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Tesla just laid off more employees after gutting the entire charging team

Tesla isn't done with laying off workers.

According to reports from Business Insider and Electrek, Elon Musk's EV car company laid off more employees over the weekend. With these latest cuts, Tesla has now entered its fourth week of layoffs.

It's unclear just how many workers lost their jobs at Tesla in this latest round of layoffs. At least seven employees have confirmed being laid off from their jobs in Tesla's software, services, and engineering departments. 

"After watching my team...

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Emilia David

Google’s AI plans now include cybersecurity

Illustration: The Verge

As people try to find more uses for generative AI that are less about making a fake photo and are instead actually useful, Google plans to point AI to cybersecurity and make threat reports easier to read.

In a blog post, Google writes its new cybersecurity product, Google Threat Intelligence, will bring together the work of its Mandiant cybersecurity unit and VirusTotal threat intelligence with the Gemini AI model.

The new product uses the Gemini 1.5 Pro large...

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A.O. Scott

Why Kristi Noem Is in the Doghouse

Americans like their politicians to be dog people. Gov. Noem broke the mold.

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Trump Trial: 45 Seconds to Capture History

A challenge for news photographers, and more on how we are covering the trial.

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Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek

Trump Is Threatened With Jail: 5 Takeaways From His Hush-Money Trial

Prosecutors on Monday took the jury deep into the Trump Organization’s ledgers as the state’s case proceeds at speed.

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Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Alan Feuer and William K. Rashbaum

Jurors in Trump Trial Hear Witness Tie the President to the Payment

Before prosecutors began presenting crucial records, the judge held Donald J. Trump in contempt, saying his complaints about the jury were “a direct attack on the rule of law.”

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Aaron Boxerman

Hamas’s announcement adds to the uncertainty of the cease-fire talks.

The terms Hamas had agreed to were not immediately clear, but a senior Israeli official quickly said that the terms were not those that Israel had agreed to.

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Boone Ashworth

How to Watch the Boeing Starliner Launch

Boeing’s first ever human-crewed spacecraft is launching tonight. You can watch it live right here.

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Savannah Leigh Richardson

Beloved PGA Tour pro calls out LIV Golf players for excessive cursing at Masters

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Padraig Harrington offered the LIV Golf players solid advice on their language ahead of future major championships.

Nearly a month has passed since LIV Golf and PGA Tour players came together for the season's first major.

There have been numerous occasions of LIV players using profanities and having outbursts while on the course. But apparently, it does not happen solely in LIV events.

Beloved PGA Tour professional Padraig Harrington voiced his...

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Justine Calma

Microsoft ramps up plans to capture carbon from burning wood

Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, speaks during a climate initiative event at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, on Thursday, January 16th, 2020.  | Photo: Getty Images

Microsoft is doubling down on a controversial plan to capture carbon dioxide emissions from wood-burning power plants. It announced a contract with energy company Stockholm Exergi to capture 3.33 million metric tons of carbon emissions from a biomass power plant in the Swedish capital in what is...

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'Apple Pencil Pro' tipped for Apple May 7 event: 3 new features it could have

Could an Apple Pencil Pro be on the way? Apple has teased that a new Apple Pencil is on the way, as we can see in the promo image on the Apple Events page.

However, what we weren't expecting is a "pro" variant of the iPad stylus. As spotted by X user @ribu_ap712, code on Apple's Japan-based website hints that a brand-spankin' new Apple Pencil Pro could be revealed at the May 7 Apple livestream event.

Tweet may have been deleted Apple Pencil Pro: 3 possible new...

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United falls at Palace for record 13th Prem defeat

Michael Olise scored a brace of goals as Crystal Palace completed a league double over Manchester United for the first time in their history with a thumping 4-0 victory at Selhurst Park on Monday that will add to the pressure on Erik ten Hag.

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Ohm Youngmisuk

Clips hope to keep George, Harden with Kawhi

Lawrence Frank, president of basketball operations, said the Clippers hope to retain both Paul George and James Harden to continue playing alongside Kawhi Leonard.

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Charles Homans and Neil Vigdor

Gaza Isn’t Root of Biden’s Struggles With Young Voters, Polls Show

Young voters are far more likely than other Americans to support Palestinians. But few cite the conflict as a top source of discontent with the president.

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Anton Tabuena

Reload or Rebuild? What will the Suns, Lakers and every other first-round loser do now?

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The Suns, Lakers, Sixers and every other team to lose in the first round of the NBA playoffs are facing big decisions this summer.

LeBron James and Anthony Davis.
Giannis Antetokounmpo, Damian Lillard and Khris Middleton.
Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal.
Kawhi Leonard, James Harden, Paul George and Russell Westbrook.
Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey.
Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo.

It seems weird to think that not a single one of...

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Jack Milko

PGA Championship: Talor Gooch reacts to shocking invite despite LIV Golf OWGR beef

Talor Gooch smiles after making a putt during LIV Golf Adelaide. | Photo by Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images

LIV Golf’s Talor Gooch, who has ruffled some feathers over his comments about majors, received an invite to the 2024 PGA Championship.

Talor Gooch has received a special invitation from the PGA of America to play in next week’s PGA Championship. So, there will be no asterisk next to the 2024 PGA Championship winner in the history books.

All jokes aside, Gooch, the LIV Golf...

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Emma Roth

Watch NASA launch its first astronauts aboard the Boeing Starliner

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NASA will attempt to send a pair of astronauts to space aboard Boeing’s Starliner aircraft for the first time today. Starliner has faced several delays over the years, with its first uncrewed test flight in 2019 ending in failure before it successfully docked at the International Space Station in 2022. While Starliner’s first crewed flight was supposed to take place last May, NASA delayed the launch due to technical issues.

The launch will take...

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Chris Welch

These are the upcoming Sonos Ace wireless headphones

Image: Schuurman

There’s a lot riding on Sonos’ first pair of wireless headphones; CEO Patrick Spence has said he expects the product category to be a huge revenue driver for the company. The headphones are expected to ship sometime next month, but today, we’re getting a first look at the hardware design — and we now know what they’ll be called.

You’re looking at the Sonos Ace headphones. These images were prematurely published by authorized Sonos parts dealer Schuurman....

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