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Death by neti pot: Why you shouldn’t use tap water to clean your sinuses
An alarming number of Americans think tap water is sterile-it's definitely not.
Bitcoin Fog operator convicted of laundering $400M in bitcoins on darknet
Roman Sterlingov will appeal, denouncing DOJ's crypto-tracing techniques.
Blue cheese shows off new colors, but the taste largely remains the same
Future varieties could be yellow-green, reddish-brown-pink, or light blue.
Unreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not taken
Microsoft's involvement in IBM's OS/2 project ended before v2.0 was released.
Meta sues “brazenly disloyal” former exec over stolen confidential docs
Meta's former exec allegedly shared data center secrets with a shadowy startup.
Google’s new gaming AI aims past “superhuman opponent” and at “obedient partner”
New model can respond to natural language commands, even on games it has never seen.
Google’s Gemini AI now refuses to answer election questions
Gemini is opting out of election-related responses entirely for 2024.
EU votes to ban riskiest forms of AI and impose restrictions on others
Lawmaker hails "world's first binding law on artificial intelligence."
Raspberry Pi-powered AI bike light detects cars, alerts bikers to bad drivers
Data from multiple Copilot devices could be used for road safety improvements.
Seeding steel frames brings destroyed coral reefs back to life
It won't help with heat-driven bleaching, but other human damage can be fixed.
What happens when ChatGPT tries to solve 50,000 trolley problems?
AI driving decisions are not quite the same as the ones humans would make.
Bill that could ban TikTok passes in House despite constitutional concerns
US much closer to banning TikTok, despite users' protests.
The science behind why people hate Daylight Saving Time so much
Can we use research and policy to change (or not change) the clocks for the last time?
Mining helium-3 on the Moon has been talked about forever—now a company will try
"There are so many investments that we could be making, but there are also Moonshots."
Harbinger delivers first customer electric truck chassis to RV maker Thor
Thor will develop a Class A motorhome with 250 miles of range on the chassis.
Here’s how much the Polestar 3 will cost when it goes on sale in Q2 2024
The first EVs will be Chinese-made, with production in South Carolina later this year.
Chicago battles measles with calls for vaccination—in contrast with Florida
US faces threat of measles resurgence amid global rise and declining vaccination.
IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states
Direct File has many limits, but nearly 19M people in 12 states may be eligible.
Abysmal revenue stats of 30K mobile apps show why devs keep pushing for subs
New apps reportedly make median monthly revenue of less than $50.
The 2024 Moto G Power packs wireless charging, 8GB RAM in a $300 phone
The 2024 Moto G starts arriving at the end of March at most budget carriers.
New iPads may be coming soon, but they won’t change the awkward spot the iPad is in
Op-ed: The iPad needs more than a simple hardware refresh to fix what ails it.
Apple to allow iOS app installs from websites, but small devs don’t qualify
To qualify, devs need an app installed by 1 million users in EU the prior year.
Study: Cicadas pee in jets, not droplets. Here’s why that’s kinda weird.
Come for the cicada video, stay for the scaling graphic of urination across animal kingdom.
NYT to OpenAI: No hacking here, just ChatGPT bypassing paywalls
OpenAI's claim that NYT hacked" ChatGPT is irrelevant" and false," NYT says.
Apple’s AirPods Pro could be getting a “hearing aid mode” later this year
In development for some time, AirPods could finally get the FDA label this fall.
Lost, circa-2008 Timesplitters 4 prototype discovered on PS3 dev kit
Redditor paid a reported $670 to rescue the unit and archive the game for posterity.
Some states are now trying to ban lab-grown meat
Spurious "war on ranching" cited as reason for legislation.
Daily Telescope: Gigantic new stars stir up a nebula
Astronomers know of no other region so packed with large stars as this nebula.
An EV that charges 30% faster? Volvo and Breathe think their tech can do it
Real-time battery-management algorithms on an embedded processor? Yes, please.
Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits
Discovery means that NerbianRAT is cross-platform used by for-profit threat group.
Study: Conflicting values for Hubble Constant not due to measurement error
Something else is influencing the expansion rate of the Universe.
NASA grapples with budget cuts as it undertakes ambitious programs
"Naturally, we have to make hard choices."
50 injured on Boeing 787 as “strong shake” reportedly sent heads into ceiling
LATAM Airlines said "technical event" in mid-flight "caused a strong movement."
Image-scraping Midjourney bans rival AI firm for scraping images
Midjourney pins blame for 24-hour outage on "bot-net like" activity from Stability AI employee.
Airbnb bans creepy surveillance cameras inside rentals starting April 30
Indoor cameras had been permitted in "common areas."
Researchers resurrect long-extinct fossil creature as a robot
Robot designed to mimic enigmatic sea creature can help us understand how it moved.
Texas can require age-verification on porn sites, 5th Circuit judges rule
One judge dissents, saying Texas law "limits adults' access to protected speech."
Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”
Bad radio propagation means Googlers are making do with Ethernet cables, phone hotspots.
Nvidia sued over AI training data as copyright clashes continue
Copyright suits over AI training data reportedly decreasing AI transparency.
Here’s how the makers of the “Suyu” Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued
Dev says project is "in a legal gray area we are trying to work our way out of..."
M3 MacBook Air refresh boosts storage speeds for 256GB models
For the M2 Air, getting better storage speeds required a 512GB (or larger) SSD.
After coming back from the dead, the world’s largest aircraft just flew a real payload
Falling just short of hypersonic velocity.
OpenAI CEO Altman wasn’t fired because of scary new tech, just internal politics
As Altman cements power, OpenAI announces three new board members-and a returning one.
Apple and Tesla feel the pain as China opts for homegrown products
Local competition, surge of BEVs, and security-related restrictions lead to changes.
Here’s Porsche’s newest EV, the 1,000-horsepower Taycan Turbo GT
The new EV has set lap records at Laguna Seca and the Nurburgring.
Op-ed: Charges against journalist Tim Burke are a hack job
Burke was indicted after sharing outtakes of a Fox News interview.
Shields up: New ideas might make active shielding viable
Active shielding was first proposed in the '60s. We're finally close to making it work.
Sixty Four is a beautiful system design toy that reveals something rather dark
Please do not load up this game if you have real tasks to accomplish, I beg you.
These scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used
Telltale fractures and microscopic wear marks should be applicable to real artifacts.
Florida middle-schoolers charged with making deepfake nudes of classmates
AI tool was used to create nudes of 12- to 13-year-old classmates.
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