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Meet Ghostwriter, a haunted AI-powered typewriter that talks to you
Custom typewriter hack uses Arduino, Rapsberry Pi, and GPT-3 to dramatic effect.
The day the plastic music died: Epic shutting down Rock Band and other servers
Rock Band, Unreal, and other games at Epic lose online services on Jan. 24.
Scientists discover a new supergroup of rare single-celled predators
Rare microbes form two branches of a supergroup, a classification above kingdoms.
Musk may try to deny severance to thousands laid off by Twitter, report says
Musk's attorney, Alex Spiro, out but still representing Twitter on pending cases.
“Impossible” to track: China gives up on COVID case count amid explosive outbreak
In an abrupt reversal, China ended mandatory testing last week.
YouTube moderation bots will start issuing warnings, 24-hour bans
New automated moderation program does not seem to allow for human intervention.
Diplodocus may have been one cool dinosaur—thanks to its skin
A skin of porous scales may have helped keep dinosaurs' metabolism from overheating.
Subaru warns Ascent owners to park outside due to fire risk
Subaru is recalling 271,694 2019–2022 Ascent SUVs due to faulty heater wiring.
Twitter suspends @ElonJet plane-tracking bot after Musk pledged to leave it up
Twitter claims Musk plane bot broke the rules but lets Gates and Zuck bots stay up.
Tesla rolls out Steam game support for newest vehicle models
Over 6,000 "Deck Verified" games are now playable on the 17-inch central console.
Record lows on the Mississippi: How climate change is altering large rivers
Water levels in some of the world's largest rivers have hit record lows in 2022.
“Pure and deadly greed”: Lawmakers slam Pfizer’s 400% price hike on COVID shots
Senators Warren and Welch urged Pfizer to back down from "unseemly profiteering."
Space debris expert: Orbits will be lost—and people will die—later this decade
"Flexing geopolitical muscles in space to harm others has already happened."
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer wows with 6 distinct animation styles
Another sequel is already in the works, along with a Spider-Woman spinoff film.
Lensa AI app causes a stir with sexy “Magic Avatar” images no one wanted
Early reports said the app unwantedly sexualized depictions of women using the app.
TikTok would be banned from US “for good” under bipartisan bill
Lawmakers liken TikTok's widening influence in the US to "digital fentanyl."
Only iPhones that can’t run iOS 16 are getting new iOS 15 updates
iPhone 6S, iPhone 7, and the last iPod Touch shift to security-only update model.
Report: Apple plans to support sideloading and third-party app stores by 2024
Europe's Digital Markets Act was the catalyst.
Doc raked in $3.3M in wild spinal surgery scam, gets 5 years in prison
Patients left in "mental anguish" wondering "whether they needed a surgery."
Microsoft digital certificates have once again been abused to sign malware
Code-signing is supposed to make people safer. In this case, it made them less so.
iOS 16.2, macOS 13.1 released with new collaboration features and other updates
Smaller updates for watchOS, tvOS, and HomePod software are also available.
Google’s Black Friday deals are back, including that $299 Pixel 6a deal
Get $100-$150 off a Pixel phone, $50 off the watch, $10 off a Chromecast.
Marvel’s Midnight Suns gets a big boost on PC when 2K’s launcher is removed
One PC gaming pro gained more than 60 percent in frames per second by killing it.
Bill Nelson came to NASA to do two things, and he’s all out of bubblegum
Working with Congress? "It's easy as pie."
Reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes
Add to a charity haul that has raised over $6,500 in just 5 days.
What enabled the big boost in fusion energy announced this week?
Two megajoules of laser yielded three megajoules of fusion energy.
Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in Bahamas, charged with “massive” crypto fraud in US
FTX founder charged with fraud, money laundering, campaign finance violations.
US COVID death toll would be 4X higher without vaccines, modeling study finds
Shots also cut millions of hospitalizations and $1.5 trillion in medical bills.
Twitter ditches Trust and Safety Council as Musk tweets fuel harassment
Twitter thanks the council for their service, while members fear retaliation.
After Russia’s exit from the Lunar Gateway, NASA has found a new partner in UAE
The United Arab Emirates is a founding member of the Artemis Accords.
China hits back at US chip sanctions with WTO dispute
Beijing defends "legitimate rights" in response to Washington’s semiconductor controls.
Plugable’s USB dongle is yet another cheap way to add Bluetooth 5.0 to your PC
Windows 11 and 10 only.
Here’s how Honda’s next electric SUV was designed during the pandemic
Behind the scenes at Honda’s VR studio and its "Google Built-In" experience.
Mercedes built a concept car for Avatar, and we drove it
The collaboration may seem odd, but it made sense after we drove it.
“Fake” Roman coins authenticated, bearing likeness of lost Roman emperor
Analysis reignites debate over existence of 3rd-century CE emperor named Sponsian.
Effective, fast, and unrecoverable: Wiper malware is popping up everywhere
Wiper malware from no fewer than 9 families has appeared this year. Now there are 2 more.
Officials, experts call for masking as illnesses slam US ahead of holidays
Nearly 10% of US counties have "high" transmission levels and should be masking.
Chrome’s “Manifest V3” plan to limit ad-blocking extensions is delayed
Manifest V3 transition is delayed again to the relief of Chrome users everywhere.
China bans AI-generated media without watermarks
China regulates generative AI tech with rules that aim to spur growth and ban deception.
DOJ divided over charging Binance for alleged crypto crimes, report says
Illicit funds processed by Binance in 2022 allegedly amounted to $10 billion.
Xiaomi’s new phone takes a ton of inspiration from Apple, as usual
Xiaomi's 2023 flagship falls back into old habits.
The Moon landing was faked, and wind farms are bad
In Germany, opposition to wind farms correlated with conspiratorial thinking.
Leaked email shows Musk threatened to sue Twitter employees who leak to media
Musk email complains of "many detailed leaks of confidential Twitter information."
NASA official “very confident” Artemis spacesuits will be ready on time
"They have invested a lot of their own money into the suits."
Ubisoft won’t bring its Assassin’s Creed Valhalla achievements to Steam
Since-deleted forum post suggested "no current plans" to bring them over.
Support for Windows 7 and 8 fully ends in January, including Microsoft Edge
Even businesses that will pay for it won't get new Windows 7 security updates.
GM and LG get $2.5 billion battery loan from the Department of Energy
11,000 new jobs will be created in Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee.
Raspberry Pi inventory improving, could reach pre-pandemic levels in 2023
"Hundreds of thousands" of Pi Zero, 3A+, and 4 models should show up next year.
Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes
First-ever net-energy gain from fusion raises hopes for zero-carbon alternative.
Radeon 7900 XTX and XT review: Faster, hotter, and cheaper than the RTX 4080
New $899 and $999 GPUs maintain the status quo in the Nvidia-AMD rivalry.
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