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The race to save Florida’s coral reef from hot ocean waters
Coral reef nurseries are being moved to deeper waters-or back into giant tanks on land.
How we host Ars, the finale and the 64-bit future
We wrap up our four-part series by tying up loose ends and looking ahead.
NASA’s Artemis II crew meets their Moonship
NASA's Orion spacecraft is taking a bit longer to prepare for its first crew flight.
New LG TVs relegate I/O to a box you can set 30 feet from the screen
Wireless-ish-but TV and port box still need power cords.
Florida man gets unexplained leprosy case; doctors suspect local soil
Leprosy is not very contagious, and the CDC has not issued a travel advisory.
Author discovers AI-generated counterfeit books written in her name on Amazon
Amazon resisted a removal request, citing lack of "trademark registration numbers."
With new Game Controller app, Netflix games move from mobile to the TV
The streamer promises you'll be able to use it to play games on your TV soon.
Valve starts selling refurbished Steam Decks for up to $130 less than new models
Refurb units "meet or even exceed performance standards of new retail units."
Google, record labels working on deal covering musical “deepfakes”
Prepare for more cover songs like Johnny Cash singing Barbie Girl.
Banks fined $549M after senior execs found secretly texting on Signal, WhatsApp
Banks have been fined more than $2.5 billion for violating record-keeping laws.
Disney explores cutting costs through AI use
House of Mickey hopes AI will help control soaring TV and film production costs.
What does it take to get AI to work like a scientist?
Getting AI to find scientific laws sometimes works, but it's a long way from science.
Developer logs reveal more details about next-gen Apple M3 and M3 Max chips
Compared to M2 Max, M3 Max could come with four more high-performance cores.
Pope warns of AI risks so “violence and discrimination does not take root”
Papal communique warns of AI produced "at the expense of the most fragile and excluded."
Amazon gets “last rites” from FTC as antitrust complaint looks imminent
FTC's lawsuit is likely to be filed in federal court this month.
Here’s how ChargePoint plans to increase EV charger reliability
A new Network Operations Center is aimed to bring ChargePoint close to 100% uptime.
The helicopter on Mars just flew again after surviving an emergency landing
"The helicopter worked as planned and executed an immediate landing."
Rogue planets may be more numerous than stars in our galaxy
Planets cast loose from their exosolar system are remarkably common.
Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim and hero of many developers
The open source software legend left us on August 3 at age 62.
General Motors will add bidirectional charging to its Ultium-based EVs
The rollout starts with 2024 models, including the Silverado and Blazer EVs.
Crucial early-warning listserv for tracking disease outbreaks is in danger
ProMED, which broke news of COVID, SARS, and MERS, is short on cash and in turmoil.
Efficient motors and LFP batteries will power this new medium-duty truck
Motiv has been making electric powertrains for other chassis for 14 years now.
New SARS-CoV-2 variant gains dominance in US amid mild summer COVID wave
Absolute numbers are low, but several indicators show pandemic virus is on the rise.
Starliner undergoing three independent investigations as flight slips to 2024
"The design changes were, I would say, minimal."
Zoom has “Zoom fatigue,” requires workers to return to the office
Zoom surprisingly decides its teams are more effective working in-office.
Report: Apple buys every 3 nm chip that TSMC can make for next-gen iPhones and Macs
TSMC is said to eat the cost of defective chips so it can keep Apple's business.
Dealmaster: Save on Apple gear, Lenovo laptops, PlayStation 5, and more
Get ready for dorm move-in day with savings on great tech!
In win for Google, judge dismisses many claims in DOJ monopoly case
Six claims dismissed ahead of the September trial.
Innocent pregnant woman jailed amid faulty facial recognition trend
US police departments continue to use the tech despite low accuracy and obvious mismatches.
AI researchers claim 93% accuracy in detecting keystrokes over Zoom audio
Mitigating factors include typing style, multi-case passwords, uncommon laptops.
Amazon shifts launch of its first Internet satellites to Atlas V rocket
The Kuiper test satellites were supposed to launch on ULA's first Vulcan rocket.
The 2023 Toyota bZ4x: A bouncy ride meets rather good efficiency
We try the electroskeptical automaker's first purpose-built battery-electric vehicle.
Physicists achieve fusion with net energy gain for second time
Initial data shows an energy output greater than 3.5 megajoules.
Turning my Framework laptop into a tiny desktop was fun. Now it needs a job.
Tinkering with the other side of an upgradeable laptop: the left-behind bits.
SpaceX conducts a mostly successful test of its Super Heavy booster
There were positives and negatives to be taken away from the test firing.
T cells burn out just a few hours after encountering cancer tumors
Why do T cells become exhausted within a few hours of bumping into cancer?
Review: Oppenheimer is pure visual poetry
Technically it's a biopic, but it doesn't play like one.
What are “drainer smart contracts” and why is the FBI warning of them?
Scam sites often pose as outlets selling non-fungible tokens.
A look at the surprising history of the earliest rocket pioneers
A review of the book From the Earth to Mars.
Unlimited miles and nights: Vulnerability found in rewards programs
Points.com, used by major travel rewards programs, exposed user data... and more.
X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his @music account
X user quits paying for Twitter Blue to protest X commandeering his account.
Voyager 2 phones home and says everything is cool
After sending the command, NASA had to wait 37 hours for a response.
“Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale
No security or feature updates, but selling as "new."
Jeanette Epps will finally go to space six years after being pulled from flight
NASA removed Epps from her first crew assignment in 2018 without explanation.
FCC prepares $75 monthly broadband subsidies for “high-cost” areas
$75 low-income subsidy targets areas where ISPs face "economic hardship."
Asahi Linux’s new “flagship” distro for M-series Macs is a Fedora Remix
An "upstream-first" effort on a more familiar platform.
Cortana, once a flagship feature of Windows phones, is slowly being shut down
Cortana will remain in Teams and Outlook, for now, but is going away in Windows.
Dude, what are those humongous plasma waves in Jupiter’s atmosphere?
Plasma collisions in the outer edges of Jupiter's magnetosphere produce big waves.
GameStop, citing “regulatory uncertainty,” winds down its crypto and NFT wallet
Layoffs from late last year may have hinted at company's drift away from crypto.
Qualcomm—one of Arm’s biggest customers—starts a RISC-V joint venture
The joint venture will first target automotive, with IoT and mobile coming later.
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