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FX adaptation of What We Do in the Shadows looks as good as original
Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement bring their undead mockumentary to Staten Island.
Fire (and lots of it): Berkeley researcher on the only way to fix cryptocurrency
Nicholas Weaver says bitcoin and other digital coins recapitulate 500 years of failure.
Remember the woman who was killed by an Uber AV? Her family sued Tempe
Lawsuit claims city was liable for its design of a particular median.
To protect users’ privacy, iOS 12.2 will limit Web apps’ access to iPhone’s sensors
The latest iOS beta defaults Web access to motion sensors to "off."
Netflix cancels Travelers, proving that our timeline has been abandoned
Season 3 wrapped up neatly but still left the door open to new stories.
Man who stole $5M in cryptocurrency via SIM swap pleads guilty
Prosecutors: Joel Ortiz tricked mobile firms, fraudulently transferred phone numbers.
Volkswagen’s Electrify America will buy Tesla Powerpacks to manage peak demand
100 sites will get an extra 350 kilowatt-hours to cut charging network's costs.
Microsoft’s Xbox Live is coming to Switch, iOS, Android
Achievements, friends lists, and more can come along from Xbox, PC.
It’s not that sporty, but it is rather good—the 2019 Lexus ES350 F Sport
Masses of room, and a much improved infotainment system, but the hybrid's probably the pick.
Ajit Pai loses in court—judges overturn gutting of tribal broadband program
Court: FCC failed to provide evidence and ignored harm to broadband access.
Alexa, give me nostalgia: Choose Your Own Adventure skill debuts from Audible
Two titles are available so far, but more will come.
Boy arrested for “joking” about shooting up school on social media
Screenshot showed Siri suggesting nearby schools—cops say threat wasn't credible.
YouTube is trying to prevent angry mobs from abusing “dislike” button
Could the thumbs-down button disappear from YouTube entirely?
Forget the Super Bowl, SpaceX just fired its Mars rocket engine
Musk: "So proud of great work by @SpaceX team!!"
Bless the overclockers: In the data center world, liquid cooling is becoming king
"For high performance computing, you just can’t do it with air.”
Fake-out teaser for Twilight Zone reboot interrupts Super Bowl
Jordan Peele's series for CBS All Access is third time show has been revived.
2D material makes Wi-Fi energy harvesting more efficient
New Wi-Fi energy harvester doesn't collect enough energy to make it worthwhile.
New trailer for Avengers: End Game: The lights are on, but who’s home?
"Some people move on. But not us."
Highbrow meets lowbrow in Netflix’s art world/horror mashup Velvet Buzzsaw
Writer/Director Dan Gilroy weaves a tangled web of money, sex, and murderous art.
The Gentleman Driver on Netflix looks at the world of amateurs in racing
At races like Le Mans, amateurs compete alongside the pros. But why?
Basquiat used invisible ink to make secret drawings in his paintings
The figures are visible under UV light; other paintings may also have hidden drawings.
In Estonia, students’ transit, school meals, and textbooks are all free
Mailis Reps: "I would still like to see a still more individual approach to all learners."
Here’s what the Sacklers didn’t want you to see in the OxyContin lawsuit
From 2007 to 2018, the Sacklers paid themselves more than $4B from opioid sales.
Carbon dioxide’s boost to trees may not offset its climate impact
Plants may help clean up our emissions, but their response is complicated.
This gory medical case shows why you should never, ever swallow a toothpick
He didn't suspect that he had swallowed a deadly shard of wood.
26 years later, Groundhog Day gets revived as… a VR game?
No, we don’t know if Bill Murray’s involved—but his character’s son is.
Digital exchange loses $137 million as founder takes passwords to the grave
QuadrigaCX survivors try to hack encrypted laptop in hopes of accessing cold wallet.
Three Identical Strangers review: Holy [expletive], can you believe [redacted]?
Still in theaters and airing 2/2 on CNN, go in blind—and set aside post-film research time.
Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia: Remembering NASA’s lost astronauts
From the archives: NASA's three worst disasters are clustered at the end of January.
Black hole jets may reveal details of event horizon
Model shows how black hole plasma jets form: may reveal event horizon details.
Spotify reportedly in “advanced stages” of acquiring podcast company for $230M
Unknown whether series like Reply All, Science Vs. would become Spotify exclusives.
Latest Windows 10 build puts desktop apps in a 3D world
No longer limited to Store apps, so you can now run Excel in VR.
FCC struggles to convince judge that broadband isn’t “telecommunications”
Skeptical judges question FCC's justification of net neutrality repeal.
Scientists solve the mystery of Rembrandt’s “impasto” paint recipe
A lead mineral called plumbonacrite was used to create a thick, paste-like paint.
Google Play apps with >4.3 million downloads stole pics and pushed porn ads
The 29 apps concealed their malice and were hard for many infected users to uninstall.
What can this Japanese patent tell us about PS5 backward compatibility?
New filing could hold news about the PS5... or info on the existing PS4 Pro.
UAE buys its way toward supremacy in Gulf cyberwar, using US and Israeli experts
UAE hired ex-NSA employees to build a spying operation possibly targeting US citizens, others.
Itanium’s demise approaches: Intel to stop shipments in mid-2021
Intel's grand adventure with smart compilers and dumb processors comes to an end.
FaceTime bug lets callers hear you before you answer (really) [Updated]
The method is a little cumbersome, but it works—NYT now reports fix will arrive next week.
Samsung takes six months to update to Android 9 Pie
At least Samsung is on the latest version of Android this year.
Nintendo bringing Dr. Mario to iOS, Android this summer
Dr. Mario World will be "free to download with optional in-app purchases"
Watching brains on acid using an MRI
Acid may limit the brain's ability to tell internal ideas from external events.
More bad news for controversial 20-year-old claim of dark matter detection
Claimed signal might be due instead to helium leaking into the photomultiplier tubes.
In new Starship details, Musk reveals a more practical approach
Goal is "to reach the Moon as fast as possible."
Rain and red flags wreck the racing at the Rolex 24 at Daytona
The racing was great, but more than 10 hours were under caution or red flags.
Paralympic gold medalist Alex Zanardi on how he’s able to race at Daytona
The open-wheel champ is back in a race car, this time with a new hand control setup.
Umbrella Academy’s Netflix series plays like a long-winded “X-Men-llennials”
Netflix tries, fails to stretch a six-issue comic series into 500 minutes of good TV.
How 10 leading companies are trying to make powerful, low-cost lidar
Lidar is essential for self-driving cars—here's how some leading lidar sensors work.
Rocket Report: Secret CIA smallsat launcher, Falcon 9 test, Soyuz passes 50
The CIA envisioned this system as a rapid response capability.
Court dismisses Defense Distributed’s lawsuit over New Jersey “ghost gun” law
Judge avoids central question of whether NJ law barring gun file sales was constitutional.
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