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Researchers found a fossilized seascape while studying the impact of a volcanic eruption.

Did OpenAI's big holiday event live up to the billing?

This is how to do a remaster.

ULA's Vulcan rocket is at least several months away from flying again, and Stoke names its engine.

o3 matches human levels on ARC-AGI benchmark, and o3-mini exceeds o1 at some tasks.

Most owners still won't be refunded for the emotional support toy.

UK judge issues 1-year suspended prison sentence as Wright hides in Asia.

Let's hope Netflix fixes its live buffering problems beforehand.

Aluminum AirTag case replaces coin cell with 2 AA Lithium batteries for extended lifespan.

The most direct push for Google's Gemini chat so far.

OEMs also called out for selling data they collect on drivers.

Staff worried they were no longer helping people and the ban would lead to deaths.

Potentially groundbreaking AI releases have been coming in fast, sending experts' heads spinning.

Big Mama VPN tied to network which offers access to residential IP addresses.

Compute costs scale with the square of the input size. That's not great.

"Quite simply, we want to find the birthplace of the solar wind."

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is Google's take on so-called AI reasoning models.

Home Assistant's voice device is a $60 box that's both focused and evolving.

Ingram Micro the latest to ditch VMware, but VMware's still making money.

"Genesis" can compress training times from decades into hours using 3D worlds conjured from text.

Fighting game YouTuber now fighting Google over monstrous" post-hack revenue loss.

"A-Life" fixes will ensure even more randomness in an already odd fallout zone.

Drone sightings cause worry; FBI said it hadn't "identified anything anomalous."

Not as serious as the 13th/14th-gen voltage problems, but the fixes are similar.

Audi's mid-sized electric SUV is now on sale in the US, and we've tested it.

"Maybe, maybe, maybe today, maybe soon. I think it's very soon."

Chemosphere cut from Web of Science, which calculates impact factors.

Will Tencent's "open source" HunyuanVideo launch an at-home "Stable Diffusion" moment for uncensored AI video?

Footage gives us glimpses of Lex Luthor, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl and Superman's plucky little white dog Kryto.

Amazon downplaying what workers declared is largest strike" ever in the US.

When the Sun doesn't shine and the wind is calm, humankind still needs power.

Amazon lacks space to accommodate its entire workforce.

Texas police officer switched to AT&T FirstNet and got a horrible surprise.

The person is experiencing severe respiratory illness from the H5N1 infection.

It works well, but there still aren't enough modern, console-style games.

At issue: Arm SoC designs that Qualcomm acquired when it bought Nuvia in 2021.

TikTok won't get injunction but will get SCOTUS review ahead of potential ban.

1-800-CHATGPT telephone number lets any US caller talk to OpenAI's assistant-no smartphone required.

Founded in China, TP-Link makes routers popular in US homes and businesses.

Few homes will need it, but the (literal) edge cases are quite intriguing.

A sizable early adopter niche will still pay for the most powerful console possible.

The regulations will phase out the sale of new internal combustion cars by 2035.

Capable of servicing both NACS and CCS1 EVs, some chargers will be rated at 500 kW.

Help push our charity haul past $16,000 in just over a week.

Drug sales on the dark web are trending downward in favor of Snapchat, Telegram, and others.

"Space is an area of activity where there is never a 100 percent guaranteed result."

Novel hunting behavior may have emerged alongside a marked increase in the local vole population this summer.

No federal agencies have accused Musk of disclosing classified information.

Kids who were in 8th grade at pandemic's start have ushered in an era of abstaining.

Fully disabling optional, AI-powered filters seems to fix the problem.