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Electric vehicle price is rising, but cost-per-mile is falling
Low-cost EVs only really hit the market in 2017.
A high profile SpaceX investor tells a datacenter crowd why he believes in Musk
This July, Luke Nosek reportedly left a big investment firm to focus on SpaceX fundraising.
Equifax CIO, CSO “retire” in wake of huge security breach
Press release: "The company's review of the facts is still ongoing."
Alphabet might be about to invest $1 billion in Lyft
The ride-hailing company continues to make friends and partners.
Dealmaster: Get a Dell Inspiron Core i7 laptop with a 512GB SSD for $580
Plus iPhone 8 pre-orders, deals on ThinkPad laptops, and more.
Musical vaginas, dining on humans, and cat fluidity honored with Ig Nobels
The awards that dare to ask whether you can feel your ears growing.
8,500 Verizon customers disconnected because of “substantial” data use
Roaming data use makes customers unprofitable, so Verizon will cut them off.
Here’s a real-life, slimy example of Uber’s regulator-evading software
"In using Greyball, Uber has sullied its own reputation," Portland says.
Bitcoin and Ethereum plunge on Chinese crackdown [Updated]
Bitcoin has lost 25 percent of its value since September 1.
Bungie explains how white supremacist symbol ended up in Destiny 2
"We know there was no degree of malicious intent from anyone on our team."
It looks like China is shutting down its blockchain economy
Leaked regulation orders Chinese Bitcoin exchanges to shut down.
Diplomats in Cuba have been under attack—but the weaponry is a mystery
Some heard noises, some felt nothing at all. Then the symptoms started.
Comcast said he used too much data—so he opted to live without home Internet
Man said he didn't go over his data cap; Comcast told him to trust the meter.
Google Chrome will block autoplay video starting January 2018
Only muted video and user "interest in the media" will be allowed by default.
After orbiting Saturn for 13 years, Cassini has become part of the planet
"It’s kind of like a death in the family."
Build, gather, brawl, repeat: The history of real-time strategy games
As we wait on a new Age of Empires this fall, let's revisit the RTS genre's highs and lows.
FrontRow camera review: A body camera for the always-recording millennial
Would you wear an Android-based, pendant-like camera around your neck? See it for yourself.
Female ex-Googlers sue, claiming sex discrimination
Three former Googlers say women were funneled into less lucrative “job ladders.”
Google stops challenging most US warrants for data on overseas servers
Microsoft keeps up the challenges while Supreme Court remains silent.
The near-final macOS High Sierra golden master has been seeded to devs
The seed is expected to closely resemble the public launch due September 25.
Equifax hackers stole data for 200k credit cards from transaction history
Credit bureau held card data for transactions dating back to November 2016.
Women less interested in sex, except when they ditch “mastering their domain”
Sex study suggests women’s lack of interest in sex isn’t a sign of their dysfunction.
Futurama returns as a one-time-only radio drama with full voice cast
Nerdist co-production casts Chris Hardwick as the double-length episode’s villain.
Teen sends dick pic to 22-year-old woman, now he’s a child pornographer
Washington Supreme Court: Child porn laws apply even if perp, victim are the same.
Scammers keep trying to sell fake Equifax facts
Site offers “proof” of access to Equifax data, but it all appears to be fake.
Daimler has new electric trucks and a buyer for them: The United Parcel Service
“The game has started” a Daimler official told Reuters.
New evidence of Viking warrior women might not be what it seems
Experts cast doubt on a recent DNA discovery in a mysterious Swedish grave.
Microsoft unveils Project Honolulu, a new GUI for server administration
Scripting and the command line are important—but not the only way to do things.
Azure Confidential Computing will keep data secret, even from Microsoft
Virtual machines and hardware features will provide secrecy.
Appeals court rejects Uber’s attempt to dodge trial: No arbitration
And, Levandowski can’t stop Waymo lawyers from reading a report on his startup.
Quantum computers reach deeper, find ground state of simple hydrides
Six qubits is enough to determine the ground state of three simple molecules.
FTC launches Equifax breach probe, warns consumers about credit scammers
Posing as Equifax employees, crooks are calling to verify your account information.
Developers say a Star Citizen guild did not get $45,000 refund [Updated]
Cloud Imperium says refund was actually for just $330
Less than 24 hours until Cassini probe crashes into Saturn
Running out of fuel, NASA will crash its probe to prevent contamination.
ISPs claim a privacy law would weaken online security and increase pop-ups
California to vote on privacy law opposed by AT&T, Comcast, Charter, and Verizon.
Combined qubit may bring scaleable quantum computing to silicon
Phosphorous-in-silicon qubits are useless until reinforced by a nuclear qubit.
SpaceX proves it’s not afraid to fail by releasing a landing blooper reel
"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating."
Blizzard: Toxic Overwatch players are hurting the game’s development
This is why we can't have nice things, apparently.
Apple says Face ID didn’t actually fail during its iPhone X event
The iPhone maker says its new face unlocking tech worked as intended.
Hyperloop One announces 10 routes it will study, partners with Colorado DOT
This Denver-based editor cautiously dreams of competition for I-25.
Hilarious, spectacular EVE betrayal destroys player group, costs trillions
Infighting and Cold War-style espionage led to largest theft in game’s history.
Coming October 4: The Google Pixel 2
The Pixel 2 will launch exactly one year after the Pixel 1.
Nintendo Switch lands Doom and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Plus, Nintendo's Arcade Archives retro classics, red JoyCon, and a Pokemon-themed 2DS.
Malicious apps with >1 million downloads slip past Google defenses twice
Malware scanners fail to detect 50 apps that charged for fake services.
Trump blocks Chinese purchase of US chipmaker over national security
Sale of Lattice Semiconductors is seen as a threat to national security.
Failure to patch two-month-old bug led to massive Equifax breach
Critical Apache Struts bug was fixed in March. In May, it bit ~143 million US consumers.
Remember the artist whose iPhone was searched at border? He’s suing the feds
"The border doctrine does not say that the Constitution doesn't exist at the border."
Martin Shkreli is headed to jail
Judge called Shkreli’s call to pluck Hillary Clinton’s hair “solicitation of assault.”
I sat in the seat suit of Ford’s fake self-driving car
Virginia Tech researchers made a fake self-driving car to test public reactions.
For some reason, Ron Paul has taken to Fox News to skewer SpaceX
“Allowing SpaceX to obtain a monopoly over launch services harms taxpayers.”
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