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Long-awaited Dead Island 2 reveal headlines Gamescom announcement frenzy
Also: Homeworld 3, Return to Monkey Island, and a car that connects to Pokémon games.
Scanning students’ homes during remote testing is unconstitutional, judge says
Ohio judge says room scans could form a slippery slope to more illegal searches.
Sony enters the high-end custom controller arena with the DualSense Edge
Also: The PlayStation VR2 gets a release window at long last.
Devs are making progress getting macOS Ventura to run on unsupported, decade-old Macs
Widening gap between supported and unsupported hardware makes things tricky.
Twitter whistleblower claims Musk was right about bots; FTC reviewing report
Twitter’s former security chief alleges execs hid security risks from regulators.
Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code
Co-creator of core Unix utility, now 80, just needs to run a few more tests.
China’s official view of NASA’s Artemis program appears to be dismissive
"NASA might grow more hostile against China in the space domain."
Lightweight Linux laptop crams a 99 Wh battery inside
Tuxedo Computers' InfinityBook Pro 14 is only 0.6-inches thick and 2.9 pounds.
Some Google products will disable “Hey, Google” commands during meetings
Google Meet Hardware knows you're in a meeting, so it will disable the hot word.
We’re loving the lavish epic visuals in the new LOTR: Rings of Power trailer
"Choose not the oath of fear, but that of faith."
Does turning the air conditioning off when you’re not home save energy?
Engineers ran the numbers, and the answer varies.
The SLS rocket is the worst thing to happen to NASA—but maybe also the best?
"This has been a really tough thing."
Computers vs. TV: Which is less likely to promote dementia?
When it comes to health issues, not all forms of being sedentary are equal.
Pfizer completes FDA request for fall BA.4/5 boosters; feds expect doses in Sept.
The request is partly based on preclinical data. A clinical trial has yet to start.
How to make HomeKit see more of your gadgets with Home Assistant
Tiny server can unlock greater powers in not only HomeKit, but Google and Alexa.
Once again, Apple calls workers back to the office—once again, workers fight back
An internal petition says individual teams should set remote-work policies.
Review: House of the Dragon’s debut might win back alienated GoT fans
Pilot can't quite escape the shadow of Game of Thrones, but it's eminently watchable.
Intel leans on more E-cores for performance boosts in leaked 13th-gen CPU lineup
E-cores in desktop CPUs have proven handy for big multi-threaded workloads.
YouTube kicks off podcast strategy with new landing page
New page highlights popular podcast episodes and playlists.
Smartphone demand drops for all but the most expensive models
Inflation, lockdowns, and a sense of sameness hurt global smartphone demand.
Fauci to step down in December; Biden extends “deepest thanks”
Fauci, 81, has advised seven presidents on infectious disease threats.
VESA wants to replace monitor response time specs with ‘ClearMR’ stamps
ClearMR spec grants monitors, TVs, & more with a number representing motion blur performance.
Apple expands self-service repair program to M1 MacBooks
Apple will sell and rent parts and tools for M1 Mac laptop repairs.
Saints Row game review: An open-world mess beyond redemption
A "reboot" that doesn't even surpass open-world GTA-like games of the late '00s.
For its latest images, the Webb telescope looked closer to home
"We hadn't really expected it to be this good, to be honest."
The weekend’s best deals: Xbox Series S bundles, M2 MacBook Air, and more
Dealmaster also has Anker charging cables, Doom games, and Surface PCs.
Should we be trying to create a circular urine economy?
Urine has lots of nitrogen and phosphorus—a problem as waste, great as fertilizer.
Behold this award-winning image of fungus making a fly its “zombie” slave
Plus eight other winning images in 2022 BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition.
Botometer creator says Musk’s Twitter spam estimate “doesn’t mean anything”
With Botometer tool, you can "choose any threshold... to get any result you want."
Ethereum’s “Merge” is about to put every ether miner out of work
The ambitious change is expected to cut energy consumption by a factor of 1,000.
Lucid gives the Air a sporty makeover, launches new Sapphire sub-brand
At $249,000, the Lucid Air Sapphire will be a rare thing indeed.
Qualcomm is jumping back into the server CPU market with Nuvia acquisition
Nuvia—a company founded by ex-Apple CPU engineers—will also tackle server designs.
Debit card fraud leaves Ally Bank customers, small stores reeling
Some are seeing charges on cards they've never activated or hardly used.
Lenovo sends cease-and-desist to Framework over a stylized letter “O”
Company says Framework's 3D-printed motherboard case infringes its trademark.
Scientists are figuring out how to destroy “forever chemicals”
One class of PFAS chemicals can be broken down into harmless compounds with lye.
Sega packs unreleased games, new arcade ports into Genesis Mini 2
Full 60+ game list also includes some Genesis classics with new gameplay features.
Library’s prized Galileo manuscript turns out to be a clever forgery
All signs point to notorious 20th-century forger.
Review: HP’s Elite Dragonfly Chromebook is the cream of the ChromeOS crop
Easily one of the best Chromebooks you can buy, but it needs a price drop.
Rocket Report: Europe wants a super-heavy lifter, Starship nets launch contract
"We are definitely seeing significant attrition. That should surprise no one."
For the first time ever, more people watched streaming TV than cable
The long-predicted shift finally happened.
If everyone bicycled like the Danes, we’d avoid a UK’s worth of emissions
Lower emissions and lower obesity would more than offset the added traffic deaths.
Loathsome anti-vax group run by RFK Jr gets Meta permaban—finally
CHD says the ban came "without warning." Meta says it followed many violations.
Hands-on: Logitech’s tiny G705 wireless mouse is more versatile than it looks
Decent power for traveling or small hands.
FTC sued by firm allegedly selling sensitive data on abortion clinic visits
The firm hopes stopping all health data collection will block the FTC's lawsuit.
Motorola takes on the Pixel 6a with a 144 Hz mid-range phone
The Moto Edge has a super-fast display, but can the MediaTek SoC keep up?
Old laptop hard drives will allegedly crash when exposed to Janet Jackson music
Problem has been assigned an official CVE ID, despite lack of specifics.
Zoom patches critical vulnerability again after prior fix was bypassed
MacOS security researcher was able to bypass the fix issued just last weekend.
Netflix’s ad-supported plan likely to have another drawback: No video downloads
Text found in iOS app code says plan won't allow downloads for offline viewing.
Hundreds of cosmetic MultiVersus mods stop working in apparent crackdown
Twitch streamers also hit for playing with modded characters like Jesus Christ.
Ring patched an Android bug that could have exposed video footage
After a chain of attacks, security firm got access to locations and recordings.
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