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Every Jaguar Is Dead Except For The Eight-Year-Old F-Pace

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Every Jaguar Is Dead Except For The Eight-Year-Old F-Pace Walk into a Jaguar dealer today and you’ll have your pick of a sedan, a sports car, an EV or two crossovers. It’s not the biggest lineup in the industry, but at least it’s a lineup. Soon, though, that won’t be the case, as Jaguar plans to kill off every single car it makes other than the F-Pace, with CEO Adrian… Read more…

Jalopnik 799 2024-07-16

Mantras for the Eight-Year-Old Boy Who Is About to Walk into Target

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Mantras for the Eight-Year-Old Boy Who Is About to Walk into Target Today is a precious gift. Even if I do not walk out of this Target with a single, solitary Minecraft-themed item. I am a confident and unique being who can pick up a Tech Deck mini skateboard, stare directly at the label ULTRA RARE, and feel absolutely no urge to beg or whine. I admit that I am powerless against the words “collect them all” and …

McSweenys 685 2024-06-28

Lenovo squeezed eight speakers into its chonky new tablet

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Lenovo squeezed eight speakers into its chonky new tablet “Four matrix tweeters and four force-balanced woofers” on the Lenovo Tab Plus deliver 26W of sound. | Image: LenovoTablets aren’t known for their room-shaking bass, but Lenovo’s new 11.5-inch Tab Plus is going all in. It features 26W of sound produced by four tweeters and four woofers split across each side of the tablet (when used in landscape …

The Verge 893 2024-06-21

Out of my last 10 flights, EIGHT have been delayed.

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Out of my last 10 flights, EIGHT have been delayed. Do I just have shitty luck or is everyone else having major issues every time they fly? It’s becoming maddening at this point. 😵‍💫 Also one of them was completely canceled and rescheduled for the next day. I missed luggage, connections, and had to stay overnights due to all these delays! Despite having a lot of time in between, at least 3 hours….

Reddit Travel 467 2024-06-20

Nine Google employees arrested after eight-hour sit-in protest

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Nine Google employees arrested after eight-hour sit-in protest Dante D’Orazio / The VergeNine Google employees who occupied the company’s offices in New York and California were arrested Tuesday night after an eight-hour sit-in. The workers were protesting Google’s involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion Israeli government contract for Google and Amazon’s cloud computing services. Employees at the Sun…

The Verge 633 2024-05-09