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Updated 2024-11-23 19:00
As Vulcan nears debut, it’s not clear whether ULA will live long and prosper
This marks an absolutely pivotal moment for the 20-year-old launch company.
A week with a Ford F-150 Lightning: This truck is too big for city life
The big electric pickup truck is out of the suburbs and out of its element.
Daily Telescope: A crab found in the night sky rather than the world’s oceans
Oh, to have seen this supernova back in the day.
Rocket Report: SpaceX’s record year; Firefly’s Alpha rocket falls short
Living downrange from one of China's launch sites sure doesn't seem safe.
Elon Musk: SpaceX needs to build Starships as often as Boeing builds 737s
"Ship production needs to be roughly an order of magnitude higher than booster production."
A “ridiculously weak“ password causes disaster for Spain’s No. 2 mobile carrier
BGP tampering caused by poor security hygiene causes major outage for Orange Espana.
1D Pac-Man is the best game I’ve played in 2024 (so far)
An appreciation of "small games" and the people who make them.
How to avoid the cognitive hooks and habits that make us vulnerable to cons
Psychologists behind "invisible gorilla" study are back with a new book: Nobody's Fool.
Portal 64 is an N64 demake of Valve’s classic, now available as a “First Slice”
It's shocking how good the Portal Gun feels on late 1990s tech.
Wearable solar-powered gadget automatically regulates body temperature
Made of flexible polymers, it could potentially fit in technical clothing.
TurboTax maker Intuit’s $100 million tax credits challenged by US lawmakers
Senators want full accounting of research expenses behind "massive tax breaks."
23andMe told victims of data breach that suing is futile, letter shows
Victims are still arguing that 23andMe's security measures were inadequate.
All Science journals will now do an AI-powered check for image fraud
It will only catch the most blatant problems, but it's definitely overdue.
Qualcomm’s XR2+ Gen 2 SoC sets up a wave of Apple Vision Pro competitors
Qualcomm says five companies are working on new headsets.
Technical headaches put the brakes on GM’s big EV push
GM sold a record number of EVs in 2023, but only thanks to the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV.
Daily Telescope: A view of our star as Earth reaches perihelion
There is a bit of irony for those of us who live in the Northern Hemisphere.
Vectrex reborn: How a chance encounter gave new life to a dead console
40 years later, it's time for the Vectrex to shine.
The Dell XPS laptop, as we know and love it, is no more
2024 laptops all look like the XPS 13 Plus. XPS 15, 17, and 2-in-1 going away.
Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.
Mandiant, the security firm Google bought for $5.4 billion, gets its X account hacked
Scammer impersonates legitimate cryptocurrency wallet, then pivots to trolling Mandiant.
Forget the proverbial wisdom: Opposites don’t really attract, study finds
Educational attainment, substance use were most common shared traits among couples.
ChatGPT bombs test on diagnosing kids’ medical cases with 83% error rate
It was bad at recognizing relationships and needs selective training, researchers say.
Cobalt Core is a tight, funny roguelike deck-builder deserving of many runs
It's got style, dialogue, and even a plot on top of procedural card battling.
Samsung sets Galaxy S24 launch for Jan. 17; here’s what to expect
The S24 Ultra gets a titanium body, while the smaller models look like an iPhone.
SpaceX charged with illegally firing workers behind anti-Musk open letter
SpaceX fired workers after open letter called Musk's behavior an "embarrassment."
Millions still haven’t patched Terrapin SSH protocol vulnerability
Terrapin isn't likely to be mass-exploited, but there's little reason not to patch.
Crypto hedge fund CEO may not exist; probe finds no record of identity
HyperVerse's collapse caused an estimated $1.3 billion in customer losses.
Fossil evidence of photosynthesis gets a billion years older
Remains of cells from two sites show structures similar to those in present cells.
Ford kills some F-150 Lightning trims, raises prices on others
The price increase follows hefty price cutting six months ago.
Pornhub pulls out of Montana, NC as age-verification battle rages on
Pornhub rallies users in eight states to demand device-based age verification.
Starlink launches first “cellphone towers in space” for use with LTE phones
T-Mobile field tests begin soon-texting to be available before voice and data.
Jellyfish regenerate lost tentacles, and now we know how
Jellyfish regeneration looks a lot like that of amphibians and other animals.
Amazon marketplace crackdown has sellers searching for legal help
Clean-up drive has led to some small businesses having their accounts suspended.
Tesla sold 1.8 million electric vehicles in 2023
It met its sales goal, but growth is well below CEO Elon Musk's stated target.
It’s rebels vs. Imperialist forces in Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver trailer
"Their nightmare is us fighting together to defend something we love."
A commander’s lament on the loss of a historic SpaceX rocket
This rocket restored NASA crew launches to US soil, then launched 18 more times.
Ancient desert mega-structures were planned using carved maps to scale
"This calls for the representation of space in a way not seen at this time."
34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen”
BlueScuti forces the game to crash after 40 minutes and 1,511 lines.
Vizio settles for $3M after saying 60 Hz TVs had 120 Hz “effective refresh rate”
Vizio claimed backlight scanning made refresh rates seem twice as high.
Since Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase, firm reportedly lost 72% of its value
Fidelity cuts value of X stake, implying 72% drop since Musk paid $44 billion.
One of Tekken 8’s “colorblind” modes is causing migraines, vertigo, and debate
Advocates say the intention is good, but the application is dangerous.
The oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploaded
86-DOS would later be bought by Microsoft and take over the computing world.
Early Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain—and AI is already on the case
Experimental AI image generator trained on Disney's 1928 cartoons can make eldritch horrors.
Michael Cohen gave his lawyer fake citations invented by Google Bard AI tool
Disbarred Cohen passed fake cases to his lawyer, who didn't do a fact-check.
The Pixel 8 parts store goes live, should be up for 7 years
A whopping $200 for the camera assembly headlines the parts list.
US dodges delay of Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentencing by dropping second trial
SBF's sentencing remains scheduled for March 28.
Big Pharma to raise US list prices of 500 drugs in January: Report
The hikes come as drug makers face new federal rules to try to drag down prices.
Final reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes
Enter by the end of the day and add to this year's charity haul of over $26,000.
It’s a new year, and these are now the only EVs that get a tax credit
Strict rules about battery components from China make most plug-ins ineligible.
2024 may be a year of reckoning for Apple’s $85 billion services business
US court cases and tougher EU regulation will pose challenges to Apple's bottom line.
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