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Updated 2024-11-23 22:30
Why scientists are making transparent wood
The material is being exploited for smartphone screens, insulated windows, and more.
A locally grown solution for period poverty
A Kenyan tinkerer and Stanford engineer team up to make maxi pads from agave fibers.
The quest to turn basalt dust into a viable climate solution
Sprinkling rock dust on farmland to soak up atmospheric carbon will be tested at large scale.
Hubble back in service after gyro scare—NASA still studying reboost options
NASA is still evaluating Hubble servicing studies from SpaceX and other companies.
EU agrees to landmark rules on artificial intelligence
Legislation lays out restrictive regime for emerging technology.
Revisiting the Ford Mustang Mach-E—how’s the pony EV doing 3 years later?
This midsize crossover EV has a lot more competition than when it debuted in 2021.
FDA approves first CRISPR therapy—here’s how it works against sickle cell
The landmark treatment turns on another blood protein that prevents sickling.
HP printer app is installing on PCs whether they have HP printers or not
Appears to be a Microsoft Store bug; MS says printers should mostly still work.
Apple exec departure leads to major iPhone, Apple Watch reshuffle
Tang Tan is leaving the company, and multiple people will shift to take his place.
Verizon fell for fake “search warrant,” gave victim’s phone data to stalker
Verizon tricked by fake cop, fake search warrant despite obvious warning signs.
Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years
Krasue infects telecom firms in Thailand using techniques for staying under the radar.
Worm’s rear end develops its own head, wanders off to mate
The butt even grows its own eyes, antennae, and brain.
Reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes
Add to a charity haul that's already raised over $14,000 in less than two weeks.
Round 2: We test the new Gemini-powered Bard against ChatGPT
We run the models through seven categories to determine an updated champion.
Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts
Does this mean YouTube Podcasts is ready for prime time?
Ford F-150 Lightnings will soon offer home AC power, possibly cheaper than grid
It's only one truck and one thermostat, but it could be the start of a V2H wave.
After losing everywhere else, Elon Musk asks SCOTUS to get SEC off his back
Musk's last-ditch effort to terminate settlement over "funding secured" tweets.
Marbled paper, frosty fireworks among 2023 Gallery of Fluid Motion winners
Annual showcase highlights "captivating science," "breathtaking beauty" of fluid motion.
Gene variants that promote having more sex and kids diminish your life span
A literal life-or-death balance, playing out at the level of individual genes.
Google’s best Gemini AI demo video was fabricated
Google takes heat for a misleading AI demo video that hyped up its GPT-4 competitor.
Daily Telescope: Seeing stars with an iPhone in the bottom of the Grand Canyon
"There I was, flat on my back on a sand berm, with the best camera I had."
The real research behind the wild rumors about OpenAI’s Q* project
OpenAI hasn't said what Q* is, but it has revealed plenty of clues.
Against the Storm feels like WarCraft without the war, and it’s weirdly calming
Build a town, direct its workers, and be pleasantly tranquil as it washes away.
Rocket Report: The final space shuttle stack; SpaceX may extend booster lifetimes
"God willing, the suborbital tests of the new generation 'bio-capsule' will be completely Iranian."
Fungi join the list of organisms that can control when ice forms
What's the advantage of triggering ice formation? It's not entirely clear.
Google calls Drive data loss “fixed,” locks forum threads saying otherwise
The fix will sift through app data for cached files, but users say it doesn't work.
EV battery swaps will be tested with the Fiat 500e in 2024
Ample's technology replaces the existing EV battery pack to allow battery swaps.
HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers
Opinion: HP's printer business practices have infuriated users for years.
Twitch exit from S. Korea is latest fallout from “sending-party-pays” model
Twitch: Network fees in Korea 10 times more expensive than in most countries.
New systemd update will bring Windows’ infamous Blue Screen of Death to Linux
Systemd is used by Debian, Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, and many downstream distros.
Meta defies FBI opposition to encryption, brings E2EE to Facebook, Messenger
Default E2EE rolling out now but will take months to reach all 1 billion users.
Report: Early 2024 will bring M3 MacBook Airs and first new iPads in over a year
New Airs should arrive alongside redesigned iPad Pros and a 12.9-inch iPad Air.
The Milky Way will probably devour all the tiny galaxies that surround it
The rapid disruption of smaller galaxies suggests they lack a bit of dark matter.
White House threatens to veto anti-EV bill just passed by US House
The bill would prevent the EPA from enforcing tougher new pollution standards.
US regulators will now have access to years of Binance transaction data
Binance and its customers will get "24/7, 365-days-a-year financial colonoscopy."
Daily Telescope: A colorful heart with a blue core
This nebula is found about 7,500 light-years from Earth.
Crossed wires led to high drama as NASA returned asteroid samples to Earth
"I was trying to mentally prepare myself to deal with a crashed capsule in the desert."
Ex-Twitter exec sues Musk, says he was fired for objecting to budget cuts
Fired exec suing Musk says he warned that budget cuts would harm FTC compliance.
Intel, of all companies, knocks AMD’s CPU numbering in now-deleted presentation
When it comes to recycling and rebranding old chips, no one's hands are clean.
Quantum computer performs error-resistant operations with logical qubits
QuEra gets ready for error correction, runs operations with over 40 logical qubits.
Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos
"Imagine with Meta AI" turns prompts into images, trained using public Facebook data.
After hack, 23andMe gives users 30 days to opt out of class-action waiver
Anyone who fails to opt out "will be deemed to have agreed to the new terms."
iMessage will reportedly dodge EU regulations, won’t have to open up
iMessage isn't popular enough with businesses to force interoperability.
Study: Why a spritz of water before grinding coffee yields less waste, tastier espresso
"It turns out you can't cut corners if you want to achieve excellence."
AMD’s new Ryzen 8040 laptop chips look a lot like the Ryzen 7040 CPUs
Improved AI performance is this familiar-looking chip's main innovation.
Cable lobby to FCC: Please don’t look too closely at the prices we charge
ISPs are scared about the FCC's plan to measure broadband affordability.
Google launches Gemini—a powerful AI model it says can surpass GPT-4
Google claims Gemini beats GPT-4 in "30 of the 32 widely used academic benchmarks."
Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data
Apple to update transparency report to break out push notification data requests.
Volumetric LED candle looks the same from any angle—and looks like amazing work
Re-creating a candle's multi-angle glow requires a lot of small-scale soldering.
Google Search results are showing Reddit URLs altered to include a slur
Google "indexing those malformed URLs and serving them instead of the correct ones."
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