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If you're enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education income-driven repayment plan, brace for changes.
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If you're enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education income-driven repayment plan, brace for changes.
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Autonomous vehicle company Cruise is laying off around half of its workforce, according to reporting by TechCrunch. The cuts even extend to the CEO and other top executives. This is part of a major restructuring effort by parent company GM that will eventually see a total shutdown of operations.
These layoffs are expected to impact well over 1,000 people and include CEO Marc Whitten, chief safety officer Steve Kenner and global head of public policy Rob Grant. Chief technologist Mo Elshenawy is also being laid off, but will stay on until the end of April to help with the transition. To that end, some of Cruise's workforce and resources will carry on. They are being shuffled to the Super Cruise team, which is GM's driver assistance system.
These layoffs don't come as too much of a surprise, given that GM already announced it was giving up on the development of robotaxis. The company, however, hasn't stopped chasing the dream of autonomous vehicles. GM is still planning on rolling out driverless cars for personal use at some point in the future.
Cruise has had a rough last couple of years. The company faced scrutiny after one of its robotaxis struck a pedestrian and dragged them 20 feet. Prior to the crash, the company's algorithm was fairly notorious for being buggy, as it
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To answer those thorny questions, we consult the ANSI and BHMA standards bodies, both of which provide ratings about the long-term physical capabilities of a lock. But what do those ratings mean, and why doesn't every lock manufacturer use them?
Let's dig deeper.
BHMA director of standards Anthony Gambrall
Understanding ANSI ratings
ANSI, the American National Standards Institute, is a nonprofit organization that dates to 1918(!). It represents hundreds of thousands of companies and manages standards for a vast array of products, ranging from the size of a piece of paper to the way nuclear power plants should be cooled.
This story is part of TechHive's in-depth coverage of the best smart locks.
ANSI ratings for locks place them into one of three categories: 1, 2, or 3. These are seemingly broad buckets where 1 is highest and 3 is lowest. According to ANSI:
ANSI grade 1 locks are top-of-the-line products that (for deadbolts) must withst
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This one should probably stay in the dustbin.
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Netflix has been revamping its games division in recent months, including making adjustments to the library of titles that it offers subscribers at no extra cost. The company has canceled release plans for six games that were previously bound for iOS and Android through its platform.
As first reported by What's On Netflix, the company will no longer bring Thirsty Suitors, Compass Point: West and Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game to its library. Nor will it offer three titles from Klei Entertainment: Don't Starve Together, Lab Rat and Rotwood. A Netflix spokesperson confirmed the decision to Engadget, noting that nixing the planned additions was "just a natural part of adjusting our portfolio as we learn more about what our members like."
Tales of the Shire, a cozy life sim game featuring hobbits, is
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 Apple this week increased the prices for its monthly AppleCare subscription prices for the iPhone, raising the cost by 50 cents for all models in the United States.
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 Adobe has updated the Acrobat AI Assistant, giving it the ability to understand contracts and to compare them for you. The company says it can help you make sense of complex terms and spot differences between agreements, such as between old and new ones, so you can understand what you're signing. With the AI Assistant enabled, the Acrobat app will be able to recognize if a document is a contract, even if it's a scanned page. It can identify and list key terms from there, summarize the document's contents and recommend questions you can ask based on what's in it.
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The feature can also compare up to 10 contracts with one another and be able to check for differences and catch discrepancies. When it's done checking, and if you're satisfied that everything's in order, you can sign the document directly or request e-signatures from your colleagues or clients. Adobe listed a few potential uses for the feature and said you can use it to check apartment leases, to verify out-of-country charges for mobile plans and to compare perks or amenities of competing services. It could be even more useful if you regularly have to take a look at multiple contracts for your work or business.
Of course, you'd have to trust the AI assistant to actually be able to spot important information and catch both small and significant changes between different contracts. If it works properly, then it could be one o
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 Apple Pay now supports Citi Flex Pay, allowing U.S. Citi credit card holders to pay for ?Apple Pay? purchases over time with the Flex Pay option.
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