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AWS suffers third outage of the month
Failure in northern Virginia data center affects Slack, Epic Games among others.
A fossil site reveals an ancient sinkhole and its enormous occupant
A road project in Tennessee revealed an enigmatic fossil of an enormous mastodon.
Google OnHub router will join Google’s list of dead products next December
Routers won't stop working, but most functions will be shut off.
Boeing, Airbus wade into 5G scuffle, ask Biden admin to delay rollout
Aircraft manufacturers claim 5G radio signals will interfere with altimeters.
Biden’s omicron battle plan includes 500 million home test kits
President Biden outlined the federal government's response to omicron's ascendancy.
Steve Ballmer’s “parting gift” as Microsoft CEO: Trying to name Cortana “Bingo”
Former Microsoft product manager talks about Cortana's development and decline.
Meta investors are sick of the scandals and want more oversight
Shareholders want greater oversight of “risks to public safety.”
Google pushes developers to adapt Android apps for Chromebooks
Google wants Android developers to be excited about adapting apps for larger devices.
The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse
Things changed once US diplomats in Uganda got hacked by Pegasus.
Waze adds EV chargers to its app, joining Google and Apple Maps
Google subsidiary adds feature that Maps users have had for years.
Details released on the Trump administration’s pandemic chaos
Report provides details of how Trump's appointees got in the way.
New study challenges popular explanation for London’s infamous “Wobbly Bridge”
"The shaking causes the syncing, instead of the syncing causing the shaking."
More EVs, hybrids likely to follow revised EPA fuel economy standards
EPA's new rules apply to vehicles starting with 2023 model year.
With Intel 12th Gen CPUs looming, LG’s debut gaming laptop opts for 11th Gen
LG's first gaming laptop and Intel's Alder Lake mobile chips are both expected to debut in 2022.
Holmes’ fate hangs in the balance as jury deliberates criminal fraud charges
Is Elizabeth Holmes guilty? Prosecution and defense offer their final arguments.
Third dose of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine leads to 37-fold jump in antibodies
While work on omicron-specific shots continues, boosters thwart severe omicron infections.
What to expect from Apple in 2022: ARM desktops, portless iPhones, and more
We try to predict Cupertino's output in the coming year.
How will our warming climate stabilize? Scientists look to the distant past
Can the deep past help us understand our future?
That time Catherine the Great championed smallpox vaccinations
The Russian monarch's 1787 letter calling for widespread vaccination is up for auction.
ESPN, other Disney-owned channels return to YouTube TV [Updated]
Disney-owned channels had been removed from YouTube TV due to a carriage dispute.
The weekend’s best deals: Epic Games Store holiday sale, Apple devices, and more
Dealmaster also includes good noise-canceling headphones and Philips Hue lights.
Mask up! The best face masks for use against COVID-19 [Updated]
Finding masks that meet CDC and WHO guidelines is tough. We did the work for you.
Google warns that NSO hacking is on par with elite nation-state spies
ForcedEntry is “one of the most technically sophisticated exploits.”
Anti-5G “quantum pendants” are radioactive
Dutch authority for nuclear safety issues warning, bans 10 scammy "negative ion" products.
Vaccine trial finds a glitch with children in one age range
Company is adding a third dose to the trial after finding a low immune response.
Putting the fear of bass into mosquitofish—with a robot
A notorious invasive species stays scared for weeks after seeing a fake predator.
Judge rejects Sackler immunity deal, vacating Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
Judge: Bankruptcy Court didn't have authority to give legal immunity to Sacklers.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 developer quickly cancels NFT plans after fan outcry
Reversal comes less than 36 hours after announcement: "If you care, we care, too."
FedEx receives its first electric BrightDrop delivery vans
The first vans will start delivering packages in Los Angeles in 2022.
A domestic newspaper warns of the Russian space program’s “rapid collapse”
"The space program is rotting from within."
War Stories: How Deus Ex was almost too complex for its own good
We caught up with Warren Spector and picked his brain about JC Denton & pals.
A sublime landscape: New model explains Pluto’s lumpy plains
The convection thought to drive the area's geology may come from cooling, not heat.
The Wheel of Time episode 7 finally tells us who the Dragon is
We barrel toward the season finale with a big reveal—and maybe a couple of missteps.
What physics can teach us about Pamplona’s annual running of the bulls
New model accounts for speed, density, time dependency, and probability of runners falling.
Rocket Report: SpaceX plans a Falcon 9 flurry, Bill Gates buys into rockets
SpaceX seeks to launch three mission in 72 hours to close out 2021.
Review: Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 is a powerful laptop with heat problems
Laptop's performance improves quite a bit if you're willing to let it run hot.
The Hyundai Ioniq 5 is the best EV we’ve driven in 2021
It's the first EV to use the automaker's new 800 V EV platform.
Google Play app with 500,000 downloads sent user contacts to Russian server
Joker malware, which surreptitiously signs up users to pricey services, strikes again.
I don’t want another Netflix adaptation—I want Mega Man Legends 3
We don't know much about Mega Man movie, but it's definitely not the game I've wanted for decades.
Electric vehicles ask a lot of their tires—here’s why
EVs have more mass and lots of torque, but the tires need to be efficient and quiet.
Fossil fuel combustion kills more than 1 million people every year, study says
Study examined global exposure to PM2.5, a pollutant linked to many diseases.
After months-long battle, Apple takes the due date off its return-to-office plans
Rising virus cases and the new variant were the cited reasons.
Backdoor gives hackers complete control over federal agency network
Avast researchers say the malware has ties to a previously seen espionage hack.
Comcast delays data caps in Northeast US for at least another year
Most Comcast customers are still capped, but Northeast states get another reprieve.
Players invest $54M in Molyneux’s NFT game Legacy in hopes of earning even more
But are these games a brave new world or a FOMO-driven gold rush bubble?
Focusing sound vibrations precisely can knock over one Lego minifig among many
The key is a signal processing technique that is akin to ventriloquism.
Final Fantasy VII Remake on PC: A gorgeous start, but where are the toggles?
Square Enix backtracks on recent record of enabling its PC games' customizations.
Rigetti announces 80 qubit processor, experiments with “qutrits”
An 80-qubit processor made by linking two 40-qubit ones.
Current vaccines are enough to fight omicron, but massive wave is coming fast
With just 17% of the US boosted, a massive omicron wave could peak in January.
New York City bans new natural gas hookups in step toward all-electric future
"The next generation of buildings is going to be electric."
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