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Closest-ever fast radio burst makes some ideas on their origin less likely
Even as we find more bursts, the mysterious high-energy events still defy an explanation.
Want to know if spaghetti is al dente? Check how much it curls in the pot
"It's the change from rigid to viscoelastic behavior that drives the shape change."
Clever design, lack of Bluetooth make Razer’s new phone gamepad a winner
When latency matters, Kishi's direct connection, flush fit might make the difference.
Put a Tiger in your Lake: Intel’s next-gen mobile CPUs pack a punch
Intel demos Tiger Lake CPUs, Project Athena designs, and foldable displays.
NASA may ask lunar lander aspirants to put more skin in the game
"The $600 million wasn’t everything we requested."
Dealmaster: Get a recommended RAVPower wireless charger and adapter for $17
Plus deals on the Beats Powerbeats Pro, gaming mice, PlayStation Plus, and more.
US finally prohibits ISPs from charging for routers they don’t provide
Yes, we needed a law to ban rental fees for devices that customers own in full.
Facebook is banning (most) deepfakes
The policy doesn't cover videos doctored using more conventional techniques.
Qualcomm is getting into the self-driving market
Qualcomm will initially target advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS).
Mercedes-Benz creates Avatar-inspired EV concept, uses no unobtainium
The Vision AVTR has bionic flaps and can move like a crab.
PGP keys, software security, and much more threatened by new SHA1 exploit
Behold: the world's first known chosen-prefix collision of widely used hash function.
China’s lander releases data, high-resolution images of the Moon
The data was collected over a period of 12 lunar "days."
Sony stuns CES with an electric show car, the Vision-S
The concept shows off Sony's cameras, sensors, and entertainment.
LG and Samsung TVs at CES: Bezel-free, smaller OLEDs, and more
All the new high-end TVs include advanced AI processors and features, too.
SpaceX is now the world’s largest satellite operator [Updated]
Becoming a satellite company has not been without its challenges.
Goop’s Netflix trailer: Paltrow sinks into a vagina, spews pseudoscience
Paltrow asks the important question: "How can we really milk the shit out of this?"
Dell’s new Concept UFO puts PC gaming on a Nintendo Switch-like device
Details are slim, but the working model we tried out was surprisingly impressive.
Ditching coal in the US is saving lives, helping crops
Near shuttered plants, deaths drop and crop productivity rises.
YouTube decides it’s easier to treat all watchers of kids’ content as kids
If you're watching content "for kids," you, too, must therefore be a kid. Right?
Latest trailer for long-delayed The New Mutants ratchets up the horror
"This place takes your greatest fear and makes you live through it. Until it kills you."
AT&T et al. fight against higher upload speeds in $20-billion FCC program
Big ISPs want more money for slower broadband as FCC plans new fund.
Tired of hearing about Wi-Fi 6? Great, let’s talk about Wi-Fi 6E
Doubling Wi-Fi's usable spectrum is a simpler fix than tacking on new protocols.
Researchers unearth malicious Google Play apps linked to active exploit hackers
Apps used a variety of tricks to covertly install well-written espionage software.
Lenovo enters the foldable PC space with new ThinkPad X1 Fold
Plus a new, dual-screen ThinkBook with an E-Ink panel on the cover.
Samsung’s $1,000 Galaxy Chromebook is the new Chrome OS standard-bearer
Samsung builds a spiritual successor to the Pixelbook.
Unpatched US government website gets pwned by pro-Iran script kiddie
Federal Deposit Library Program's server unpatched since 2012.
Fisker shows off its new $37,499 electric crossover, due in 2022
Fisker was an early Tesla rival that flamed out in 2011; now it's back.
Final reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes
Enter by the end of the day and add to this year's charity haul of over $29,000.
The FTC’s 2020 COPPA rules have YouTube creators scared
YouTube creators don't have access to kids' data—but may get COPPA fines anyway.
Byton is putting a 48-inch screen in its new EV, and it has content, too
Production of the M-Byte electric SUV starts this year with US deliveries in 2021.
Turn-by-turntables: How drivers got from point A to point B in the early 1900s
Long before GPS, drivers still wanted tech that could simplify the navigation process.
HP updates Elite Dragonfly laptop with 10th-gen Intel processors, Tile integration
Plus a new display and new graphics for an updated HP Spectre x360 15.
MIT scientists made a shape-shifting material that morphs into a human face
New method based on double-curvature effect described by Gauss nearly 200 years ago.
It’s the network, stupid: Study offers fresh insight into why we’re so divided
Social perception bias might simply be an emergent property of our social networks.
What’s causing Australia’s devastating fire weather?
From climate trends to Indian Ocean temperature patterns.
10 tech deals we like that are going on this weekend
The latest Dealmaster has offers on Switch Pro Controllers, iPads, and more.
How modern tech has powered our favorite superheroes through the years
We live in an era of superhero stories, but they didn't appear out of nowhere (or Krypton).
Superior pinpoints racism in science: Naive scientists plus strategic racists
Angela Saini's new book explores why science's racism issues have persisted.
Judge awards women $13 million in massive lawsuit against GirlsDoPorn
Defendants used fraud and coercion to get women to appear in porn, judge rules.
Academic paper in comic form explores ethics of treating torturer with PTSD
It's part of a growing academic movement called "graphic medicine."
China and the United States will compete for launch supremacy in 2020
Can America break China's global lead in annual orbital missions?
Apple targets jailbreaking in lawsuit against iOS virtualization company
Corellium responds, says Apple is "demonizing" jailbreaking with new DMCA claim.
Apple and GPU-maker Imagination make nice in new licensing deal
One of tech's nastiest breakups has led to an amiable reconciliation.
Man with 5.5-inch horn growing on his back slipped “through the net,” docs say
The man lived in a developed country with access to free healthcare.
Oracle copied Amazon’s API—was that copyright infringement?
Opinion: Copying APIs is essential to competition in the software industry.
Pick your poison: The potential Iranian responses to US drone strike
Killing of Quds Force commander Soleimani raises the stakes in US-Iran tensions.
To replace gas taxes, Oregon and Utah ask EVs to pay for road use
Gas taxes pay for the upkeep of our roads, but electric cars don't use gasoline.
“Cache issue” causes Xiaomi cameras to show other people’s camera feeds
Xiaomi cuts camera feed access while it ensures "such issues will not happen again."
EPA science board to EPA management: Try using some science
People who feared for the board's independence may find new reports reassuring.
Clustering pattern of Azteca ant colonies may be due to a Turing mechanism
Chalk it up to a complicated interplay of predator/prey relationships in the ecosystem.
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