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Updated 2024-11-23 19:00
Samsung’s “Ballie” home robot is back, way bigger, and headed to production
Samsung jumps into the home robotics market with a bowling ball-sized robot.
Regulators aren’t convinced that Microsoft and OpenAI operate independently
EU is fielding comments on potential market harms of Microsoft's investments.
These are Honda’s concepts for its new family of EVs due in 2026
A production car based on the Saloon should go on sale in the US in two years.
FCC plans shutdown of Affordable Connectivity Program as GOP withholds funding
FCC must start winding down low-income program as Congress fails to add money.
First results are in: 2023 temperatures were stunningly warm
In the second half of the year, every month set a record.
Nvidia’s G-Sync Pulsar is anti-blur monitor tech aimed squarely at your eyeball
Branded monitors can sync pixels to backlighting, refresh rate, and GPU frames.
Chromium found in lead-tainted fruit pouches may explain contamination
Lead chromate, an artificial coloring, has been used in other spices to conceal poor quality.
Unity lays off an additional 25 percent of its staffers
1,800 newly announced job cuts come on top of 1,300 layoffs since mid-2022.
Seeking another Earth? Look for low carbon dioxide
In our own Solar System, Earth has far lower CO concentrations than its neighbors.
“We are worried,” says European rocket chief at prospect of launch competition
On the continent, Ariane 6 may be the last launcher with a monopoly.
Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware
Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication.
Daily Telescope: The Milky Way above one of my favorite places on Earth
This photo is really not that much different than what you'll see with the naked eye.
Cerne Abbas Giant is a depiction of Hercules
It's "just the most visible of a whole cluster of early medieval features in the landscape."
Intel’s CPU branding was already confusing, and today’s new CPUs made it worse
Some are 14th-gen Core and some are Core (Series 1), but they're the same thing.
Canonical wants better Snap support outside Ubuntu, based on latest hires
Returning developer says he might get to "change some of the old ideas."
LG OLED T is a transparent 77-inch TV that will arrive in 2024
Expect it to be extremely expensive.
Elon Musk’s X loses fight to disclose federal surveillance of users
Musk disappointed SCOTUS won't weigh harms of feds secretly spying on X users.
America’s first lunar lander in a half-century won’t reach the Moon
Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander appears to be stricken by a propellant leak.
iPhone owners get $92 payouts from Apple in phone-throttling settlement
Users had to submit claims by October 2020; finally got paid in January 2024.
Magic: The Gathering maker admits it used AI-generated art despite standing ban
One artist says he is "done" with the company after controversy.
Wi-Fi 7’s theoretical speeds make your Internet connection seem even more sad
More streams, bonded connections, and speeds you can't possibly achieve at home.
Oppo’s Find X7 Ultra has four 50 MP sensors, two periscope lenses
Pick from a 50 MP 3x telephoto with a huge sensor or a 50 MP 6x telephoto.
The situation with Astrobotic’s lunar lander appears to be quite dire
"We do not expect every launch and landing to be successful."
iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall after door plug blows off Alaska Air flight 1282
Still-working iPhone is one of two discovered after the airline accident, says NTSB.
They’re not cheap, but Nvidia’s new Super GPUs are a step in the right direction
RTX 4080, 4070 Ti, and 4070 Super arrive with price cuts and/or spec bumps.
Apple Vision Pro will launch Feb. 2, preorders start Jan. 19
Package includes 256GB storage and two headstraps; prescription lenses run $149.
Volkswagen is adding ChatGPT to its infotainment system
VW is using Cerence's Chat Pro, which now incorporates ChatGPT.
$329 Radeon 7600 XT brings 16GB of memory to AMD’s latest midrange GPU
Updated 7600 XT also bumps up clock speeds and power requirements.
AMD launches Ryzen 8000G desktop CPUs, with updated iGPUs and AI acceleration
But high platform costs make an iGPU-powered gaming desktop an iffy proposition.
AMD releases even more Ryzen 5000 CPUs, keeps its last-gen AM4 platform alive
New-old chips stick with the aging Zen 3, but could be good CPU upgrade options.
AI firms’ pledges to defend customers from IP issues have real limits
Indemnities offered by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are narrow.
ULA’s Vulcan rocket shot for the Moon on debut launch—and hit a bullseye
ULA's Vulcan rocket flew straight and true right out of the gate.
Daily Telescope: The Wizard Nebula captured above Germany
The stars in this cluster are estimated to be about 4 to 12 million years old.
What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks
Pi 5's speed makes it a useful and usable general-purpose desktop, with limits.
Navajo objection to flying human ashes to the Moon won’t delay launch
"They're not going to remove the human remains and keep them here on Earth."
East Coast land continues to collapse at a worrying rate
It's steadily sinking or subsiding, which is destabilizing levees, roads, and airports.
Big evolutionary change tied to lots of small differences
Lots of genes changed as a species of snail went from laying eggs to live births.
Here’s a first look at United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan rocket
ULA's first flight-ready Vulcan rocket is finally on the launch pad.
Experimental antibiotic kills deadly superbug, opens whole new class of drugs
The relatively large molecule clogs a transport system, leading to lethal toxicity.
Ivanti warns of critical vulnerability in its popular line of endpoint protection software
Customers of the Ivanti Endpoint Protection Manager should patch or mitigate ASAP.
Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal
Classics like the Ergonomic Keyboard should be available again this year.
Android users could soon replace Google Assistant with ChatGPT
The Android ChatGPT app is working on support for Android's assistant APIs.
Notre Dame cathedral first to use iron reinforcements in 12th century
Devastating 2019 fire gave scholars access to previously hidden parts of the cathedral.
Elon Musk drops price of X gold checks amid rampant crypto scams
Reports come the same week X reduced the cost of buying gold checkmarks.
Flurry of firmware updates makes Analogue Pocket an even better retro handheld
Display filters for FPGA cores, custom Game Boy color palettes, and more.
A complete (so far) Star Citizen ship collection now costs $48,000
Ars analysis finds per-ship costs have come down slightly, in real terms.
Consumer group wants to end $255M “gift card loophole” for Starbucks and others
Changes to Washington's gift card laws could affect cardholders nationwide.
How much detail is too much? Midjourney v6 attempts to find out
As Midjourney rolls out new features, it continues to make some artists furious.
Clicks is a $139 iPhone case for people who hate touchscreen typing
Each key has 0.22 mm of travel.
SpaceX sues US labor board, claims agency structure is unconstitutional
NLRB sued by SpaceX after accusing the company of illegally firing employees.
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