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The day the plastic music died: Epic shutting down Rock Band and other servers

Rock Band, Unreal, and other games at Epic lose online services on Jan. 24.
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YouTube moderation bots will start issuing warnings, 24-hour bans

New automated moderation program does not seem to allow for human intervention.
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Record lows on the Mississippi: How climate change is altering large rivers

Water levels in some of the world’s largest rivers have hit record lows in 2022.
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New iOS and macOS updates add encrypted iCloud backups and other features

Smaller updates for watchOS, tvOS, and HomePod software are also available.
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Mercedes built a concept car for Avatar, and we drove it

The collaboration may seem odd, but it made sense after we drove it.
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GM and LG get $2.5 billion battery loan from the Department of Energy

11,000 new jobs will be created in Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee.
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RIP Passwords? Passkey support rolls out to Chrome stable

With a huge list of caveats, initial Google passkey support is here.
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A quick look at AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which is smaller than an RTX 4080

We can't talk about performance yet, but these GPUs should fit in most PC cases.
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Amazon’s Echo Show 15 smart display becomes a portable Fire TV

Amazon already had a lot of success with Fire TV devices.
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Apple adds end-to-end encryption to iCloud device backups and more

Company abandons its plans for CSAM scanning, too.