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Google kills off Google Glass for a second time

TechSpot

The original Google Glass' $1,500 price tag and concerns over privacy implications meant it never caught on with customers after first arriving in 2013. But Google gave it a new lease of life as an enterprise product by 2017, releasing a second-generation model named Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 a couple of years later.

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Electronic bag tags are ready for take-off: Here’s what we learned on multiple flights with one

GeekWire

Alaska Airlines has made electronic bag tags available to elite Mileage Plan members, with a broader rollout planned in the first half of this year. Walking into Sea-Tac Airport for a Friday afternoon flight, I glanced smugly at the people huddled around the Alaska Airlines self-serve kiosks to print bag tags. Alaska is the first U.S.

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Washington state tracks down another Asian giant hornet nest, with plans to eradicate it soon

GeekWire

An Asian giant hornet tagged with a radio tracker. The Washington State Department of Agriculture said Friday that it has located a new Asian giant hornet nest — the second of 2021 — just a couple weeks after removing a sizable colony of the invasive species from a tree east of Blaine, Wash. WSDA Photo).

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Samsung’s leaked Galaxy Chromebook 2 is oranger than ever

The Verge

The keyboard on the second-generation model has been made a more neutral black, even as the orange hue has extended to the sides of the laptop. Combining the improved battery life and graphics performance from those chips with the already good-looking Samsung Galaxy Chromebook sounds like an intriguing possibility.

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Linux has made it to Mars

The Verge

Ingenuity , a tiny helicopter, tagged along for the ride. Breaking: Mars becomes the second planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows. Though I still think it’s cooler that space is pretty obviously inhospitable to human life, and yet we still put people up there anyway. Hope they have a nice time together!).

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The Thermapen One promises to make the best meat thermometer even better

The Verge

And today, the company has revealed its latest model: the $105 Thermapen One , which promises to achieve even faster temperature readings: less than a second (hence the name). It also has a longer five-year warranty, which is good to see given its relatively expensive price tag.

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VW’s ID Life concept teases a truly affordable electric car

The Verge

Revealed at the IAA Mobility conference in Munich, Germany over the weekend, the ID Life concept is a boxy little four-door compact car that’s actually more reminiscent of the overly cute Honda E than its more streamlined ID siblings. The inside of the ID Life is sparse. The other reason was Dieselgate.).

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