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What’s inside the US’s first big climate bill?
Tax credits, grants, and more to boost renewable and clean technology.
OctaGlove brings the underwater gripping power of the octopus to humans
Octopus combines "tunability, sensing, and control" for efficient underwater adhesion.
Comcast stock falls as company fails to add Internet users for first time ever
Comcast started and ended Q2 with 32.2 million broadband subscribers.
New PS5 system software beta adds two of users’ most-requested features
The update is in beta now, but its features will go wide later this year.
Meta to double the dose of force-fed filler on Instagram, Facebook in 2023 [Updated]
Next year, TikTok-like content will dominate about a third of Meta user feeds.
As Intel gets into discrete GPUs, it scales back support for many integrated GPUs
Older Core and current Celeron and Pentium iGPUs move to "legacy" support model.
Google delays death of tracking cookies again, wants more time for “testing”
World's largest advertising company seems oddly reluctant to quit tracking cookies.
Earbud review: Google Pixel Buds Pro fall well short of their $200 price
Noise canceling is a welcome upgrade, but everything else, especially audio, is flat.
Jury sends message to Charter with $7 billion verdict over murder of customer
Charter was ruled negligent, but "breathtaking" punitive damages may be reduced.
Manchester City smart scarf wraps data-collecting sensors around fans’ necks
Hungry for data, soccer club pilots The Connected Scarf.
The players are the problem: Community managers complain of excessive harassment
Some Destiny 2 and Minecraft players seem to be taking their fandom too far.
You won’t be confused about electric vehicle charging after reading this
Charging an EV is not nearly as complicated as people think.
Carbon offsets alone won’t make flying climate-friendly
Exhaust contains a host of polluting particles, from soot to nitrogen oxides.
FDA’s top tobacco scientist takes job at Marlboro-maker Philip Morris
This is Philip Morris' second FDA hire recently.
Study sheds light on how dogs recognize their favorite toys
Dogs construct "multisensory mental representations" by encoding different features.
Zuckerberg: Apple, Meta are in “deep, philosophical competition”
Zuckerberg positioned Meta's XR platform as the successor to Windows, Android.
FTC says Meta’s Supernatural purchase could ruin the VR fitness market
Overlap with Beat Saber would bring Meta "closer to... owning the entire 'Metaverse.'"
0-days sold by Austrian firm used to hack Windows users, Microsoft says
Windows and Adobe Reader exploits said to target orgs in Europe and Central America.
Meta thinks Facebook may need more “harmful health misinformation” [Updated]
The oversight board is now fielding public comments on potential policy change.
Today’s best deals: Google Nest Hub, Apple TV 4K, and more
Dealmaster also has the Switch Lite, Bose QuietComfort 45, and a bunch of AMD Ryzen CPUs.
Twitter has one more task before Musk trial: Get shareholder approval
Sept. 13 shareholder vote is the "only remaining approval" needed for Musk deal.
Google Maps is getting 3D imagery on mobile, detailed biking info, and more
Google Maps takes the "first step" toward the SimCity-like Immersive View.
Sylvester Stallone is a grizzled, disillusioned superhero in Samaritan trailer
"Things start to fall apart when you stop caring. And I stopped caring a long time ago."
Spotify hits the brakes on Car Thing,halts production of its only hardware
Spotify's only hardware first released to the general public 5 months ago.
Astronomers have found an especially sneaky black hole
Discovery sheds light on star death, black hole formation, and gravitational waves.
Apple’s Virtualization framework is a great, free way to test new macOS betas
VirtualBuddy and other apps make it pretty easy to run macOS on top of macOS.
Newly found Lightning Framework offers a plethora of Linux hacking capabilities
This modular malware framework for Linux has gone undocumented until now.
Out of prison, Shkreli plans “Web3 drug discovery” platform backed by crypto
The venture tests the boundaries of his lifetime ban from the pharmaceutical industry.
One week later, astronomers find a galaxy even deeper back in time
How many galaxies should we see shortly after the Big Bang?
Logitech G715 hands-on: A strong typist with a polarizing look
Hands-on with one of Logitech's new colorful PC peripherals.
How to check a Chromebook’s specs, CPU usage, and more
Plus, how to enable Hyper-threading, GPU rasterization, and more.
CEO sold worthless crypto tokens and used proceeds for Hawaii condo, DOJ says
Man pleads guilty, DOJ said his crypto token "did not have any functionality."
Hulu’s “unwritten policy” on political censorship sparks backlash
Democrats call on Hulu to stop blocking political ads ahead of midterm election.
Pixel 6a teardown shows off bendy, plastic back, soldered-in USB-C port
One improvement over the bigger model: The battery comes out via pull tab.
How big is the risk that someone will hack an EV charging network?
EV chargers are on the spectrum of the Internet of Things, and that means risk.
Meta Quest 2 VR headset price jumps $100 to $399, gets zero new features
Bucks usual trend of 2-year-old hardware dropping in price, blames "rising costs."
2022 Audi Q4 e-tron: The electric crossover has been worth the wait
It's Audi's first luxury take on the MEB electric vehicle platform.
Russia says its Space Station partnership will end after two more years
The new head of Roscosmos continues the path set by his predecessor.
PSVR 2 gets some new improvements over Sony’s original headset
Passthrough video, automatic safety barriers, and more.
Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us
Turns out they're not all that rare. We just don't know how to find them.
Russia is quietly ramping up its Internet censorship machine
Russia has been pushing away from the global Internet at a rapid pace.
New hypothesis emerges to explain mysterious hepatitis cases in kids
Two viruses and a genetic predisposition linked to the puzzling condition in preliminary data.
Climate change is turning up the heat on lakes
Climate change is wreaking havoc on the planet's 117 million lakes.
NFL+ is here, but it’s probably not what you’re looking for
NFL streaming is still mired in a mess of tangled platform agreements.
2K relents to fans, turns servers back on for abandoned “4v1” online game
Online-only Evolve gets second lease on life, complete with matchmaking.
Motherboards are already supporting unreleased, unannounced 13th-gen Intel CPUs
The first "Raptor Lake" processors are expected sometime this fall.
T-Mobile to pay $500M for one of the largest data breaches in US history [Updated]
$350 million will go to customers and lawyers.
Banned from Minecraft, crypto group says it’ll just make a better game
NFT Worlds insists that Minecraft's grapes were probably sour anyway.
Global shortage of fiber-optic cable threatens digital growth
Rising prices of components cast shadow over 5G rollout and development of data centers.
Google fires Blake Lemoine, the engineer who claimed AI chatbot is a person
Google says Lemoine violated security rules, slams "wholly unfounded" claims.
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