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Facebook and Big Pharma exploited disease “awareness” for personalized marketing

Enlarge (credit: Getty | YinYang) Pharmaceutical companies spend around $6.5 billion a year on advertising, and even though Facebook prohibits the use of “sensitive health information” in ad targeting, about $1 billion of that ad spending ends up in the companies’ pockets. Big Pharma, it turns out, has found some creative ways to work within […]

Silent seatbelt chimes cause Tesla to issue recall for 817, 143 cars

Enlarge / South Korean safety researchers discovered a bug that can prevent a Tesla’s seatbelt chimes from chiming. (credit: Getty Images) Tesla has issued a new recall this week. On Tuesday it notified the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that some brand new Models S and X, as well as potentially any Models 3 or […]

Arm’s Cortex X2-based CPUs are 30 percent faster and more efficient

Speeds and feeds for the three new CPU designs. [credit: Arm ] Arm has announced its next-generation CPU designs, which will probably hit the market in early 2022. With all-new cores, a new architecture, and the death of 32 bit, they are proving to be among Arm’s biggest releases in some time. I don’t think […]