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Report: Tim Cook overruled Apple design team’s request to delay XR headset
Article claims it’s about Cook’s legacy, but there may be more at play.
Florida surgeon general wrong on vaccines and bad at his job, CDC and FDA say
Ladapo has repeatedly peddled falsehoods about COVID-19 vaccines.
GM plans to let you talk to your car with ChatGPT, Knight Rider-style
It won't self-drive or fire missiles, but the AI might help you change a flat.
New data tracks failure rates of 13 SSD models, going back up to 4 years
Yearslong examination of thousands of boot drives provides unique perspective.
Floating solar panels could provide over a third of global electricity
Panels on reservoirs can keep enough water for 300 million people from evaporating.
Marvel angry about Ant-Man dialogue leak, demands names of Reddit and Google users
Reddit post linked to leak on Google Docs; Marvel tries to subpoena both firms.
Discord promises outraged users it won’t store call recordings—for now
Discord staff promises shocked Reddit users, "We are going to fix this."
Dealmaster: The latest desktop deals from HP, Dell, Acer, and more
Savings on productivity PCs, powerful gaming desktops, and everything in between.
Pixel Watch sales power Google to No. 2 in worldwide wearables marketshare
Canalys' marketshare charts show Google beating overall market decline.
Meta threatens to restrict news in Canada if it’s forced to pay publishers
Meta gave up this fight in Australia but is still battling US and Canada laws.
We need better crash test dummies, says Government Accountability Office
Current dummies don't give good data on women's risk of injuries, for example.
Why Sony says it can’t trust Microsoft’s Call of Duty offer? One word: Bethesda
Worries over "myriad ways Microsoft could circumvent its [cross-platform] obligations."
First Tesla, now Nissan: Another EV recall to replace a steering wheel
QC work at the port left some cars with incorrectly torqued steering wheel bolts.
Making sense of The Last of Us’s thrilling, affecting season finale
Kyle & Andrew try to separate the heroes from the anti-heroes.
Animal personalities can trip up science, but there’s a solution
Individual behavior patterns may skew studies, but a new approach could help.
A grasshopper-like soft material can jump 200 times above its thickness
Inspired by grasshoppers, the new material stores energy then uses it all at once.
Are we ethically ready to set up shop in space?
A new book asks hard questions about whether we've thought through life in space.
Get ready to meet the Chat GPT clones
A tidal wave of bots is on its way.
Apple, Atari, and Commodore, oh my! Explore a deluxe home vintage computer den
Brian Green re-lives the 1980s with dozens of fully operational vintage PCs at home.
Little rewards get people to see truth in politically unfavorable info
Even if you pay conservatives, they're not as good at IDing fake news as liberals.
The time has come: GitHub expands 2FA requirement rollout March 13
Certain types of users enroll first, but it will be universal by year's end.
North Korean hackers target security researchers with a new backdoor
Campaign uses carefully crafted LinkedIn accounts that mimic legit people.
YouTuber must pay $40K in attorneys’ fees for daft “reverse censorship” suit
Judge said the complaint from "Young Pharaoh" never had a chance of winning.
This Yellowstone hot spring’s rhythmic thump makes it a geo-thermometer
Silence intervals between the thumping reveal how much heat is entering Doublet Pool.
Congressman confronts FBI over “egregious” unlawful search of his personal data
Section 702 unlikely to be reauthorized without reforms to protect US citizens.
Stadia’s pivot to a cloud service has also been shut down
After Stadia's commercial failure, the pivot to Immersive Stream for Games is dead, too.
cURL, the omnipresent data tool, is getting a 25th birthday party this month
Founder will open a 25-year bottle of Scotch and chat about its history and future.
Silicon Valley Bank shut down by US banking regulators
Tech-focused lender faced deposit outflows, failed late attempt to raise new capital.
Sales of vinyl albums overtake CDs for the first time since the late ’80s
Streaming still accounts for 84% of music revenue, but vinyl is having a moment.
Spike in deadly strep infections linked to wave of flu, RSV in US kids
Group A strep is known to piggyback on viral infections.
The 2024 Ford Mustang is the next car to lose AM radio
If you listen to a lot of AM radio, the next Ford Mustang is not the car for you.
Apple, Foxconn convince Indian state to loosen labor laws
Lobbying leads to landmark legislation that anticipates iPhone production.
PlayStation’s new Discord integration is a key step for the cross-play dream
Before this week, there was no universal VoIP platform for online games.
Rocket Report: Boeing to bid SLS for military launch; Ariane chief says all is well
"We believe the proven SLS capabilities can be an asset."
Gun violence is the top killer of US kids—the pandemic made it worse
Researchers call for firearm policy changes and efforts to address structural racism.
Malware infecting widely used security appliance survives firmware updates
Update-resistant malware is part of a pattern by highly motivated threat actors.
Best standing desk accessories to get you on your feet
Combat fatigue and reap the benefits while you stand at work.
Apple Music Classical will give your smartphone some culture on March 28
Classical music app will be included with an Apple One or Apple Music sub.
After 6 long months, an Android phone finally cloned the iPhone 14
The Dynamic Island has shamelessly arrived in an Android phone as the "Mini Capsule."
Rare, pristine first edition of Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus up for sale
Edition will be exhibited at New York International Antiquarian Book Fair next month.
Has the generative AI pricing collapse already started?
OpenAI could be in a position to loss-lead until its competitors wither away.
Discord hops the generative AI train with ChatGPT-style tools
Discord rolling out AI chatbot, moderation, summaries, and avatar remixer features.
Microsoft’s Bing hits 100 million active users thanks to AI chat, Edge browser
"We are fully aware we remain a small, low, single digit share player."
HP outrages printer users with firmware update suddenly bricking third-party ink
HP's approach to DRM continues rubbing people the wrong way.
Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight ChatGPT
New directive gives Googlers 'months' to build AI into existing products.
Meeting the Inflation Reduction Act’s EV battery requirements will be hard
Some EV battery thresholds achievable—if US allies are way, way too generous
FBI finally admits to buying location data on Americans, horrifying experts
FBI director denied that the agency currently purchases location data.
Go ahead and unplug this door device before reading. You’ll thank us later.
The Akuvox E11 door phone/intercom is riddled with security holes.
The auto industry is pessimistic about 2030-2040 EV adoption timelines
An industry survey found only 39 percent thought going all-EV by 2040 was achievable.
Get ready for a flood of self-published games on the Epic Games Store
Previous "high-quality" curation replaced by access for anyone who can pay $100 fee.
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