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Novel camera system lets us see the world through eyes of birds and bees
It captures natural animal-view moving images with over 90 percent accuracy.
Chrome can now organize your tab bar for you
A click in Chrome can turn your messy tab layout into carefully organized groups.
Avatar: The Last Airbender trailer has the element-bending action we crave
Aang has his friends and a lovable flying ball of fur. What more does he need?
Stop telling everyone that TurboTax is “free,” FTC orders Intuit
FTC bureau chief: "Free" means free-not "free for a few."
Pokémon with guns”: Palworld’s runaway Steam success should be a lesson for Game Freak
Op-ed: Dark comedy is part of the draw, but many want a game with bigger ideas.
Ambient light sensors can reveal your device activity. How big a threat is it?
For now, there's no reason for concern, but that could change in coming years.
The physics of an 18th-century fire engine
English inventor Richard Newsham used "windkessels" in his game-changing designs.
Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds
Single-vehicle, single-pedestrian crash data for 2016-2021 finds hoods a problem.
Netflix will stream WWE Raw in $5 billion deal
WWE is abandoning its longtime home on cable, USA Network.
Daily Telescope: Looking up to brilliant skies Down Under
"It was taken using my mobile phone, a Google Pixel 7 Pro."
NASA urged Astrobotic not to send its hamstrung spacecraft toward the Moon
A propellant leak prevented the Peregrine spacecraft from landing on the Moon.
Top Harvard cancer researchers accused of scientific fraud; 37 studies affected
Researchers accused of manipulating data images with copy-and-paste.
Megalodon wasn’t as chonky as a great white shark, experts say
Fresh evidence points to megalodon being longer, more slender than previous depictions.
Google lays off “dozens” from X Labs, wants projects to seek outside funding
Google wants projects to take outside venture capital as part of budget cuts.
Robocall with artificial Joe Biden voice tells Democrats not to vote
Fake Biden voice urges New Hampshire Democrats to skip tomorrow's primary.
Meta relents to EU, allows unlinking of Facebook and Instagram accounts
New standalone Messenger, Marketplace, and Gaming apps coming to the EU, too.
Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service
AST SpaceMobile gets $206.5 million and is partnering with Google and AT&T.
HP CEO evokes James Bond-style hack via ink cartridges
"Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription."
Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds
Create a bootable, working Pokemon game by recording it crash multiple times.
Will demand for the Volkswagen ID Buzz outstrip supply?
The reimagined Microbus appeals to a far wider crowd than just car enthusiasts.
NASA loses, and then recovers, contact with its historic Mars helicopter
Ingenuity has been flying above Mars, off and on, for nearly three years.
What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he’s not coming back?
"If you guys don't give me a chance to repair my instrument, I'm not going back."
What happens when you trigger a car’s automated emergency stopping?
Experiencing the sequence of events in a car programmed for automated emergency stopping.
Microsoft network breached through password-spraying by Russia-state hackers
Senior execs' emails accessed in network breach that wasn't caught for 2 months.
Elizabeth Holmes barred from federal health programs for 90 years
Former Theranos CEO barred from receiving payments from federal health programs.
WordPad out; 80Gbps USB support and other Win 11 features in testing this month
Microsoft's next batch of Windows 11 feature updates is taking shape.
Big Pharma hiked the price of 775 drugs this year so far: Report
Meanwhile, Senate to consider subpoenas to force pharma CEOs to testify on prices.
Everything we learned today about Vision Pro configurations, specs, and accessories
It'll cost you $200 to double the storage of the base configuration.
Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list
"The man I am now would do things very differently," Reiser says in long letter.
Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations
The big conclusion: "If bigfoot is there, it could be a bear."
Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.
Amazon’s purchase of Roomba-maker iRobot likely to be blocked by EU
Amazon was told at meeting that deal is likely to be rejected, WSJ reports.
Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says
Study finds "search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam."
Ford’s CEO gives us a ride in the crazy electric transit Supervan 4.2
You don't often get the head of the company giving rides in an EV demonstrator.
Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start”
Software bugs were hidden from lawyers of wrongly convicted UK postal workers.
Archaeologists discover intact medieval gauntlet at Kyburg Castle
The team also unearthed fragments of the glove's companion, worn on the opposite hand.
The 2024 Kia EV9, an electric three-row SUV designed with the US in mind
Kia bets on edgy design, a futuristic interior, and plenty of interior space.
$40 billion worth of crypto crime enabled by stablecoins since 2022
Stablecoins like Tether also used for scams and sanctions evasion.
Japan’s space agency “checking status“ of Moon lander
SLIM attempted to land on the Moon with a precision of less than 100 meters.
Rocket Report: A new estimate of Starship costs; Japan launches spy satellite
One space tug company runs into financial problems; another says go big or go home.
Axiom, SpaceX launch third all-private crew mission to space station
A US-Spanish dual citizen commands a crew of Italian, Swedish, and Turkish astronauts.
DeepMind AI rivals the world’s smartest high schoolers at geometry
DeepMind solved 25 out of 30 questions-compared to 26 for a human gold medalist.
Zuckerberg’s AGI remarks follow trend of downplaying AI dangers
Zuckerberg and Altman both tamp down fear and hype with casual statements about AGI.
Amazon plans to charge for Alexa in June—unless internal conflict delays revamp
Report claims Amazon is struggling to build a subscription version of Alexa.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a new first-person Nazi-whipping journey
Modern action/FPS is set inside Indy's classic post-Ark, pre-Crusade era.
Samsung’s $1,300 phone might someday have fees for AI usage
Samsung says Galaxy S24 AI features are "free until the end of 2025."
Bing Search shows few, if any, signs of market share increase from AI features
Bing's US and worldwide market share is about the same as it has been for years.
Netflix won’t have a Vision Pro app, compromising the device’s appeal
You'll be able to watch via the web browser, but that's far from ideal.
Google lays off 100 at YouTube; CEO says more layoffs are coming
Sundar Pichai tells employees to brace for "tough choices... throughout the year."
Game developer survey: 50% work at a studio already using generative AI tools
But 84% of devs are at least somewhat concerned about ethical use of those tools.
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