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Amazon leaks Genesis Mini 2—Sega immediately confirms its October 27 launch
$104 system includes six-button gamepad; 23 Genesis, Sega CD games announced thus far.
Bayonetta 3 on Switch will include an optional “put on more clothes” mode
"Naive Angel Mode" designed for "play right in the living room" around children.
Light pollution is disrupting the seasonal rhythms of plants and trees
Nighttime light intensity lengthens pollen season in US cities.
Mourning parents asked TikTok for age verification, got maturity ratings instead [Updated]
Teen TikTokers will start seeing content ratings in the coming weeks.
High-fives, colorful hearts, and a horrible goose top a short list of new emoji
Unicode Consortium has recently sought to rein in the number of new emoji.
Prime Day’s best headphone deals include pairs we like from Sony, Beats, and Bose [Updated]
Our top picks for ANC headphones and true wireless earbuds are as cheap as we've seen.
Report: Apple and Jony Ive will no longer work together
Contract between Apple and LoveFrom ends after three years.
Polarized light reveals final fate of a star “spaghettified” by a black hole
It's “the first time anyone has deduced the shape of the gas cloud around a spaghettified star.”
And then there were five: NASA releases the rest of Webb’s first images
A day after the deep field of the early Universe, we have nebulas and an exoplanet.
Ongoing phishing campaign can hack you even when you’re protected with MFA
Campaign that steals email has targeted at least 10,000 organizations since September.
YouTube begins rolling out picture-in-picture on iPhones and iPads
iOS offered this capability for a while, but YouTube was slow to implement it.
This is why the pistol shrimp is immune to its own powerful shock waves
Anterior opening in orbital hoods helps redirect kinetic energy from the blasts.
Twitter sues Elon Musk, says he can’t “trash the company… and walk away”
Lawsuit: Musk's contractual breaches "cast a pall over Twitter and its business."
Gmail users “hard pass” on plan to let political emails bypass spam filters
The deadline to comment on "special treatment" for political emails is July 16.
Analysis: GameStop’s NFT marketplace earns the company just $45K in first day
After months of hype, the retailer may have missed the NFT gravy train.
Sonic Origins fan-made mod halted with three words: “Screw this game” [Updated]
Sega has so far left all versions of Origins unpatched since late-June launch.
Why don’t most foods cause allergies?
Proteins in food set off an immune response—but a feeble one.
Buying on a budget: The best Prime Day deals we can find for $50 or less
Featuring deals on Amazon devices, Jabra headphones, Tile trackers, and Logitech mice.
Feds may expand 2nd boosters to all adults as anxiety surges over BA.5 wave
Booster expansion could come within 2 weeks and wouldn't preclude fall booster.
No, BMW is not making heated seats a subscription for US cars
In Korea, BMW will let owners subscribe to options instead of buying them outright.
The Nothing Phone is official as a mid-ranger, with some lights on the back
OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei is back with a new company, but it has nothing to say.
Nikon will reportedly join Canon in ending development on high-end DSLR cameras
Smaller, lighter mirrorless cameras have mostly caught up to DSLR image quality.
Lawmakers tell Facebook to stop deleting abortion posts for no reason
Senators asked for receipts on how many posts were wrongly deleted.
Twitter tells Musk his “purported termination” of merger deal is invalid
Twitter sends letter slamming Musk in prelude to lawsuit.
AMD Chromebooks can dual-boot Windows 11, too
They'll need an SSD, though.
New working speculative execution attack sends Intel and AMD scrambling
Both companies are rolling out mitigations, but they add overhead of 12 to 28 percent.
Ars dives into the pricey-but-fancy world of miniature arcade cabinets
We put 1/6-scale cabs from New Wave Toys and their tiny joysticks to the test.
SpaceX starts testing its Super Heavy booster, and it’s “not good”
"Going forward, we won’t do a spin start test with all 33 engines at once."
Volkswagen partners with Redwood Materials to recycle EV batteries
Redwood is already recycling more than 6 GWh of lithium-ion batteries a year.
Prime Day’s best gaming deals: Free Mass Effect, lots of board games, and more
Notable discounts also include Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and several accessories we like.
What’s Bluetooth LE Audio? Explaining the spec and what it means for wireless sound
Spec completion signals better and, potentially, cheaper cable-free audio
Walmart is buying 4,500 electric delivery vehicles from Canoo
In January, Walmart ordered 5,000 BrightDrop EVs, now it's buying 4,500 Canoos.
Brain size vs. body size and the roots of intelligence
In birds, brains that expand after birth appear to be linked to creative behavior.
Russian “hacktivists” are causing trouble far beyond Ukraine
Pro-Russian group Killnet targeting countries supporting Ukraine, declaring "war."
The 7 best Prime Day deals on smartwatches and fitness trackers
Including a new low on the Apple Watch Series 7 and several sporty Garmin watches.
Webb’s first image reveals fine details of galaxies from billions of years ago
"This telescope is one of humanity's great engineering achievements."
Moderna to make two different omicron boosters: one for US, another for UK, EU
Moderna says its BA.1-targeting vaccine boosts protection against BA.4/5.
Apple releases first public betas for iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura, and more
Adventurous users can try the new features early, but standard caveats apply.
Uber emails: Exec admits “we’re not legal,” another claims we’re all “pirates”
An Uber data leak made public more than 124,000 confidential files.
macOS Ventura’s public beta is here. These are our favorite lesser-known features
New additions should especially please gamers and fans of Clarus the Dogcow.
Here’s one way we know that an EV’s battery will last the car’s lifetime
An electric vehicle's battery must be warrantied for 8 years or 100,000 miles.
Microsoft makes major course reversal, allows Office to run untrusted macros [Updated]
After saying macros were too dangerous for default running, Microsoft says "nevermind."
The Pixel 6 line gets steep discounts for Prime Day: Up to $200 off
Both phones are at their lowest prices ever ahead of the Pixel 6a launch.
Twitter gets ready to sue Elon Musk, hires elite merger law firm
Twitter will try to force Musk to complete $44 billion purchase.
Camo Sharks documents hunt for evidence that great white sharks change color
NatGeo's new documentary follows marine biologist Ryan Johnson's quest for evidence.
That Ubisoft DLC you purchased may soon be completely unplayable [Updated]
Pending server shutdown will leave PC players unable to access their content.
Richard Branson won the space tourism battle, but his company lost the war
"Blue Origin already won the suborbital space tourism race on July 20, 2021."
“Downright nasty” weather couldn’t stop the 100th Pikes Peak hillclimb
Some drivers dare to scale the summit in unique, vintage beasts.
Meta removes Facebook account mandate from Quest VR—but is that enough?
Op-ed: I welcome the removal of FB-VR mandate, but ToS still has me concerned.
Yet another omicron subvariant is raising concern as BA.5 sweeps the US
BA.2.75 is spreading quickly and widely. Three cases detected in US so far.
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