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Caveat emptor: 90% of tattoo inks have unlabeled or mislabeled ingredients
Findings could help inform and shape emerging US policy on regulating tattoo inks.
Amazon to spend $1 billion on startups that combine AI with robots
We're also a long way off from replacing all humans."
Dark Forces Remastered makes a classic Star Wars shooter feel fast and fluid
A faithful but generous repackaging of LucasArts' early Doom-alike.
Review: AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE GPU doesn’t quite earn its “7900” label
New $549 graphics card is the more logical successor to the RX 6800 XT.
How strong is Nintendo’s legal case against Switch-emulator Yuzu?
Nintendo is "basically taking the position that emulation itself is unlawful."
Smallish car, biggish price—we try out the 2024 BMW X2 M35i
We drive the new Sports Activity Coupe, but there's no EV version for the US market.
OpenAI accuses NYT of hacking ChatGPT to set up copyright suit
OpenAI bizarrely" mischaracterizes hacking, NYT lawyer says.
It turns out that Odysseus landed on the Moon without any altimetry data
"Hours after we got off the launch pad, we almost lost the spacecraft."
After a decade of stops and starts, Apple kills its electric car project
Report claims Apple leadership worried profit margins simply wouldn't be there.
Brutally bludgeoned “Vittrup Man” went from forager to farmer before his death
The skull was shattered by at least eight blows before the body was tossed into a peat bog.
Hackers backed by Russia and China are infecting SOHO routers like yours, FBI warns
Six years on, routers remain a favorite post for concealing malicious activities.
Maybe, just maybe, Boeing’s Starliner will finally fly astronauts this spring
The first launch of astronauts on Boeing's Starliner capsule is targeted for April 22.
Nintendo’s lost 1990s “VR” console comes to 3DS thanks to a remarkable emulator
Stereoscopic emulator does what Nintendon't (anymore).
Judge issues restraining order keeping DOE from tracking bitcoin miners
The Department of Energy wants to know how 2% of the US's electricity is being used.
Amazon bricks long-standing Fire TV apps with latest update
Affected apps include programs that let you bypass the Fire OS home screen.
Samsung’s Galaxy Ring is Big Tech’s first swing at the smart ring market
Samsung showed off the ring behind a glass case and dripped out a few details.
Cops called after parents get tricked by AI-generated images of Wonka-like event
Dull in-person warehouse for kids doesn't live up to technicolor AI-generated promo images.
Apple under fire for disabling iPhone web apps—EU asks developers to weigh in
EU sent queries to Apple and app developers as Apple kills home screen web apps.
Meta will start collecting “anonymized” data about Quest headset usage
Info on hand/eye tracking, "physical environment," and more could be included.
Automotive crash testing just got harder in 2024—which OEMs did well?
Headlights, pedestrian detection, and backseat safety all get more scrutiny.
How would an AI turn out if you raised it like a child?
Stick a camera on a child, then feed what it captures to an AI, and it almost works.
Varda’s drug-cooking Winnebago will be remembered as a space pioneer
A small capsule containing pharmaceuticals made in space landed in Utah last week.
New data shows which states were more deadly for pedestrians in 2023
Preliminary road-safety data for the first half of 2023 has been published.
SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it clears an FAA hurdle
"Several engines began shutting down before one engine failed energetically."
Kagan: Florida social media law seems like “classic First Amendment violation”
In oral arguments, Justice Thomas asks who speaks when an algorithm moderates.
Surprising link found between niacin and risk of heart attack and stroke
Breakdown products of niacin, aka Vitamin B3, may spur vascular inflammation.
Apple Vision Pro’s components cost $1,542—but that’s not the full story
The OLED displays account for more than a third of the component costs.
Wear OS “Hybrid” design has two OSes, two CPUs, “100 hour” battery life
Wear OS + Snapdragon uses too much power, so what if we just turned it off?
Sony claims to offer subs “appropriate value” for deleting digital libraries
Customers confused as Sony claims to work with affected users individually.
Age of Empires 2 gets another expansion 25 years later, and deservedly so
The rest of 2024 promises a whole lot for Age of Empires fans across all titles.
Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death
So what are we to make of this? Is Odysseus a success or a failure?
Why new fan blog “Final Fantasy VIII is the Best” is the best
A love letter to a bygone era of personal blogs and fan sites.
Windows security updates could come with fewer reboots beginning later this year
"Hotpatching" originated in Windows Server, cuts way down on update reboots.
The world’s largest battery in a smartphone—a 28,000 mAh, 27-mm-thick brick
The only downside: It's the size of three iPhones stacked on top of each other.
Unsealed court doc shows why Apple rejected Microsoft’s offer to buy Bing
Apple exec: Microsoft putting $100 billion into Bing was "not significant at all."
Ford’s wacky electric Supervan 4.2 sets a new lap record at Bathurst
With Romain Dumas behind the wheel, it lapped Mt Panorama in under 2 minutes.
Final images of Ingenuity reveal an entire blade broke off the helicopter
This new data should help us understand Ingenuity's final moments on Mars.
The Ford F-150 Lightning’s latest headache? A stop-ship order
The quality problem does not appear to affect EVs already at dealerships.
Daily Telescope: Finally, we’ve found the core of a famous supernova
In the astronomy community, SN 1987A has somewhat legendary status.
It’s no accident: These automotive safety features flopped
Over the years, inventors have had some weird ideas about how to make cars safer.
How your sensitive data can be sold after a data broker goes bankrupt
Sensitive location data could be sold off to the highest bidder.
Yelp: It’s gotten worse since Google made changes to comply with EU rules
Users are even more likely to stick with Google due to one change, says Yelp.
RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study
Data is consistent with bosses using RTO to reassert control and scapegoat workers.
Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students
Facial-recognition data is typically used to prompt more vending machine sales.
Plucky crew of Star Trek: Discovery seeks a strange artifact in S5 trailer
"It has been a hell of a journey. But everything ends someday."
Avast ordered to stop selling browsing data from its browsing privacy apps
Identifiable data included job searches, map directions, "cosplay erotica."
A giant meteorite has been lost in the desert since 1916—here’s how we might find it
A tale of "sand dunes, a guy named Gaston, secret aeromagnetic surveys, and camel drivers."
Here’s what we know after three days of Formula 1 preseason testing
There's a lot of streaming content for fans ahead of next weekend's race.
India’s plan to let 1998 digital trade deal expire may worsen chip shortage
Taxing exports of digital movies and games may not be worth sowing discord.
Can we drill for hydrogen? New find suggests additional geological source.
Problems at a chromium mine in Albania traced to nearly pure hydrogen in a fault.
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