planning to see the Pokémon exhibit at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam may want to take note that they can no longer purchase the Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat promo card from its gift shop. The museum has updated the

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                        Tesla's new Driver Drowsiness Warning feature counts yawns and blinks

Tesla is now attempting to gauge the tiredness of its drivers through a new feature rolling out called "Driver Drowsiness Warning." It uses the cabin-facing camera — built to ensure the driver was watching the road and not on their phone — to gauge facial characteristics of drowsiness, such as the frequency of yawns and blinks. Rumors o

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                        Qualcomm reveals it's making a RISC-V chip for Android wearables

Qualcomm is working with Google to develop a RISC-V platform that can power Wear OS devices. RISC-V is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA), which Arm describes as "part of the abstract model of a computer th

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                        Panasonic G9 II review: Its best Micro Four Thirds camera to date

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Panasonic’s 25.2-megapixel Lumix G9 II arrived with a lot of fanfare, as it’s the company’s very first Micro Four Thirds camera with hybrid phase-detect autofocus. And from the first day of launch, Panasonic promoted it as the ultimate small-sensor wildlife and action camera, t

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                        The best Xbox Series X and Series S accessories in 2023

In the three years since the Microsoft Xbox Series X and S launched, device makers have delivered all of the accessories you'd want for a modern console. Extra SSD storage is cheaper than ever and you've also got a slew of controller options (especially if you're trying to avoid drifting thumbsticks). There are also more wireless headset choices available now, which offer an easy way to make your gameplay sound more immersive. Here are some of our recommendations for

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                        YouTube's new news hub directs you toward reliable sources

At a time when misinformation is rife on many platforms and is arguably even incentivized in some cases, YouTube is doing more to try and direct users to reliable sources of news. The platform is doing so on two fronts.

First, YouTube is rolling

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