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Updated 2025-04-22 10:30
CDC recommends spring COVID booster for people 65 and up
The shot should be taken at least four months since the last COVID vaccination.
Speedy “SD Express” cards have gone nowhere for years, but Samsung could change that
Compatibility issues and thermals have, so far, kept SD Express from taking off.
That moment when you land on the Moon, break a leg, and are about to topple over
"We hit harder than expected and skidded along the way."
GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack
GitHub keeps removing malware-laced repositories, but thousands remain.
Paramount ends Warner Bros. Discovery merger talks, continues mulling sell-off
Report: Paramount still contemplating selling to Skydance Media.
Microsoft partners with OpenAI-rival Mistral for AI models, drawing EU scrutiny
15M euro investment comes as Microsoft hosts Mistral's GPT-4 alternatives on Azure.
The Xiaomi 14 Ultra sports a six-blade mechanical iris in the camera
Xiaomi's top-tier smartphone is dressed up with lots of "real camera" theatrics.
Close-up images of DART’s asteroid smashup reveal complex debris
A CubeSat trailed the DART asteroid impactor, capturing images of debris set loose.
Amazon refuses to pay screenwriter for the right to reboot Road House
Amazon Studios allegedly used AI to rush remake ahead of copyright termination.
Transparent Micro LED searches for purpose in Lenovo’s concept laptop
Prototype improves on older transparent laptop tech but lacks necessity.
Wendy’s clarifies plans for dynamic pricing experiment after backlash
Company speaks out after reports of "surge pricing" test led to calls for boycotts online.
Here’s what it’s like to charge an EV at Electrify America’s new station
The indoor charging station is exactly what EV drivers want and need.
SBF asks for 5-year prison sentence, calls 100-year recommendation “grotesque”
Bankman-Fried argues for 63 to 78 months, says he "is already being punished."
Caveat emptor: 90% of tattoo inks have unlabeled or mislabeled ingredients
Findings could help inform and shape emerging US policy on regulating tattoo inks.
Amazon to spend $1 billion on startups that combine AI with robots
We're also a long way off from replacing all humans."
Dark Forces Remastered makes a classic Star Wars shooter feel fast and fluid
A faithful but generous repackaging of LucasArts' early Doom-alike.
Review: AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE GPU doesn’t quite earn its “7900” label
New $549 graphics card is the more logical successor to the RX 6800 XT.
How strong is Nintendo’s legal case against Switch-emulator Yuzu?
Nintendo is "basically taking the position that emulation itself is unlawful."
Smallish car, biggish price—we try out the 2024 BMW X2 M35i
We drive the new Sports Activity Coupe, but there's no EV version for the US market.
OpenAI accuses NYT of hacking ChatGPT to set up copyright suit
OpenAI bizarrely" mischaracterizes hacking, NYT lawyer says.
It turns out that Odysseus landed on the Moon without any altimetry data
"Hours after we got off the launch pad, we almost lost the spacecraft."
After a decade of stops and starts, Apple kills its electric car project
Report claims Apple leadership worried profit margins simply wouldn't be there.
Brutally bludgeoned “Vittrup Man” went from forager to farmer before his death
The skull was shattered by at least eight blows before the body was tossed into a peat bog.
Hackers backed by Russia and China are infecting SOHO routers like yours, FBI warns
Six years on, routers remain a favorite post for concealing malicious activities.
Maybe, just maybe, Boeing’s Starliner will finally fly astronauts this spring
The first launch of astronauts on Boeing's Starliner capsule is targeted for April 22.
Nintendo’s lost 1990s “VR” console comes to 3DS thanks to a remarkable emulator
Stereoscopic emulator does what Nintendon't (anymore).
Judge issues restraining order keeping DOE from tracking bitcoin miners
The Department of Energy wants to know how 2% of the US's electricity is being used.
Amazon bricks long-standing Fire TV apps with latest update
Affected apps include programs that let you bypass the Fire OS home screen.
Samsung’s Galaxy Ring is Big Tech’s first swing at the smart ring market
Samsung showed off the ring behind a glass case and dripped out a few details.
Cops called after parents get tricked by AI-generated images of Wonka-like event
Dull in-person warehouse for kids doesn't live up to technicolor AI-generated promo images.
Apple under fire for disabling iPhone web apps—EU asks developers to weigh in
EU sent queries to Apple and app developers as Apple kills home screen web apps.
Meta will start collecting “anonymized” data about Quest headset usage
Info on hand/eye tracking, "physical environment," and more could be included.
Automotive crash testing just got harder in 2024—which OEMs did well?
Headlights, pedestrian detection, and backseat safety all get more scrutiny.
How would an AI turn out if you raised it like a child?
Stick a camera on a child, then feed what it captures to an AI, and it almost works.
Varda’s drug-cooking Winnebago will be remembered as a space pioneer
A small capsule containing pharmaceuticals made in space landed in Utah last week.
New data shows which states were more deadly for pedestrians in 2023
Preliminary road-safety data for the first half of 2023 has been published.
SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it clears an FAA hurdle
"Several engines began shutting down before one engine failed energetically."
Kagan: Florida social media law seems like “classic First Amendment violation”
In oral arguments, Justice Thomas asks who speaks when an algorithm moderates.
Surprising link found between niacin and risk of heart attack and stroke
Breakdown products of niacin, aka Vitamin B3, may spur vascular inflammation.
Apple Vision Pro’s components cost $1,542—but that’s not the full story
The OLED displays account for more than a third of the component costs.
Wear OS “Hybrid” design has two OSes, two CPUs, “100 hour” battery life
Wear OS + Snapdragon uses too much power, so what if we just turned it off?
Sony claims to offer subs “appropriate value” for deleting digital libraries
Customers confused as Sony claims to work with affected users individually.
Age of Empires 2 gets another expansion 25 years later, and deservedly so
The rest of 2024 promises a whole lot for Age of Empires fans across all titles.
Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death
So what are we to make of this? Is Odysseus a success or a failure?
Why new fan blog “Final Fantasy VIII is the Best” is the best
A love letter to a bygone era of personal blogs and fan sites.
Windows security updates could come with fewer reboots beginning later this year
"Hotpatching" originated in Windows Server, cuts way down on update reboots.
The world’s largest battery in a smartphone—a 28,000 mAh, 27-mm-thick brick
The only downside: It's the size of three iPhones stacked on top of each other.
Unsealed court doc shows why Apple rejected Microsoft’s offer to buy Bing
Apple exec: Microsoft putting $100 billion into Bing was "not significant at all."
Ford’s wacky electric Supervan 4.2 sets a new lap record at Bathurst
With Romain Dumas behind the wheel, it lapped Mt Panorama in under 2 minutes.
Final images of Ingenuity reveal an entire blade broke off the helicopter
This new data should help us understand Ingenuity's final moments on Mars.
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