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Taiwan has been hit with its strongest earthquake in 25 years, with an estimated magnitude of 7.something. (MSN)

The death toll currently stands at 7, with more than 700 injured. Fortunately the epicenter was on the less-populated eastern side of the island; in the densely populated north and west such a strong earthquake could have been devastating.
Amazon is closing its automated grocery stores that delivered the magical experience of walking in, picking out whatever you needed, and walking out again, and then having an amount possibly even related to what you had taken deducted from your credit card. (Gizmodo)

Automated.

Well, as to that, all those cameras weren't hooked up to some carefully trained visual AI system, but to a warehouse full of people in India keeping track of your every move.

Not sure if that's better or worse.

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Dell's new Inspiron 14 Plus is HP's Pavilion 14 Plus only worse. (Liliputing)

The Dell has a 2880x1800 display but it's half as bright as the HP's OLED panel, and the Four Essential Keys are absent as they are on all of Dell's current laptops. Since it's the same price as the HP I see no reason for anyone to buy it.
How to hack any AI. (Tech Crunch)

Be very annoying.
Wait, is Qualcomm's new laptop CPU actually good? (Tom's Hardware)

Maybe so. It's only one benchmark, but it beat AMD and Intel chips on both single-threaded scores (narrowly) and multi-threaded scores (by a substantial margin).

Qualcomm's previous efforts in this space have been underwhelming, but all reports on this venture have been positive so far.
Google Podcasts was an opportunity to do something innovative and genuinely useful. (The Verge)

But instead Google killed it and put all their efforts into generating racially diverse Nazis.
The highest-rating vtuber debut of all time is Hololive's Usada Pekora's mother.

Her April 1 stream pulled in more than 180,000 concurrent viewers.

Disclaimer: Don't let Pekora's mother having the highest rating vtuber debut of all time distract you from the fact that Pekora bought a faqing monkey.

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