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Congress fires warning shot at NASA after SpaceX Moon lander award
"This bill, in the main, is not supposed to be about space."
Real robotaxi service gets a step closer in San Francisco (Updated)
Waymo and Cruise have both applied for permits to deploy a commercial service.
Mass Effect Legendary Edition: Tests, thoughts, and a 10 am EDT Twitch stream
If you can't make the morning Twitch stream, we still have tons of impressions to share.
Steam’s “price parity rule” isn’t wreaking havoc on game prices
Game publishers aren't "passing on the savings" from "cheaper" online storefronts.
Colonial Pipeline resumes operations after ransomware prompted closure
Closure led to panic-buying, price hikes, and other disruptions in East Coast states.
Vizio TV buyers are becoming the product Vizio sells, not just its customers
Vizio's ads, streaming, and data business grew 133 percent year over year.
CDC advisory committee recommends COVID vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds
Formal approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech by the CDC expected within 24 hours.
Amazon’s 2nd-gen Echo Show offers better cameras, CPUs, and speakers
Echo Show 8 features a 13mp wide-angle camera, 8-core CPU, and digital pan/zoom.
Better than holograms: 3D-animated starships can be viewed from any angle
Unlike holograms, the optical trap display produces images viewable from all angles.
Xiaomi and the US government bury the hatchet, settle investment ban
Trump's DOD called Xiaomi a "Communist Chinese military company" in mid-January.
Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing
A paralyzed individual hit 90 characters per minute, 99% accuracy.
$50 monthly broadband discounts available starting today via 825 ISPs
FCC's emergency pandemic fund is open, with 825 home and mobile ISPs participating.
Snap suspends Yolo, LMK anonymous messaging apps after lawsuit over teen’s death
Lawsuit alleges messaging apps were “dangerous and defective.”
Valve’s Gabe Newell hints at vague console plans coming “this year”
Indefinite tease comes during Q&A with New Zealand students.
J&J vaccine supply has run out; Emergent says it’s working on improvements
Vaccine production at Emergent's facility is still halted.
Volvo and Daimler bet on hydrogen truck boom this decade
Swedish and German groups expect fuel to challenge diesel in long-distance freight.
Aston Martin’s new boss tells us about the future of the company
Former AMG CEO Tobias Moers is now in charge of the British carmaker.
Famed Arthurian tale comes to silver screen in The Green Knight trailer
"Honor. That is why a knight does what he does."
Rare fungal infections that destroy eyeballs and kill are on the rise in India
People with diabetes are particularly vulnerable to the aggressive fungus.
Ransomware crooks post cops’ psych evaluations after talks with DC police stall
Babuk demands $4 million, Metropolitan Police Department offers $100,000.
Nvidia’s RTX 3050 brings ray tracing and DLSS to $800 laptops
Performance-boosting DLSS on entry-level laptops could be a big deal.
Github reverses takedown of reverse-engineered GTA source code
Identical fork is restored after DMCA counterclaim.
Intel claims its new Tiger Lake-H CPUs for laptops beat AMD’s Ryzen 5000
Flagship Core i9-11980HK allegedly beats Ryzen 9 5900HX by 11 to 26 percent.
Our fave gentleman thief is back for revenge in trailer for Lupin part 2
Viewers frustrated by part 1's maddening cliffhanger won't have much longer to wait.
Baltimore chief prosecutor asks FCC to stop negative news coverage about her
First Amendment prevents FCC from punishing news station for its "tone."
Apple’s MagSafe wireless charger is on sale for a new low price today
Dealmaster also has wireless headphones, Switch gear, and gaming monitors.
After many delays, Massachusetts’ Vineyard Wind is finally approved
The new project will be over 20 times larger than anything built in the US.
Samsung and AMD will reportedly take on Apple’s M1 SoC later this year
Exynos with an AMD GPU is coming for laptops, but maybe not phones?
Programming a robot to teach itself how to move
Flexible, open-ended learning software works but finds the real world difficult.
HTC’s newest headsets signal end of Vive’s 5-year “VR for the home” mission
Vive Focus 3 is a $1,299, enterprise-grade answer to Oculus Quest 2, plus Vive Pro 2.
Amazon and others ordered to slash diesel pollution from warehouse trucks
Southern California is being smothered by pollution from e-commerce warehouses.
Fatal Tesla Model S crash unlikely to involve Autopilot, according to NTSB
Was the person found in the back of the car trying to manually release the door?
A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of SpaceX
Bezos tried to hire Gwynne Shotwell to run Blue Origin in 2016.
FDA authorizes Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds
The CDC's advisory committee will meet Wednesday to vote on recommending use.
Apple invests $45 million more in Gorilla Glass-maker Corning
Investment follows millions more that produced the iPhone 12's ceramic shield.
Amazon “seized and destroyed” 2 million counterfeit products in 2020
Counterfeit products sent to Amazon warehouses are destroyed to prevent resale.
It’s the battle of the alien symbiotes in Venom: Let There Be Carnage trailer
"I've been thinking about you, Eddie, because you and I are the same."
By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons in one cave
The Neanderthals appear to have met a very bad end.
Security researcher successfully jailbreaks an Apple AirTag
Successful jailbreak increases existing AirTag security and privacy concerns.
Google: We put YouTube TV in the main YouTube app. What now, Roku?
Google sidesteps the YouTube TV ban, threatens to send free devices to customers.
AstraZeneca’s troubled vaccine not renewed in EU; Pfizer gets big, new deal
Meanwhile, China’s Sinopharm vaccine—79% efficacy, easy to store—authorized by WHO.
Hackers who shut down pipeline: We don’t want to cause “problems for society”
The attack paralyzed a pipeline that moves 2.5 million barrels per day.
Private-equity firm revives zombie fossil-fuel power plant to mine bitcoin
Power plant was left for dead until the cryptocurrency boom came along.
Ford picks a name for its electric pickup truck: The F-150 Lightning
The SVT F-150 Lightning was a factory hot rod pickup in the 1990s.
Sony says PS5 could be difficult to find into 2022
Healthy demand, semiconductor shortage combine to keep the system hard to find.
Here’s our first look at 2023’s electric Porsche Macan SUV
The Macan will share an electric platform with Audi's next A6 and Q6.
A SpaceX booster now trails only 4 space shuttles in flight experience
This particular first stage is approaching historic status.
Android Automotive OS review: Under the hood with Google’s car OS
AAOS nails the car platform fundamentals, but it needs more apps and features.
New book Press Reset investigates the high human cost of game development
Beloved game-industry journo aims his lens at the little people making big video games.
Why Amy Klobuchar just wrote 600 pages on antitrust
"Monopolies tend to have a lot of control, not just over consumers, but also over politics."
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