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Sprint announces highest profit ever after saying it needs T-Mobile merger
If Sprint were in worse shape, T-Mobile merger deal might not have happened.
Time is running out if you want to opt out of Windows Insider previews
Act now, or you'll soon be running a preview of the next big update.
Massive E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce turns deadly
Toss out all your romaine lettuce—unless you’re certain it’s NOT from Yuma, AZ.
The Nokia 6.1 launches in the US for $269
An aluminum phone with a Snapdragon 630, stock Android, and a reasonable price.
Block 5 rocket launch marks the end of the beginning for SpaceX
Elon Musk seems to be happy with the nine-engine booster—so, he's moving on.
Hulu will soon offer offline viewing and episode downloads
Offering offline downloads with ads is a first from a major industry player.
Electric vehicles to clean up Beijing? Depends on how they’re charged
Mix of wind and coal power means fast-charging could be counterproductive.
Woman receives $5,751 ER bill—for an ice pack and a bandage
The hospital zeroed out the bill after a reporter asked questions.
Neanderthals etched a message on this 36,000-year-old stone tool
The marks on this flint flake may be the latest evidence of Neanderthal symbolism.
Drive-by Rowhammer attack uses GPU to compromise an Android phone
JavaScript based GLitch pwns browsers by flipping bits inside memory chips.
Oakland passes “strongest” surveillance oversight law in US
"They are even being exploited by the federal government to fuel mass deportations."
In financial call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk details lessons from “FluffBot”
Musk details a few nodes in production that had been causing trouble.
Oculus reveals its next big VR trick: Wider-FOV lenses that automatically move
"Half Dome" prototype details trickle out during Facebook's F8 Developer Conference.
Installation costs so much that it’s better to use expensive solar panels
Expensive yet efficient may work out economically.
Nikola Motors sues Tesla for $2 billion over alleged design-patent infringement
Nikola: Tesla's cabin design is substantially similar to its Nikola One truck.
Despite backlash, loot boxes could be essential to gaming’s future
Analysis sees loot box spending ballooning 62 percent, to $47 billion, by 2022.
Amazon blocks domain fronting, threatens to shut down Signal’s account
Move makes evasion of Middle Eastern countries' censorship of Signal more difficult.
Cambridge Analytica shuts down after Facebook user data scandal
Company's CEO, Alexander Nix, was suspended in March 2018.
Why you shouldn’t freak out about CDC’s insect-spread disease counts tripling
Sixty percent of the rise is from Zika, which mainly affected US territories in one year.
Mobile gaming cements its dominance, takes majority of worldwide sales
Smartphones and tablets have moved from a gaming niche to the main market mover.
FCC Republican gets official warning after pushing for Trump’s re-election
O'Rielly broke government ethics law; could be punished if he does it again.
LG G7 hands-on—LG adds a notched display, better speaker to the G6 formula
LG's G7 sticks pretty close to last year's design, just with a few upgrades.
This is what a payload fairing looks like as it returns from space
Reusing fairings would allow SpaceX to focus more on its next-generation rocket.
New court ruling could force Uber, Lyft to convert drivers to employees
California Supreme Court: It'll be tougher for firms to not have bona fide employees.
Elon Musk says don’t worry about Tesla’s burn rate—he might be right
History suggests Tesla's cashflow situation is likely to improve this year.
LG’s 2018 C8 and E8 TVs are here to prove OLED is finally mainstream
The cheaper B8 and higher-end W8 are still coming.
California net neutrality bill that AT&T hates is coming to New York, too
Bill is moving through Calif. Senate and will be submitted in NY legislature.
Facebook building a “simple way to clear your cookies and history”
The British Parliament has also issued an ultimatum for CEO's testimony.
SpaceX and Boeing spacecraft may not become operational until 2020
"The contractors have had difficulty executing aggressive schedules."
Dealmaster: Get a Crucial MX500 500GB SSD for $115
Plus deals on gaming PCs, iPads, Bluetooth headphones, gaming mice, and more.
Random quantum circuit easiest way to beat classical computer
Researchers suggest modeling chaotic circuits to demonstrate quantum supremacy.
Amazon Prime members can get monthly box of kids’ books with new subscription
Charging $22.99 for boxes that include either two or four books.
Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook Dating
"Totally opt-in" but apparently has rich ties to default profile data.
T-Mobile and Sprint don’t need to merge for 5G—they said so two months ago
AT&T made the same claims—about 4G—when it tried to buy T-Mobile in 2011.
Iran blocks Telegram, pushes replacement with “Death to America” emoji
Citing use by “pornographers and terrorists,” Iran makes block permanent.
Oculus Go review: The wireless-VR future begins today for only $199
Low-priced VR limits can't be ignored, but the great absolutely outweighs the bad.
Early Middle-Eastern culture had a thing for gazelle scapula
Rows of notches in gazelle bones may be the unique signature of a Paleolithic culture.
Firefox will show sponsored content that’s personalized but private
Sponsored content will use technology from Pocket, which Mozilla acquired last year.
Facebook begins asking if every post you see is hate speech
Odd behavior pops up hours before Facebook's annual developer-filled conference.
Samsung launches preorders for the Galaxy S9 in 128GB, 256GB storage varieties
Samsung is charging $50 to jump up a storage tier, shipments start May 18.
Autonomous cars won’t solve traffic, but the Eli Zero could
It won't work for everyone, but as a second car for city dwellers it looks great.
As Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze comes to Switch, it disappears from Wii U eShop
2014 release now only available as $20 disc ahead of $60 Switch launch.
Earth’s magnetic field may not be flipping
While the magnetic field is changing, geology suggests our poles won't trade places.
Fitbit wants to more easily give data to doctors with Google partnership
Medical records and fitness tracker data come together with a new Google API.
Phone maker settles charges it let partner collect customers’ text messages
BLU phones sent a massive amount of data to firmware and data-mining provider.
After data “clash” report, WhatsApp founder says he’s leaving Facebook
News marks the second WhatsApp co-founder departure in less than a year.
Boeing slams the Falcon Heavy rocket as “too small”
"SpaceX's rocket is a smaller type of rocket that can't meet NASA's deep-space needs."
TCL’s follow-up to last year’s popular Roku 4K TVs starts at $649, ships tomorrow
Last year's affordable 4K HDR TVs see slight improvements in the 6 series.
Russia’s floating nuclear power plant is not the first of its kind
A 10MW nuclear reactor floated in a Panamanian lake during the Vietnam War.
A first look at Ubuntu 18.04 LTS desktop
Ubuntu's long-term support desktop is a welcome refresh.
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