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BRINC's new police drone uses Starlink, carries Narcan, chases vehicles at 60mph
Company calls Guardian the "most capable 911 response drone ever."
Here is NASA's plan for nuking Gateway and sending it to Mars
Only one US-built nuclear reactor has ever flown in space, and that was more than 60 years ago.
Reddit will require "fishy" accounts to verify they are run by a human
AI-generated content is still acceptable for now.
We got an audience with the "Lunar Viceroy" to talk how NASA will build a Moon base
"It has been clear that we all need to be focused on one thing, not 10 things."
Meta, YouTube must pay $3M to woman who got hooked on apps as a child
Meta emerges as the biggest loser as second child safety trial verdict hits.
Nintendo is raising prices of Switch 2 game cartridges starting in May
The first physical game affected will cost $10 more than a digital copy.
Supreme Court rejects Sony's attempt to kick music pirates off the Internet
Sony's 1984 Betamax win helps Cox beat Sony in important online piracy case.
Google's TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x
TurboQuant makes AI models more efficient but doesn't reduce output quality like other methods.
Antibiotic resistance among germs swells during droughts, study suggests
Study links two crises: Climate change and antibiotic-resistant infections.
Trump staffs science and technology panel with non-scientists
Appointee list is in keeping with the administration's hostility toward science.
Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought
Company warns entire industry to move off RSA and EC more quickly.
Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was “inevitable” on its apps
Meta plans to appeal as it faces down two other child safety trials.
Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update
Move follows government pressure on smartphone makers to do more to protect children online.
Disney cancels $1 billion OpenAI partnership amid Sora shutdown plans
Press reports suggest Disney was blindsided and that no money changed hands.
Honda cancels the two electric vehicles it was developing with Sony
Sony Honda Mobility says the Afeela 1 and Afeela 2 are no more.
So long, farewell: Saying goodbye to Audi's best car, the 2026 RS6 Avant
With production now finished, we take one last ride in our favorite station wagon.
How chemists turned bourbon waste into supercapacitors
Hydrothermal carbonization can directly convert sloppy stillage into hard or activated carbon.
"The last straw"—RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally angrily quits CDC panel after spat
Robert Malone quit a vaccine panel, blaming an HHS spokesperson for "trashing" him.
Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
Too much hardware was allowed to disconnect right at the edge of normal conditions.
Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
Walmart wants to connect what people stream "directly with retail interaction."
Mozilla dev's "Stack Overflow for agents" targets a key weakness in coding AI
There are major problems to be solved before it can be adopted, though.
OpenAI announces plans to shut down its Sora video generator
Move comes amid a reported plan to refocus on business and productivity use cases.
Electronic Frontier Foundation to swap leaders as AI, ICE fights escalate
Public interest in government tech abuses is peaking. EFF's new leader plans to build on that.
FCC imposes sweeping ban on foreign-made routers, affecting all new models
Trump admin to decide which router makers get exemptions from FCC import ban.
Apple releases iOS, iPadOS, macOS 26.4 with a long list of medium-size tweaks
The 26.4 updates are more significant than the last few updates have been.
NASA kills lunar space station to focus on ambitious Moon base
"Everyone wants to be on the surface."
Google's new version of Android Automotive will move beyond infotainment
Google wants Android in cars to break out of the infotainment box.
Apple confirms that its Maps app will begin showing ads to users "this summer"
Apple Maps ads will look and work a bit like current App Store ads do.
All of DOGE’s work could be undone as lawsuit against Musk proceeds
Musk's X posts bragging about DOGE may trigger reversals of its biggest wins.
Claude Code can now take over your computer to complete tasks
But Anthropic urges caution as "research preview" safeguards "aren't absolute."
Study says roads bring more fires to forests; USDA wants more roads to fight fires
Opponents say the proposed rule would be a giveaway to the timber industry.
Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines
Development houses: It's time to check your networks for infections.
Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right?
"This is not physically impossible; it's only a question of whether this is a rational thing."
A mission NASA might kill is still returning fascinating science from Jupiter
"We can't quite afford to support everything that we have done in the past."
Trump's MAHA pick for surgeon general flounders amid GOP doubts
She stalled over MAHA woo-woo, anti-vaccine views, and lacking medical background.
Nvidia CEO tries to explain why DLSS 5 isn’t just “AI slop”
If game makers don't like it, they could decide not to use it, you know?"
After hackers hit an Iowa company, cars around the country failed to start
If you don't calibrate your interlock in time, your vehicle is dead.
LG Display starts mass-producing LTPO-like 1 Hz LCD displays for laptops
Dell XPS laptops will be the first to use the display tech that reaches up to 120 Hz.
US to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US
Payment reimburses the company for two leases, one for a massive 3 GW wind farm.
Intuit beats FTC in court, ending restrictions on "free" TurboTax ads
Biden-era punishment tossed; Intuit now has more friendly regulators under Trump.
Apple will talk iOS 27, macOS 27, and more at WWDC 2026 on June 8
WWDC is often light on hardware, but it's where big software announcements happen.
Long fingernails vs. touchscreens: This nail polish could help
Undergraduate's prototype conductive nail polish could turn long fingernails into touchscreen styluses.
Republicans in Congress add $250 annual federal EV tax to transport bill
Five principles should determine how you fund transport, says Consumer Reports.
As teens await sentencing for nudifying girls, parents aim to sue school
Teens will be sentenced Wednesday after admitting to creating AI CSAM.
A bit of good news: It's possible to turn around a groundwater crisis
Analyzing dozens of cases around the world yields some practical lessons.
AI is beginning to change the business of law
Attorneys are finding uses for AI apart from generating fake case quotations.
A unique NASA satellite is falling out of orbit—this team is trying to rescue it
Katalyst Space Technologies must launch the Swift rescue mission by this summer.
There can (still) be only one: Highlander is 40
Sure, it's cheesy in many respects, but its central mythology still resonates even decades later.
Mining the deep ocean
Policymakers debate if we even need deep ocean mining and if we can do it safely.
We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids—what's it telling us?
This week's result is just the latest in a growing collection of discoveries.
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