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Amazon will spend $1 billion per year on NFL’s Thursday Night Football
New deal lets ESPN+, Peacock, Paramount+, and Tubi simulcast national games, too.
Under pressure, CDC drops school spacing to 3 ft in many classrooms
3 ft enough for elementary; 6 ft best for middle, high schools if cases are high.
Chinese military restricts use of Teslas over security concerns
Employees at sensitive facilities have been asked not to drive Teslas to work.
Here are five questions we would ask the nominee for NASA administrator
"If we can't do a rocket for $11.5 billion, we ought to close up shop."
The economics of covering California’s water system with solar panels
Renewable power, less evaporation, lower maintenance, and more.
Rocket Report: Pegasus booster will fly again, hacking SpaceX telemetry
"The RS-25 is a great program for us."
Sherlock Holmes takes a back seat to street kids in The Irregulars trailer
New series modernizes Holmsian lore with diverse cast, supernatural elements.
NASA fired up its new rocket for 499.6 seconds on Thursday
The Green Run test may give NASA a green light to proceed with a launch.
“Expert” hackers used 11 0-days to infect Windows, iOS, and Android users
The breadth and abundance of exploits for unknown vulnerabilities sets group apart.
Real-world Supercross tracks have been influenced by the sport’s video game
Ars talks to the sport's senior director of operations to learn about the whoops.
Sony acquires world’s largest fighting-game tourney series
Next online event, coincidentally, will only include PlayStation games.
AT&T lies about Calif. net neutrality law, claiming it bans “free data”
AT&T is angry that it must stop charging HBO Max rivals for data-cap exemptions.
Sony’s excellent WH-1000XM4 headphones are back down to their lowest price
Dealmaster also has deals on the Nintendo Switch Lite, Dell monitors, and more.
One company wants to sell the feds location data from every car on Earth
Federal agencies already buy tons of user data; one vendor is now being sued.
The debate continues: ‘Oumuamua could be remnant of Pluto-like planet
Secret to at least one aspect of object's unusual properties lies in solid nitrogen ice.
The next iPad Pro could have a Thunderbolt port
Report claims Mini LED is in the works, too.
Uber concedes UK drivers are workers—some drivers aren’t satisfied
Uber only wants to pay for "engaged time"—not time waiting for a new customer.
Chrome brings live-captioning to any web audio source
Machine-generated captions are great for podcasts, livestreams, and more.
New PSVR controllers suggest PS5 headset won’t need external sensors
Oculus Touch-style controllers bring DualSense-style haptic feedback, triggers.
Attackers are trying awfully hard to backdoor iOS developers’ Macs
XcodeSpy uses malicious Xcode project to install the EggShell backdoor.
Distraction, not partisanship, drives sharing of misinformation
But getting people to pay attention to news quality doesn't seem to help much.
~4,300 publicly reachable servers are posing a new DDoS hazard to the Internet
DDoS-for-hire services adopt new technique that amplifies attacks 37 fold.
FreeBSD kernel-mode WireGuard moves forward out-of-tree
Development has been moved to Donenfeld's own zx2c4.com for the time being.
Amid panic over AstraZeneca vaccine, WHO urges countries to keep using it
COVID vaccines don’t prevent blood clots, which are common in the general population.
Intel hires Justin Long to mock Macs in throwback to 2000s “I’m a Mac” ads
"No one really games on a Mac."
A severe weather outbreak is underway across the southern United States
When warm and cold air masses collide, bad things can happen.
Intel Rocket Lake-S desktop gaming CPUs are here
Rocket Lake-S looks like a solid gen-on-gen improvement—but not a Ryzen-killer.
Samsung Galaxy A52 is the follow-up to Samsung’s best-selling phone
The best model has a 120 Hz display, Snapdragon 750G for ~$510.
AT&T whines about Calif. net neutrality law as ISPs’ case appears doomed
Judge thoroughly rejected ISPs' arguments against Calif. law, transcript shows.
A Maya ambassador’s grave reveals his surprisingly difficult life
The grave offers a rare glimpse at the lives of high-ranking Mayan officials.
Study finds 3-ft distancing in schools is enough—but debate is far from over
New study had a firm conclusion on 3 feet, but rather shaky data.
The Queen of the Nürburgring, Sabine Schmitz, has died
A regular on Top Gear, the racing driver was loved by millions.
BMW’s big electric car push: Selling 2 million new EVs by 2025
The iX arrives next year, but expect "mid $80s" pricing for the big BEV.
Could we fuel our jets using our sewage?
The conversion is expensive, but it avoids a lot of landfill emissions.
Strange microbe “breathes” nitrates using a mitochondria-like symbiont
A relatively recent symbiosis is reminiscent of the ‘powerhouse of the cell.’
AMD Radeon RX 6700 review: If another sold-out GPU falls in the forest…
Stop me if you've heard this one before: There's a new GPU coming out, but...
I was a teenage Twitter hacker. Graham Ivan Clark gets 3-year sentence
Florida teen pleads guilty to attack that took over Twitter's internal systems.
Google’s new Nest display wants to watch you while you sleep
There's no camera—sleep tracking happens via a Soli radar chip.
Google undercuts Apple with new 15% revenue share for Play apps
Unlike Apple, cut applies to first $1 million regardless of total revenue.
Another self-driving startup got gobbled up by incumbents
Voyage tested a retirement-community taxi service but never went driverless.
Cricut backs off plan to add subscription fee to millions of devices [Updated]
Cricut's not the first to pull this—and won't be the last, unless regulators catch up.
Get a bonus $20 gift card when you buy a new Nintendo Switch Lite today
Dealmaster also has deals on Sony's WH-1000XM4, HyperX headsets, and more.
Mimecast says SolarWinds hackers breached its network and spied on customers
Mimecast-issued certificate used to connect to customers’ Microsoft 365 tenants.
Touch of gray: The Air Force can’t retire the Boeing 707
In this installment of SitRep, we look at the 707's longevity as a military workhorse.
The 2021 Toyota Supra: We didn’t think they made them like this anymore
The 3.0 is the one to pick, especially after its 14 percent power bump for 2021.
$16 attack shows how easy carriers make it to intercept text messages
Reporter details problem in story titled, "A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16."
Huawei plans to start charging patent fees to Samsung, Apple for each phone sold
Huawei expects to fetch between $1.2 and 1.3 billion in patent fees.
Nvidia accidentally releases driver to un-nerf cryptocurrency mining
Nvidia hobbled the RTX 3060's mining abilities to reserve the card for gamers.
Qualcomm now owns Nuvia, aims new CPU design resources directly at Apple
Apple's former chief CPU architect is now Qualcomm's SVP of engineering.
Developers to update GTA Online to address poor load times after community fix
Rockstar acknowledges t0st’s patch fixes issue, then pays out a $10k bug bounty.
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