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Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target
The binary asteroid's orbit around the Sun was affected by the impact.
How moss helped convict grave robbers of a Chicago cemetery
Burr Oak Cemetery is the final resting place of Emmett Till and blues singer Willie Dixon, among others.
Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI
Musk can't convince judge public doesn't care about where AI training data comes from.
Americans trust Fauci over RFK Jr. and career scientists over Trump officials
RFK Jr. has tried hard to villainize Fauci. Americans still trust Fauci more.
Climate change sucks, but at least it won't kill your EV battery
Older EVs, but not newer ones, may lose up to 30 percent range in a warming world.
Apple users in the US can no longer download ByteDance's Chinese apps
Move comes in the wake of TikTok's transfer of US operations.
Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
Announcements this week were mostly business as usual, but Apple isn't immune.
With Gateway likely gone, where will lunar landers rendezvous with Orion?
"We will challenge every requirement, clear every obstacle, delete every blocker."
Why are vertebrate eyes so different from those of other animals?
A new hypothesis proposes that our ancestors lost their eyes, then rebuilt them.
Tech industry is in tariff hell, even if refunds are automated
Trade groups urge court to create a simple blueprint for tariff refunds.
AI startup sues ex-CEO, saying he took 41GB of email and lied on résumé
Hayden AI also claims co-founder improperly sold over $1.2M in stock.
Which of these two arcades is the "world largest"—and does it matter?
While semantics count for some, gamers win either way.
Rocket Report: SpaceX launch prices are going up; Russia fixes broken launch pad
It looks like United Launch Alliance will build more upper stages for NASA's SLS rocket.
Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom
Meta accused of "concealing the facts" about smart glass users' privacy.
MS exec: Microsoft's next console will play "Xbox and PC games"
Project Helix is set to open the closed-console ecosystem, but the details will matter.
RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies are "unreviewable," DOJ lawyer tells judge
The startling claim came amid a lawsuit from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems
Problems viewing products and checking out.
OpenAI introduces GPT-5.4 with more knowledge-work capability
Updates come amid user blowback over the company's Pentagon deal.
The Boys S5 trailer tees up a bloody final season
"My power is absolute. At heights no one ever dreamed of. But I have a bigger destiny."
Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation
With no enforcement and questionable economics, it may not make a difference.
Nerve damage, energy management, and Apple TV: F1 in 2026 starts today
Drivers aren't happy about energy management, and one team won't finish the race.
Lanterns teaser swaps superhero hijinks for gritty realism
DC's Green Lantern is reimagined as part True Detective, part Slow Horses, and we're here for it.
Congress extends ISS and tells NASA to get moving on private space stations
"We were happy to see the renewed commitment to transition from the ISS."
Musk testifies tweet that led to $44 billion lawsuit "may not have been my wisest"
Elon Musk takes the stand in a San Francisco courtroom.
macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update will "upgrade" your M5's CPU to new "super" cores
In otherwise minor software update, macOS now uses M5's new nomenclature.
TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant
Plant won't be done until 2030 at the earliest, and it still needs an operating license.
Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space
"I am not aware of anything that is extraterrestrial, other than comets and things like that."
Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases
System can identify genes, regulatory sequences, splice sites, and more.
Google and Epic announce settlement to end app store antitrust case
The era of the 30 percent app store cut has ended.
Lawsuit: Google Gemini sent man on violent missions, set suicide "countdown"
Gemini allegedly called man its "husband," said they could be together in death.
After a rocky six years, Sony cancels future single-player PC game releases
Titles like Ghost of Yotei will remain exclusive to Sony's hardware.
Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans
SEM analysis of pottery residues showed people combined fish with a wide variety of plants when cooking.
The US Senate empowers NASA to fully engage in lunar space race
"Our bill authorizes critical funding for, and gives strategic direction to, the agency."
MacBook Neo hands-on: Apple build quality at a substantially lower price
The Neo won't be for everyone, but Apple has managed to preserve a premium feel.
Google Pixel 10a review: The sidegrade
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Are consumers doomed to pay more for electricity due to data center buildouts?
Data center operators to sign pledge to supply their own power instead of relying on grid.
The $599 MacBook Neo is Apple's long-awaited colorful, lower-cost MacBook
Cute, colorful laptop takes the place of the old $599 M1 MacBook Air.
No fooling: NASA targets April 1 for Artemis II launch to the Moon
"Engineers are assessing what allowed the seal to become dislodged to prevent the issue from recurring."
Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B deal
Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.
FCC chair calls Paramount/WBD merger "a lot cleaner" than defunct Netflix deal
FCC to review foreign debt, but Carr indicates it will be a formality.
What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes
Multispectral imaging, proteomics, historical texts yield new insights into 16th-century medical manuals.
There are plenty of great choices if you want to spend less than $15K on an EV
There's a lot of good Hyundai and Kia EVs in this price bracket, plus the Bolt and i3.
M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon
Apple is using more chiplets and three types of CPU cores to make the M5 family.
New MacBook Airs come with M5, double the storage, and higher starting prices
New Airs leave more room underneath for the rumored low-cost MacBook.
Apple intros M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and its first new monitors in years
New laptops come with more storage but also higher starting prices.
This is why our electricity bills are so high right now
New data shows electricity rates rose 5 percent nationwide in 2025.
As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar "harvester"
"Ultimately, we want to build a fleet of electric harvesters."
Medical journal The Lancet blasts RFK Jr.’s health work as a failure
Kennedy's destruction "might take generations to repair," The Lancet said.
LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy
Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.
With developer verification, Google's Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android's open legacy
Questions remain as Google prepares to lock down Android app distribution in the name of security.
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