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Silky-smooth with plenty of speed: Maserati Levante GTS review
Maserati takes aim at the Porsche Cayenne Turbo with the $120,000 Levante GTS.
Judge rejects Musk’s arguments to dismiss “pedo guy” defamation suit
A British caver sued Elon Musk after Musk called him a "pedo guy."
Microsoft: The open source company
The times, they are a-changin'—even bits of Windows will be open source.
Uber suffers disappointing stock market debut
Uber is worth $76 billion—far below previous estimates as high as $120 billion.
Japanese railway company starts testing 249mph bullet train speeds
Alfa-X slated for service in 2030, leaving room for another high-speed rail to catch up.
Why Google believes machine learning is its future
We heard so much about machine learning at Google I/O this year.
FCC says carriers failed Florida after hurricane—but lets them off the hook
FCC finds "voluntary" commitment didn't work, proposes new... voluntary commitment.
HP Spectre 15 x360 2019 review: Carving a niche in a crowded space
The "gem-cut" design isn't for everybody, but it sure is striking.
Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019
The Nest ecosystem is dead. Nest accounts are dead. Nest's privacy firewall is dead.
Rocket Report: NASA considers Falcon 9 triple header, Indiana pol eyes Moon
"We start launching satellites for actual service later this year."
Detective Pikachu film review: This is how you adapt a video game for theaters
A game adaptation so good, I almost forgot to compliment Ryan Reynolds' hilarious work.
28 years later, hacker fixes rampant slowdown on SNES‘ Gradius III
Original SA-1 enhancement chip leads to 2-3x speed improvement on real hardware.
Old Falcon 9 rockets done firing their engines will now inflame imaginations
"We feel confident that people will want to come and see one of these rockets."
Jeff Bezos unveils his sweeping vision for humanity’s future in space
"It's time to go back to the Moon—this time to stay.”
Feds charge Chinese national in 2015 breach of health insurer Anthem
Breach using spear phishing and backdoors exposed data for 78.8 million people.
Final Fantasy VII remake finally looks like a video game—and it’s a pretty one
More to come "in June." For now, we can confirm active battling a la FFXV.
Open source bug poses threat to sites running multiple CMSes
Drupal, Joomla, and Typo3 all bitten by bug in PharStreamWrapper.
The last reactor at Three Mile Island is shutting down
Plant owner Exelon said the reactor would shut down by September 30.
Dealmaster: Grab a pair of Anker wireless noise-cancelling headphones for $80
Plus $30 off a Nintendo Switch, Pixel 3A and Amazon device deals, and much more.
SpaceX broadband testing to ramp up with launch of dozens of satellites
Demo satellites launch next week; "satellites for actual service" later in 2019.
Pennywise is back and as terrifying as ever in first trailer for IT: Chapter II
"You know what they say about Derry. No one who dies here ever really dies."
One of our favorite ST: The Next Generation episodes aired 31 years ago
Conspiracy came right at the end of season 1, and it stands out even today.
Drones used missiles with knife warhead to take out single terrorist targets
Hellfire missile has spring-loaded blades created to minimize collateral damage.
Facebook co-founder calls for breakup of Facebook
Chris Hughes says Zuckerberg sacrificed "security and civility for clicks."
Microsoft patented a braille-displaying controller accessory for the blind
Text-heavy games are often inaccessible to the visually impaired, company notes.
Vader Immortal world premiere: Star Wars comes to VR with story, humor, stakes
First episode comes to Oculus Quest on May 21, offers 45 minutes of thrills for $10.
Hackers breached 3 US antivirus companies, researchers reveal
Source code, network access being sold online by "Fxmsp" collective.
Bitcoin is worth $6,000 for the first time this year
Bitcoin's price has been rising in recent weeks and it's not clear why.
Google Pixel 3A hands-on: The only Pixel phone to buy
Google's cost cutting doesn't hurt the plastic Pixel much.
Senator Hawley announces bill banning loot boxes, pay-to-win mechanics
"Game developers shouldn’t be allowed to monetize addiction," Mo. Republican says.
SpaceX had a problem during a parachute test in April
"We did not get the results we wanted."
HBO drops first teaser for its upcoming Watchmen series
Don't call it a reboot. Showrunner Damon Lindelof says it's more of a remix.
Unless you want your payment card data skimmed, avoid these commerce sites
A skimming campaign continues to infect sites with malicious JavaScript.
Who can convince those who reject climate science? Maybe their kids
Experiment showed middle-schoolers got their parents thinking.
Bethesda’s latest Elder Scrolls adventure taken down amid cries of plagiarism
Pulled "Elsweyr" RPG is extremely similar to a D&D adventure published in 2016.
Why organizing Uber and Lyft drivers is a big challenge
Drivers around the world are switching off their apps on Wednesday.
UK goes a whole week without using coal-fired electricity
The cradle of the Industrial Revolution is turning a corner away from pollution.
Ajit Pai refuses to investigate Frontier’s horrible telecom service
Long outages and bad customer service mar Frontier's government-funded network.
Dealmaster: There’s a bunch of special offers for the new Google Pixel 3A
Including $100 gift cards and a few trade-in deals.
“RobbinHood” ransomware takes down Baltimore City government networks
A year after 911 system hit, most of city's networks are down.
Lenovo adds AMD Ryzen Pro-powered laptops to its ThinkPad family
You can get the first available models at the end of May starting at $939.
VW’s record-breaking electric car takes on world’s scariest racetrack, Nürburgring
After shattering the record at Pikes Peak, the ID R takes on the Nürburgring.
Porsche, Fiat face multimillion-dollar payouts in separate diesel scandals
Porsche played a small role in diesel scandals, but it benefitted from the cheating.
Cray, AMD to build 1.5 exaflops supercomputer for US government
System will mix Epyc CPUs and Radeon Instinct GPUs.
Waymo expands Phoenix self-driving service by putting 10 cars on Lyft
Lyft customers in the Phoenix area will be able to choose a self-driving taxi.
Google debuts “next-generation” Assistant, coming to next Pixel phones
Plus, a new hands-free Driving Mode and Waze support.
Meet the Google Pixel 3a: A midrange phone with a flagship camera for $399
A plastic body, slower SoC, and other cuts get the Pixel down to a new low price.
Google renames Assistant home devices, debuts $229 Nest Hub Max
The Google Assistant got yet another home today, this time in the Nest lineup.
Disney delays Avatar quadrilogy, dates three live-action Star Wars films
We're not sure when Fandango will start pre-selling tickets to 2027's Avatar 5, but...
Charter squeezes more money out of Internet users with new cancellation policy
No more prorated final bills: Charter/Spectrum makes it more expensive to cancel.
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