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Super NES Classic pre-orders start later this month
Nintendo promises "significant amount" of consoles through end of the year.
Gruesome case of flesh-eating bacteria has beach city anxious, skeptical
A Facebook post drew attention, but authorities want more information.
As the Moon landing anniversary nears, Buzz Aldrin wants to shake NASA up
"We’re not going anywhere if we don’t do something about these issues."
Why the Bitcoin network just split in half and why it matters
Two rival versions of Bitcoin might be better than one.
IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge
Sputtered magnetic layer, lubricant, and new heads enable massive 200Gb/inch density.
The Lucid Air could be Tesla’s most credible rival—as long as it gets funding
The company has been in talks with possible buyers, including Ford Motor Company.
How America’s two greatest rocket companies battled from the beginning
SpaceX has brought competition into US aerospace. And it only gets hotter from here.
Baltimore police commissioner orders cops not to stage body cam footage
Prosecutors dropping 41 cases, and more on the way, because of body cam scandal.
Windows adding eye control to boost accessibility
Technology grew out of a 2014 hackathon event.
After three years, iPad sales are up again for Apple
Apple’s Q3 2017 earnings: Good growth overall, but China continues to be a sore spot.
Pot removed from controlled substance list under proposed legislation
The legislation tries to push the States into adopting pro-marijuana laws.
Governor angrily tweets about local TV station flying drone over his house
WDRB says it flew a drone “in accordance to the FAA rules to cover news.”
Microsoft offers new ways to buy Surfaces, cheapo VR headsets, and more
There’s a new Xbox One controller USB wireless stick for PCs, too.
USAF to buy unclaimed Russian 747s for Air Force One replacement
Now parked in the Mojave Desert, aircraft will still have to be upgraded.
Electric vehicle hopeful has been reneging on factories it hasn’t yet built [Updated]
The company is planning for a much smaller footprint.
How a hacked Amazon Echo could secretly capture your most intimate moments
Hack isn’t simple and doesn’t work on all devices, but it’s definitely doable.
Review: Why I can’t stop killing a cute, puzzle-solving dog named Fidel
Yes, there is now a Witness-like genre, but out-of-nowhere game has refreshing twist.
Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people
$9.25 monthly subsidy for mobile service would be eliminated by Republican bill.
“E-mail prankster” phishes White House officials; hilarity ensues
Tom Bossert gave up personal e-mail in response to fake Kushner dinner invite.
Sexually explicit game returns to Steam after adding “censor” bars
House Party criticized for "literally training its users in predatory tactics."
UCF kicker ruled ineligible, loses scholarship after monetizing YouTube videos
Athletes can make YouTube videos, but they can't make money off sports videos.
Nvidia and Remedy use neural networks for eerily good facial animation
The neural network just needs a few minutes of video, or even just an audio clip.
Galaxy Note 8 gets pictured, doesn’t fix S8 fingerprint sensor location
Imagine a squarer Galaxy S8 with dual cameras.
Next iPhone will have all-screen design, facial recognition tech, leaks suggest
An accident? It seems Apple pushed out an early version of the HomePod's firmware.
Europa’s future: A runaway greenhouse
A detailed climate model suggests that, as stars brighten, planets get hot fast.
How to build an ancient robot overlord
I took inspiration from the past for my new novel about robots, The Clockwork Dynasty.
Negative mass swing beats the uncertainty principle
Oscillators give an uncertainty-principle-defeating measurement an advantage.
How Gone Home’s creators rewound time to find their sci-fi future
A complete reboot, a return to gravity, and scattered documents that tell a story.
Second body cam video of Baltimore cops manufacturing evidence discovered
Second video prompts another dropped case—bringing it to nearly three dozen so far.
Kitchen sponges are festering germ dens—and sanitizing them doesn’t help
The old ‘pop it in the microwave/dishwasher’ trick is worthless, new study shows.
Apple can’t end lawsuit over “breaking” FaceTime on iPhone 4, judge rules
“FaceTime is a ‘feature’ of the iPhone and thus a component of the iPhone’s cost.”
All the things the Internet hates about the Tesla Model 3 have me excited
The screen doesn’t bother me, and if it’s fun to drive, they deserve to sell millions.
HBO confirms hack that reportedly included script to upcoming GoT episode
Video for episodes of Ballers and Room 104 also reportedly stolen.
Google’s new scheme to connect online to offline shopping scrutinized
"Consumers cannot easily avoid Google’s tracking of their in-store purchase behavior."
Kepler data may hold a Neptune-sized surprise, our first exomoon
Super-Jupiter shows hints that something big is orbiting it.
Sprint still seeks merger partner after being rejected by Charter
Sprint wanted to merge with Charter—or T-Mobile.
State attorneys general team up to scare you from “content theft sites”
PSA is titled "Be safe on the Internet to Protect Your Family."
FCC says its specific plan to stop DDoS attacks must remain secret
Revealing technical details would "undermine our system security," FCC says.
Niantic cancels European Pokémon Go gatherings after Chicago fiasco
Dev wants to "guarantee the best possible gameplay" after Chicago cell failure.
Can cellphones handle vehicle-to-vehicle comms better than radio networks?
It's going to be a long time before DSRC-equipped vehicles are common on our roads.
Con man, brilliant mind, or myth? Jury in Shkreli trial now decides
Colorful closing arguments cap weird trial for the ex-pharmaceutical exec.
Photons direct photons, giving hope for all-optical quantum logic
Photons talk to each other, making optical quantum computer more feasible.
Russian official on new US sanctions and NASA: “Nothing lasts forever”
This is not the first time Dmitry Rogozin has tweaked NASA.
The complete history of the IBM PC, part two: The DOS empire strikes
The real victor was Microsoft, which built an empire on the back of a shadily acquired MS-DOS.
RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56: AMD will “trade blows” with GTX 1080 for $499
$399 RX Vega 56 goes up against GTX 1070; RX Vega 64 goes for $499—both launch August 12.
LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without permission
A legal scholar calls LinkedIn's position “hugely problematic.”
What Fitbit needs to do to make a great smartwatch in 2017
One is on the way, but there are still many unanswered questions
Reddit users re-enable Alien: Isolation’s VR mode with unofficial patch
It’s a Rift-only alpha and lacks comfort features, but it works very, very well.
Better Call Saul needed 3D printing and an Arduino to arm Mike Ehrmantraut
BCS' SFX/props team is so good, it had to dumb-down some work to keep it legal.
Pokemon Go Fest’s blunders result in class-action lawsuit
What could go wrong other than spotty Internet, huge lines, and a server meltdown?
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