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Updated 2024-11-27 05:00
A Virginia company has connected mobile phones directly to satellites
Lynk will start with intermittent text messages and expand from there.
Physicists may have cracked the case of “Zen” stones balanced on ice pedestals
The stone creates shade, causing variations in sublimation of the surrounding ice.
Amazon’s indoor camera drone is ready to fly around your house
Amazon announces a million smart home devices.
Activision Blizzard settles discrimination lawsuit for a fraction of its yearly earnings
Compensation fund for affected employees is nothing compared to 2020's $8.1B revenue.
Forget the looks, love the tech: The $83,200 BMW iX electric SUV
The iX has a range of 300 miles and all of BMW's latest and greatest tech.
Tesla on Autopilot slammed into police cars despite flashing lights, lawsuit says
Officers say Tesla failed to detect four vehicles, six people, and a police dog.
Android 12.1 leak shows off iPad-style dock, dual-pane system UI
New dual-pane tablet interface splits UI right down the middle.
Amazon Halo View tracks your health on an OLED screen
Monitor your heart rate and other fitness metrics.
A new “standalone” Valve VR headset teased by deep SteamVR file dive
Some info has hidden in plain sight as far back as January—but will it ever launch?
Amazon’s Astro robot is straight out of The Jetsons
Amazon Astro will be available in limited quantities.
NBC demanded that YouTube TV bundle Peacock or lose access to NBC channels
YouTube TV could lose NBC channels when contract expires Thursday.
Amazon Echo Show 15 arrives with new Neural Edge processor
The next Echo Show should process things like speech and image recognition faster.
Ex-Fox host claims Facebook defamed him by fact-checking climate change videos
Former Fox Business host says his ad revenue has taken a hit.
Poll: 71% of unvaccinated say booster doses mean vaccines aren’t working
"We will not boost our way out of this pandemic."
Logitech thinks small with MX Keys Mini wireless keyboard
Multi-PC control in a smaller form factor.
Retailer reveals Radeon RX 6600 GPU, another card you probably won’t be able to buy
Pricing remains a mystery, but expect MSRP to be lower than the $379 RX 6600XT.
We’re about to run out of Atlantic hurricane names—again
Greek names are out, supplemental names are in.
GM’s BrightDrop starts production of its EV600 electric delivery van
The vans use GM's new Ultium battery platform and have a range of 250 miles.
To the mountain and back: Rivian’s electric truck and its 314-mile range
We put the R1T to the test by driving up to the top of a mountain in Colorado.
New Azure Active Directory password brute-forcing flaw has no fix
Microsoft says AD authentication responses are working as intended.
G.I. Joe goes triple-A with new game headed by ex-WB developers
Plans to "redefine a beloved IP" could be helped by WB Games fallout.
Twitch leak suggests major response to streaming site’s “hate mob” issues
Follows months of Amazon-owned site playing hate speech whack-a-mole.
Electronic Frontier Foundation will deprecate HTTPS Everywhere plugin
All four major browsers have duplicated HTTPS Everywhere functionality natively.
Ford picks Kentucky and Tennessee for $11.4 billion EV investment
Three battery plants and a truck factory will add 11,000 new jobs to the region.
NY prepared for tens of thousands of unvaccinated health workers to lose jobs
Terminated health care workers will not be eligible for unemployment.
Researchers use Starlink satellites to pinpoint location, similar to GPS
Researchers track six satellites to get location with accuracy of eight meters.
The train that shrunk France… and Western Europe
The record-setting high-speed train went into service on this day 40 years ago.
Newest iPad mini has a subtle scrolling problem
Unclear whether this is a hardware issue or something fixable in software.
The Galaxy Note is back, it’s just going to be called the “Galaxy S22 Ultra”
Early S22 renders claim the Galaxy Note will be dead in name only.
Occultist tries to imprison Death in first The Sandman teaser
Plus new peeks at Stranger Things S4, Cowboy Bebop, The Witcher S2, Army of Thieves.
Film studios sue “no logs” VPN provider for $10 million
Independent movie studios are demanding $10 million in damages from LiquidVPN.
Emails show Elizabeth Holmes directing response to failed Theranos tests
Lab director “felt pressured to defend the company’s results to physicians."
Tesla tests drivers to trust them to supervise experimental Autopilot
Beta testers are already reporting worrying results with the new software.
Facebook suspends plan to launch Instagram Kids app as critics circle
Opposition to new photo-sharing platform for children under 13 gathers momentumn.
New NASA satellite to continue half a century of changing Earth observations
"Landsat has provided a critical reference for assessing long-term changes."
Iké Boys review: If you love kaiju so much, why not just be one?
Clever use of animation, deep affinity for shows that inspired it carry this indie genre film.
N64 on Switch: Reading the tea leaves on future game prospects
Previous NSO support, third party relations, Virtual Console history: We dive in.
It’s not easy to control police use of tech—even with a law
A key backer of a 2018 Oakland law says the city is not following the rules.
The 2022 Kia Carnival is a handsome minivan, but it needs a hybrid option
Despite Kia's expertise with electrification, the Carnival only comes as a V6 for now.
A new formula may help Black patients’ access to kidney care
Algorithm made it harder for Black patients to qualify for transplants, other treatments.
He escaped the dark web’s biggest bust. Now he’s back
DeSnake apparently eluded the takedown of AlphaBay and now plans to resurrect it.
As Florida punishes schools, study finds masks cut school COVID outbreaks 3.5X
Universal masking prevents some school outbreaks and lowers case rates.
Old coal plant is now mining bitcoin for a utility company
Bitcoin is breathing new life into another ailing power plant.
The MacBook Pro will soon get a resolution bump, macOS beta suggests
The new laptops are still expected to launch by the end of the year.
Three iOS 0-days revealed by researcher frustrated with Apple’s bug bounty
Public disclosure comes in wake of other grumblings about Apple's bug bounty behavior.
Review: More remix than adaptation, Foundation is top-notch storytelling
How much you like the series may depend on whether you're a stickler for staying faithful to the source material.
The Surface Duo’s two-year-old Android OS will be updated sometime this year
Microsoft's rocky introduction to Android continues with worst-in-class update speed.
Bitcoin outlawed in China as country bans all cryptocurrency transactions
Move comes as government seeks to limit fallout of looming real estate collapse.
Windows 11 hits the Release Preview Insider channel as official release nears
Near-final preview release demonstrates how the upgrade will be offered to PCs.
NASA seeks a new ride for astronauts to the Artemis launch pad
Among the options NASA is considering is modifying the Astrovan. This is the way.
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