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What do you get when you cross an e-bike with a supercar?
The Vintage Roadster offers a load of performance in a gorgeous package.
Filthy floodwaters from Hurricane Ian drove wave of flesh-eating infections
Health officials warn those in floodwaters to cover open wounds.
Another casualty of the pandemic: Our ability to worry about anything else
Mid-pandemic tweeting suggests we have what's called a "finite pool of worry."
USB-C can hit 120Gbps with newly published USB4 Version 2.0 spec
USB-IF's new USB-C spec supports up to 120Gbps across three lanes.
Reform Section 230, punish users spreading online hate: New York AG
Recommendations come after an investigation into the Buffalo mass shooting.
Lost something? Search through 91.7 million files from the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s
Discmaster lets you sift through 11 terabytes of CD-ROM and floppy disk archives.
US citizen got 16 years in Saudi Arabian prison for tweets, his son says
Son of 72-year-old in Saudi prison says Biden admin did little to help.
Report: Google “doubles down” on Pixel hardware, cuts Google Assistant support
Is the Google Assistant in trouble? It's true that it doesn't make any money...
Mercedes-Benz’s new sound system could finally push music beyond stereo
Why Dolby Atmos in a car is more than a gimmick.
Meta grudgingly agrees to sell Giphy after admitting defeat in UK battle
Giphy is worried that GIFs becoming "cringe" will “dampen investor appetite.”
Apple drops Lightning and home button from the base iPad, announces M2 iPad Pro
Also: iPadOS 16 launches October 24.
Musk to seek Starlink donations after withdrawing request for Ukraine funding
SpaceX "will add a donate option to Starlink" for places in need, Musk wrote.
New Apple TV 4K, powered by A15 chip, adds storage and HDR10+
More storage for less, but a notable Ethernet/Thread split between models.
Toyota was a hybrid pioneer with the Prius but struggles to leap to electric
Toyota botched the rollout of its first EV.
Apple will release macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16 on October 24
Updates drop support for several generations of older hardware, too.
Experts grade Big Tech on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation
Experts on social media grade readiness of Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube.
Better than a V12: Rolls-Royce’s first EV is the 2024 Spectre coupe
Smooth, silent electric motors will only make Rolls-Royce's cars better.
Cheaper hearing aids hit stores today, available over the counter for first time
Often thousands of dollars and prescription only, aids now start at $199 at Walmart.
What it takes to re-create Rings of Power title sequence with Chladni figures
British science communicator Steve Mould first explored patterns in 2016 viral video.
Coinbase users scammed out of $21M in crypto sue company for negligence
Nearly 100 users sue Coinbase for allegedly overlooking security flaw.
Nvidia’s last-minute 12GB RTX 4080 rebrand will be a pain for GPU makers
Nvidia will shoulder at least some of the costs of rebranding all of the GPUs.
Discord update adds activities, app directory, and cheaper Nitro subscription
For some communities, Discord has become an alternative to social media.
Build a shelf-size vintage computer museum made of paper
Artist's collection allows mini Apple II, C64, TRS-80—and more—for the cost of paper and ink.
Hacker gets discontinued P.T. running on unmodified PS5
New method relies on a transfer from a separate jailbroken system.
All DisplayPort 2.0 products are now DisplayPort 2.1, VESA says
VESA released DisplayPort 2.1 today, but you may already own certified products.
It’s the BOAT: Astronomers observe “brightest of all time” gamma-ray burst
It's a "once-in-a-century opportunity" to address fundamental questions of these bursts.
$399 Razer Edge tries to make Android gaming tablets happen
Plus it has Qualcomm's "new" (but actually old) Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 gaming chip.
37-year-old Amiga platform gets updates to Linux kernel, AmigaOS SDK
Amiga's big German conference also happened for the first time since COVID.
Kanye West to buy Parler, promises to protect “conservative opinions”
West's antisemitic posts got him locked out of Twitter and Instagram this month.
FedEx abandons its last-mile delivery robot program
A human in a FedEx uniform will deliver those packages for the foreseeable future.
Rent going up? One company’s algorithm could be why
YieldStar helps landlords set prices across the US, likely harming competition.
Comcast wanted $210,000 for Internet—so this man helped expand a co-op fiber ISP
Fed up with Comcast and AT&T, Silicon Valley residents started their own network.
“The hell with it”—Elon Musk to keep funding Ukrainian Starlink service [Updated]
"we'll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free."
New, transparent AI tool may help detect blood poisoning
The algorithm scans electronic records and may reduce sepsis deaths.
Removing notes from Mendelssohn overture shows plight of humpback whales
Hebrides Redacted is meant to show "how human activities have silenced nature.”
Since Crew Dragon’s debut, SpaceX has flown more astronauts than anyone
"Thank you for an incredible ride up to orbit and an incredible ride home."
Apple’s AR/VR headset will scan your iris when you put it on
Apple's headset will also scan users' legs for inclusion in virtual space.
AT&T to pay $23M fine for bribing powerful lawmaker’s ally in exchange for vote
AT&T said it's "committed to ensuring that this never happens again."
Equifax surveilled 1,000 remote workers, fired 24 found juggling two jobs
Equifax used its own worker surveillance product to spy on workers fired.
BA.5 is finally fading—sublineages BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 rise from variant stew
BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 now account for 1-in-10 US COVID infections.
The Pixel 7 tests out 64-bit-only Android, can’t run 32-bit apps
64-bit only Android promises better performance and security, if we can get there.
Dwarf Fortress, the most inscrutable game of two decades, is getting a tutorial
Start off in a mineral-rich play area with hints, rather than primordial chaos.
Brazil court orders Apple to reimburse customers for charger-less iPhones
iPhones sold without chargers is an "abusive practice," São Paulo judge says.
Nvidia will “unlaunch” the 12GB RTX 4080, says it’s “not named right”
Nvidia had taken heat for announcing two 4080 cards with wildly divergent specs.
Researchers make cyborg cockroaches that carry their own power packs
Solar cell and a battery can keep the cyborg's electronics running for weeks.
Only PC players need a registered phone number for Modern Warfare 2
Security measure comes on top of Ricochet's required kernel-level drivers.
How a Microsoft blunder opened millions of PCs to potent malware attacks
Microsoft said Windows automatically blocked dangerous drivers. It didn't.
TikTok made money from getting Syrian refugees to beg in livestreams
A BBC investigation found that TikTok was taking up to 70% of profits.
The next Ford Mustang won’t be easy to tune; blame cybersecurity
The price of digital security might be your new car eternally remaining stock.
Microsoft preps DirectStorage 1.1 with GPU decompression for faster game loads
Update is "coming soon" but requires use of all-new compression format.
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