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Toyota’s Scion is back, starting with an American-made, 25-mph kei truck

Toyota is dusting off the Scion badge for a radically different mission. Rather than targeting youth-market hatchbacks, "Scion by Toyota" is being positioned as an experimental mobility incubator - and its first vehicle is an authentic Japanese-style kei truck built in Indiana. Kei vehicles, which are built to satisfy Japan's light vehicle regulations, are enjoying surging popularity around the world, including here in the US. More than 30,000 used kei trucks have been imported into the US since 2020, with roughly 7,500 units entering the country each year. Even President Trump is a fan, telli

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Google’s Tabletop AI experiment lets you build custom collaboration apps

Tabletop isn’t anything to do with D&D or boardgames, but it does make it easier to coordinate with freinds, | Image: Google Google has cooked up a new experimental AI tool called Tabletop that generates customized collaborative hubs to help you coordinate with family, and friends. The Tabletop platform shares some visual similarities with workplace management apps like Asana and Monday, but with a built-in AI feature that allows you to vibecode personalized interactive tools by describing them, such as savings trackers, chore charts, event plans, and more. "Just add in your links, files and

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The best early Black Friday deals you can already shop

The countdown to Black Friday is on, and the first discounts are starting to appear. Although the shopping holiday isn’t officially until November 27th, retailers are already dropping early deals on some of our favorite tech. Of course, with prices rising across the board, a good discount doesn’t necessarily mean you’re getting a historically low price. But we’re still seeing worthwhile discounts on a host of tried-and-tested gear, with more expected in the coming weeks. Below, we’ve rounded up the best early Black Friday deals we’ve found so far. Prices could drop further as Black Friday appr

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Sharge’s eye-catching MacBook charger is over 25 percent off

Looking for a MacBook and device charger that’s as stylish as it is capable? Both Amazon and Sharge are selling the Pixel 140W GaN charger for $69.88 and $69.90, respectively, a $24 discount on its usual price. If you’re not in need of that much wattage but like the style, Sharge is also selling the 67W version for $19.90 ($30 off) or the 100W version for $59.90 ($16 off). Sharge Pixel 140 GaN Charger Where to Buy: $90.9 $69.88 at Amazon $90.9 $69.9 at Sharge The Pixel 140 delivers up to 140W of power when using only one of its three USB-C ports, which Sharge says is capable of taking a 1

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You can now buy the Pixel Tag, cases from Bellroy & Spigen available - 9to5Google

You can now buy the Pixel Tag, cases from Bellroy & Spigen available  9to5Google Google Pixel Tag Hands-On: The AirTag for Android Fans  CNET Google’s Pixel Tag tracker is now available  The Verge I lost my keys twice to test the Pixel Tag: It aced downtown but struggled on a quiet trail  Android Authority Pixel Tag, Google’s $30 Android-ready answer to Apple’s AirTag, is now available  TechCrunch

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Ocarina of Time is even better if you use a smartphone app

Hey there, buddy. I never liked hunting for Golden Skulltulas in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The game has 100 of them tucked all over Hyrule, and even over my many hours with the N64 classic growing up, I can't remember ever actually finding all of them, or even wanting to. Jumping into the Ocarina of Time remake, I expected to ignore the Golden Skulltulas once again. But while poking around Nintendo's Zelda Notes companion app, I discovered that its maps are a huge help to tracking down all of the elusive golden spiders - and pretty much every other collectible in the game - and n

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Google’s AlphaGenome 2 zooms in on the cellular roots of disease

A graphic representing Google’s AlphaGenome Atlas. | Image: Google Researchers at Google DeepMind have unveiled a new AI model designed to unravel how changes in our DNA affect different cells, giving scientists a more detailed view of a notoriously difficult problem that could hold important clues to the causes of disease - and point the way to new treatments. AlphaGenome 2 is the successor to DeepMind's genome-predicting AI model AlphaGenome, which was released last year. While nearly every cell in the human body carries the same DNA, different types of cells - from heart muscle cells and

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