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Jess Weatherbed

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    Jess Weatherbed
    RIP Google Hangouts.

    Google has been slowly planning the demise of Google Hangouts since 2018. With today’s removal of the web app, Hangouts is officially dead and will join Google’s ever-growing product graveyard.

    Google should have already automatically transferred your existing conversations to Chat for anyone that was still holding out.

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Tesla Cybertruck to enter mass production at the end of 2023.

    Reuters reports that Tesla’s plant in Austin, TX will start mass production of the Cybertruck by the end of 2023.

    Musk and Co told analysts back in October that “we’re in the final lap for Cybertruck” with “early production” set to start in the middle of 2023. With things seemingly on track, maybe soon we’ll get a price?

    Exclusive: Tesla plans mass production start for Cybertruck at end of 2023

    [Reuters]

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