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Indian authorities have confiscated about 688 million euros in money from Xiaomi India. According to the country's Enforcement Directorate, the company has made illegal payments to foreign entities.Xiaomi would have classified those…

The Document Foundation has released the fifth update to version 7.2 of LibreOffice. This open source office package originated as a fork of OpenOffice and comes with the word processor Writer, spreadsheet program Calc, presentation…

Repair company iFixit, in partnership with Microsoft, is releasing a number of tools needed to repair recent Surface devices. iFixit provides the tools to independent repairers who are part of the iFixit Pro program.For now, there are…

US space company SpaceX has successfully launched a launch that kicks off NASA's DART mission. A SpaceX rocket has launched a probe that should collide with an asteroid at high speed next year.The DART spacecraft, or Double Asteroid…

Software designer Victor Toth has spent the past year training rats to play Doom. He finally managed to get rats to maneuver the game character through a simple level.Toth has built a 'VR setup' to automatically train the rats. The setup…

The repair program that will allow users to self-replace parts of Apple products will benefit right-to-repair legislation. That says the director of repair site iFixit in response to Apple's announcement.Apple has so far flouted…

Xiaomi has developed a new smartphone cooling system. The Chinese company calls it Loop Liquidcool and it consists of two separate segments for gas and liquid. Xiaomi claims to be able to achieve temperatures that are 5 degrees lower…

Apex Legends will receive a new map, Storm Point, with the start of the 11th season on November 2. It's the biggest map for the battleroyale game to date, the makers say. Players not only encounter each other on the island, but also…

CentOS veteran and project leader Karanbir Singh resigns and leaves his position on the CentOS board. Singh will retire as Red Hat takes a new course with CentOS, with a focus on CentOS Stream.Singh said on his departure that he hopes the…

Tesla has started supplying the new version of the Model X. Compared to the previous variations, the Model X now has a new interior, with the central touchscreen now horizontal instead of vertical and a steering wheel without a…