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Alessandra Potenza

Alessandra Potenza

Former Deputy Science Editor

Former Deputy Science Editor

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    1. The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
    2. Apple is banking on privacy to set its smart glasses apart
    3. Meta is royally screwing up its smart glasses rollout
    4. Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc
    5. This is my new favorite laptop, but thanks to RAMageddon it already went up in price by $800