Matthew Bultman / Bloomberg Law:
Filing: Xerox PARC accuses Facebook and Twitter of patent infringement, including through tools both companies use to slow the spread of misinformation  —  A Xerox Corp. subsidiary has accused Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. of infringing several of its patents, including through tools …

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The new M1 MacBook models are out, and big discounts can be had on the older, Intel-based models.

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High-end vacuums and small appliances from the always-hyped manufacturer are seeing some big discounts ahead of this holiday season.

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There's never been a better price for AirPods Pro.

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Cade Metz / New York Times:
For many AI researchers, OpenAI's GPT-3 has been an unexpected step toward machines that can understand the vagaries of human language  —  The latest natural-language system generates tweets, pens poetry, summarizes emails, answers trivia questions, translates languages and even writes its own computer programs.

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We're not sure if it'll be a battery-based system or a supercapacitor-based system like the Sian's.

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As Disney reopens shopping inside California Adventure's Buena Visa Street, here's how California's state rules will affect the reopening of the iconic original Disney theme park.

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