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Mystery object waits nearly an hour between radio bursts
Unlike earlier object, the new source's pulses of radio waves are erratic.
The Motorola Edge 2024 comes to the US for $550
Motorola's Pixel 8a fighter is headed to a carrier store near you.
Toyota tests liquid hydrogen-burning Corolla in another 24-hour race
The experience has taught it how to improve thermal efficiency, Toyota says.
Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers
Canada says $200M in annual fees will support local news and other content.
Elon Musk’s X defeats Australia’s global takedown order of stabbing video
Australia drops censorship fight threatening Musk's X with $500K daily fine.
China’s plan to dominate EV sales around the world
US tariffs and European backlash have Chinese carmakers eyeing emerging markets.
Ancient Egyptian skull shows evidence of cancer, surgical treatment
An extraordinary new perspective in our understanding of the history of medicine."
Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10
Support ends next year, but Windows 10 remains the most-used version of the OS.
Countdown begins for third try launching Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been in prelaunch quarantine for six weeks.
SpaceX is about to launch Starship again—the FAA will be more forgiving this time
The FAA has approved a license for SpaceX's fourth Starship launch, set for Thursday.
Flawed, scandalous trials tank FDA expert support for MDMA therapy
Bias, missing data, and claims of a new-age cult overshadow positive patient results.
The Hubble Space Telescope has lost a majority of its gyroscopes
"We do not see Hubble as being on its last legs."
Ex-OpenAI staff call for “right to warn” about AI risks without retaliation
Open letter argues for AI whistleblower provisions due to lack of government oversight.
London hospitals declare emergency following ransomware attack
Attack takes out third-party testing and diagnostics provider critical to care.
New recycling method makes solar cells even more environmentally friendly
All the major elements in a solar panel can be reclaimed using less energy.
“Definitely cancel”: Max subs advise churn after 2nd price hike in 17 months
Monthly ad-free subscriptions cost $1 more.
Google changes repair policy after criticism of third-party parts ban
Google previously said it would not return mailed-in devices using "unauthorized" parts.
Zoom CEO envisions AI deepfakes attending meetings in your place
Eric Yuan told The Verge that "digital twins" are the future of work.
What kind of bug would make machine learning suddenly 40% worse at NetHack?
One day, a roguelike-playing system just kept biffing it, for celestial reasons.
New trailer for Alien: Romulus just wants to give us a big, warm face-hug
Beware abandoned space stations "haunted" by xenomorphs.
GameStop stock influencer Roaring Kitty may lose access to E-Trade, report says
E-Trade fears restricting influencer's trading may trigger boycott, sources say.
The 2024 Subaru Solterra is nimble but sorely lacks range, personality
Slow charging and inefficient driving, Solterra is no electric WRX or Forester.
ISPs seek halt of net neutrality rules before they take effect next month
Fate of net neutrality may hinge on Supreme Court's "major questions" doctrine.
Google’s AI Overviews misunderstand why people use Google
Answers that are factually "wrong" are only part of the problem.
Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned
Op-ed: The risks to Recall are way too high for security to be secondary.
Nvida emails: Elon Musk diverting Tesla GPUs to his other companies
The Tesla CEO is accused of diverting resources from the company again.
Surgeons remove pig kidney transplant from woman
No rejection, just a matter of blood flow.
Intel details new Lunar Lake CPUs that will go up against AMD, Qualcomm, and Apple
Lunar Lake returns to a more conventional-looking design for Intel.
Ticketmaster hacked in what’s believed to be a spree hitting Snowflake customers
Researcher says Snowflake customers hit by mass scraping ... "but nobody noticed."
Much-derided BMI is useful for assessing fat levels in kids, study suggests
Kids with high BMI were 29 times more likely to have high fat mass, study finds.
PlayStation VR2’s PC adapter hits this August, with missing features
You can play Steam games on it, but many of the modern tricks are disabled.
China lands on the Moon again, taking another step toward human missions
The most dominant space storyline for the rest of this decade is the US-China race.
Daisy Ridley trained for months to play first woman to swim English Channel
Siobhan-Marie O'Connor: "There were so many different swimming elements to the role."
Google accidentally published internal Search documentation to GitHub
Commit snafu slapped an irrevocable Apache 2.0 license on confidential API Docs.
Spotify raising prices by up to $3 as frustrated subs beg it to “just do music”
Spotify last raised prices in July 2023.
Ridiculous, inventive party pack Sportsfriends is now free on PC and PlayStation
Couch co-op collection lets you compete on the screen and in each other's face.
Nvidia jumps ahead of itself and reveals next-gen “Rubin” AI chips in keynote tease
"I'm not sure yet whether I'm going to regret this," says CEO Jensen Huang at Computex 2024.
Think EVs are too expensive? Here are 11 for under $40K.
The average new car costs more than $47,000-here are 17 EVs for less than that.
Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X
It remains unclear if X can detect nonconsensual sex images at scale.
No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making huge strides.
New model that predicts global weather can run on a single desktop computer.
AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 9000 desktop chips and the Zen 5 architecture arrive in July
But AMD says AM4 will hang around for budget PCs well into 2025.
For the second time in two years, AMD blows up its laptop CPU numbering system
AMD reverses course on decoder ring" numbering system for laptop CPUs.
AMD intros Ryzen AI 300 chips with Zen 5, better GPU, and hugely improved NPU
High-end Ryzen laptop chips combine big and little Zen cores for the first time.
To pee or not to pee? That is a question for the bladder—and the brain
The basic urge to pee is surprisingly complex and can go awry as we age.
Is a colonial-era drop in CO₂ tied to regrowing forests?
Carbon dioxide dropped after colonial contact wiped out Native Americans.
Boeing’s Starliner test flight scrubbed again after hold in final countdown
The ground launch sequencer computer called a hold at T-minus 3 minutes, 50 seconds.
Here’s why a Japanese billionaire just canceled his lunar flight on Starship
"I feel terrible making the crew members wait longer."
The refreshed 2024 Hyundai Elantra N remains a darn good enthusiast car
Good engine, great front-end feel, so-so manual gearshift, and under $34,000.
Daily Telescope: The most distant galaxy found so far is a total surprise
"Its discovery has profound implications."
Nitrogen-using bacteria can cut farms’ greenhouse gas emissions
Nitrogen fertilizers get converted to nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas.
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