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The deadline for Congress to keep the government funded is only a month before the tax filing deadline, creating a whole array of new concerns and questions.
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 Amazon this week has Apple's AirTag 4-Pack for $69.99, down from $99.00. Amazon introduced this all-time low price back in January, and it's been reappearing throughout the month of February.
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Microplastics are everywhere, including in some of your favorite foods and drinks. Check out these steps you can take to cut down on plastic particles.
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The General Services Administration plans on shutting down federal EV charging infrastructure in the coming weeks and "offloading" EVs purchased by the previous administration, The Verge reports.
Since the GSA oversees government buildings, shutting down chargers will impact personal electric vehicles owned by government employees and government-owned EVs. "As GSA has worked to align with the current administration, we have received direction that all GSA owned charging stations are not mission critical," an email viewed by The Verge reads.
There were a a steadily increasing number of federally-owned EVs after President Biden ordered the government agencies to electrify their fleets in 2021. Part of the Inflation Reduction Act signed in 2024 also included funding to build EV chargers for the growing number of vehicles used by the government.
The shutdown will take place over the coming weeks and will coincide with
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Elon Musk's chainsaw has been swinging through the federal government over the last few weeks, with his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chopping down budgets and excising staff at a number of agencies. Among those affected is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which is said to be losing about 10 percent of its relatively small headcount through buyouts and firings.
According to The Washington Post, between 70 and 80 people are departing the agency, which is responsible for road safety in the US. Those ex-employees are said to have worked in a number of areas, such as safety grant funding and crash test dummies.
The DOGE cull also impacted three people from a very small team that was working on the safety of autonomous vehicles, such as those from Alphabet's Waymo, Amazon's Zoox and — hey, look at that! — Elon Musk's Tesla. It's probably just a coincidence that an organization headed by the same person who is CEO of a prominent company that's working on self-driving cars has cut federal employees that are evaluating the safety of such technology. Probably.
"If the question is, will this affect the federal government's ability to understand the safety case behind Tesla's
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Don't worry about downloading apps -- your iPhone already has several tools to block all those annoying calls and texts from random numbers.
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 This week we saw the return of a big sale on Apple Watch Series 10, plus numerous record low prices on iPad Pro, iPad Air, Apple Studio Display, and Apple Pencil Pro.
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Don't let the cost of internet weigh you down. Here are our top tips for cutting back your monthly internet bill.
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