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Oppo’s Find X7 Ultra has four 50 MP sensors, two periscope lenses
Pick from a 50 MP 3x telephoto with a huge sensor or a 50 MP 6x telephoto.
The situation with Astrobotic’s lunar lander appears to be quite dire
"We do not expect every launch and landing to be successful."
iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall after door plug blows off Alaska Air flight 1282
Still-working iPhone is one of two discovered after the airline accident, says NTSB.
They’re not cheap, but Nvidia’s new Super GPUs are a step in the right direction
RTX 4080, 4070 Ti, and 4070 Super arrive with price cuts and/or spec bumps.
Apple Vision Pro will launch Feb. 2, preorders start Jan. 19
Package includes 256GB storage and two headstraps; prescription lenses run $149.
Volkswagen is adding ChatGPT to its infotainment system
VW is using Cerence's Chat Pro, which now incorporates ChatGPT.
$329 Radeon 7600 XT brings 16GB of memory to AMD’s latest midrange GPU
Updated 7600 XT also bumps up clock speeds and power requirements.
AMD launches Ryzen 8000G desktop CPUs, with updated iGPUs and AI acceleration
But high platform costs make an iGPU-powered gaming desktop an iffy proposition.
AMD releases even more Ryzen 5000 CPUs, keeps its last-gen AM4 platform alive
New-old chips stick with the aging Zen 3, but could be good CPU upgrade options.
AI firms’ pledges to defend customers from IP issues have real limits
Indemnities offered by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are narrow.
ULA’s Vulcan rocket shot for the Moon on debut launch—and hit a bullseye
ULA's Vulcan rocket flew straight and true right out of the gate.
Daily Telescope: The Wizard Nebula captured above Germany
The stars in this cluster are estimated to be about 4 to 12 million years old.
What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks
Pi 5's speed makes it a useful and usable general-purpose desktop, with limits.
Navajo objection to flying human ashes to the Moon won’t delay launch
"They're not going to remove the human remains and keep them here on Earth."
East Coast land continues to collapse at a worrying rate
It's steadily sinking or subsiding, which is destabilizing levees, roads, and airports.
Big evolutionary change tied to lots of small differences
Lots of genes changed as a species of snail went from laying eggs to live births.
Here’s a first look at United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan rocket
ULA's first flight-ready Vulcan rocket is finally on the launch pad.
Experimental antibiotic kills deadly superbug, opens whole new class of drugs
The relatively large molecule clogs a transport system, leading to lethal toxicity.
Ivanti warns of critical vulnerability in its popular line of endpoint protection software
Customers of the Ivanti Endpoint Protection Manager should patch or mitigate ASAP.
Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal
Classics like the Ergonomic Keyboard should be available again this year.
Android users could soon replace Google Assistant with ChatGPT
The Android ChatGPT app is working on support for Android's assistant APIs.
Notre Dame cathedral first to use iron reinforcements in 12th century
Devastating 2019 fire gave scholars access to previously hidden parts of the cathedral.
Elon Musk drops price of X gold checks amid rampant crypto scams
Reports come the same week X reduced the cost of buying gold checkmarks.
Flurry of firmware updates makes Analogue Pocket an even better retro handheld
Display filters for FPGA cores, custom Game Boy color palettes, and more.
A complete (so far) Star Citizen ship collection now costs $48,000
Ars analysis finds per-ship costs have come down slightly, in real terms.
Consumer group wants to end $255M “gift card loophole” for Starbucks and others
Changes to Washington's gift card laws could affect cardholders nationwide.
How much detail is too much? Midjourney v6 attempts to find out
As Midjourney rolls out new features, it continues to make some artists furious.
Clicks is a $139 iPhone case for people who hate touchscreen typing
Each key has 0.22 mm of travel.
SpaceX sues US labor board, claims agency structure is unconstitutional
NLRB sued by SpaceX after accusing the company of illegally firing employees.
As Vulcan nears debut, it’s not clear whether ULA will live long and prosper
This marks an absolutely pivotal moment for the 20-year-old launch company.
A week with a Ford F-150 Lightning: This truck is too big for city life
The big electric pickup truck is out of the suburbs and out of its element.
Daily Telescope: A crab found in the night sky rather than the world’s oceans
Oh, to have seen this supernova back in the day.
Rocket Report: SpaceX’s record year; Firefly’s Alpha rocket falls short
Living downrange from one of China's launch sites sure doesn't seem safe.
Elon Musk: SpaceX needs to build Starships as often as Boeing builds 737s
"Ship production needs to be roughly an order of magnitude higher than booster production."
A “ridiculously weak“ password causes disaster for Spain’s No. 2 mobile carrier
BGP tampering caused by poor security hygiene causes major outage for Orange Espana.
1D Pac-Man is the best game I’ve played in 2024 (so far)
An appreciation of "small games" and the people who make them.
How to avoid the cognitive hooks and habits that make us vulnerable to cons
Psychologists behind "invisible gorilla" study are back with a new book: Nobody's Fool.
Portal 64 is an N64 demake of Valve’s classic, now available as a “First Slice”
It's shocking how good the Portal Gun feels on late 1990s tech.
Wearable solar-powered gadget automatically regulates body temperature
Made of flexible polymers, it could potentially fit in technical clothing.
TurboTax maker Intuit’s $100 million tax credits challenged by US lawmakers
Senators want full accounting of research expenses behind "massive tax breaks."
23andMe told victims of data breach that suing is futile, letter shows
Victims are still arguing that 23andMe's security measures were inadequate.
All Science journals will now do an AI-powered check for image fraud
It will only catch the most blatant problems, but it's definitely overdue.
Qualcomm’s XR2+ Gen 2 SoC sets up a wave of Apple Vision Pro competitors
Qualcomm says five companies are working on new headsets.
Technical headaches put the brakes on GM’s big EV push
GM sold a record number of EVs in 2023, but only thanks to the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV.
Daily Telescope: A view of our star as Earth reaches perihelion
There is a bit of irony for those of us who live in the Northern Hemisphere.
Vectrex reborn: How a chance encounter gave new life to a dead console
40 years later, it's time for the Vectrex to shine.
The Dell XPS laptop, as we know and love it, is no more
2024 laptops all look like the XPS 13 Plus. XPS 15, 17, and 2-in-1 going away.
Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.
Mandiant, the security firm Google bought for $5.4 billion, gets its X account hacked
Scammer impersonates legitimate cryptocurrency wallet, then pivots to trolling Mandiant.
Forget the proverbial wisdom: Opposites don’t really attract, study finds
Educational attainment, substance use were most common shared traits among couples.
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