New items – 3 total

• Gemini is an increasingly good chatbot, but it’s still a bad assistant

  https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/gemini-is-an-increasingly-good-chatbot-but-its-still-a-bad-assistant/

  Ars Technica 04/01/2025

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• Review: Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft is something less than “a Paperwhite with color”

  https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/for-regular-books-amazons-280-kindle-colorsoft-falls-short-of-the-paperwhite/

  Ars Technica 04/01/2025

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• Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought

  https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/the-harrowing-story-of-what-flying-starliner-was-like-when-its-thrusters-failed/

  Ars Technica 04/01/2025

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