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On January 23rd, 2024 with 0 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: For a country that prides itself on being free, America does seem to have an awful lot of spying going...
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On January 23rd, 2024 with 0 comments
Netflix has acquired the exclusive rights to Raw as well as other programming from World Wrestling Entertainment, marking the streaming service's first big...
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On January 23rd, 2024 with 1 comments
AT&T, Google and Vodafone are investing a total of $206.5 million in AST SpaceMobile, a satellite manufacturer that plans to be the first space-based...
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Google,
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On January 23rd, 2024 with 25 comments
NASA announced Friday that it finally got a canister of asteroid dust open, four months after it parachuted down through the Earth's atmosphere into the Utah...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 33 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: Doctors are now being encouraged to consider more blood testing for PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals,"...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 6 comments
Kevin Purdy reports via Ars Technica: Sometimes, a great song can come from great pain. The Game Boy Advance (GBA), its software having crashed nearly two...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 58 comments
Thomas Claburn reports via The Register: A security researcher in Germany has been fined $3,300 for finding and reporting an e-commerce database vulnerability...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 2 comments
Sony has scrapped plans for a $10 billion merger of its Indian unit with Zee Entertainment, "ending a deal that could have created one of the South Asian...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 50 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechRadar: Thanks to new Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) research, which was part-funded by Lamborghini,...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 10 comments
To comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act, Meta is rolling out changes to give users in Europe the ability to unlink their Facebook, Messenger and Instagram...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 61 comments
According to analyst Min-Chi Kuo, Apple may have sold somewhere between 160,000 to 180,000 Vision Pro headsets during the past weekend. "This already far...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 107 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last Thursday, HP CEO Enrique Lores addressed the company's controversial practice of bricking printers...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 14 comments
Alphabet's lab for pioneering technology is laying off dozens of employees as it turns to outside investors to help fund its ventures. From a report: The...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 28 comments
Japan has become the fifth country in the world to soft-land a spacecraft on the Moon, using precision technology that allowed it to touch down closer to its...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 41 comments
AI can't replace the majority of jobs right now in cost-effective ways, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found in a study that sought to address fears...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 14 comments
Loughborough University will use holographic tech to beam in guest lecturers from around the globe, allowing students to interact with top international...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 57 comments
Exxon Mobil has filed a complaint in a Texas court seeking to block a climate proposal by activist investors from a shareholder vote in May. This marks Exxon's...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 50 comments
Entrepreneur Daniel Gross speculates about the wide-ranging economic, technological, geopolitical, and societal implications if advanced AI systems become...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 51 comments
The world's first routine vaccine programme against malaria has started in Cameroon, in a move projected to save thousands of children's lives across Africa....
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 90 comments
Jamie Bartlett, a technology columnist, argues that social media platforms constantly pressure users to share opinions on events they may not fully understand,...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 25 comments
Tens of thousands of people have fallen victim to predatory loan apps, which extort users using sensitive information from their phones. Google has changed its...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 10 comments
Terraform Labs, the company behind the stablecoin TerraUSD, which collapsed and roiled cryptocurrency markets in 2022, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 33 comments
theodp writes: OpenAI has banned the developer of a bot that mimicked Democratic White House hopeful Rep. Dean Phillips, the first known instance where the...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 44 comments
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is recommending that airlines check a second type of Boeing jet that uses the same kind of door plug as the one that...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 41 comments
It's the 50th anniversary of Devo, the geek-friendly, dystopia-themed band that combined synthesizers with showmanship, first founded in 1973.
As a new...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 36 comments
The Seattle Times reports:
Concerns have grown in recent weeks about data privacy and the ongoing impacts of a recent Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center...
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On January 22nd, 2024 with 51 comments
"Bell Labs, the historic headwaters of so many inventions that now define our digital age, is closing in Murray Hill," writes journalism professor Jeff Jarvis...
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On January 21st, 2024 with 68 comments
One man living in Virginia oversaw "the laundering of some $7 million in fraudulently obtained gift cards" from Walmart in an international operation which...
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On January 21st, 2024 with 99 comments
The pandemic may have proved to employeers that remote and flexible-work arrangements were viable — and changed the way we work forever. Axios writes:
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IT,
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On January 21st, 2024 with 66 comments
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Moves by Broadcom to shore up its $69 billion VMware acquisition, completed in November, include a streamlining of product...
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Virtualization,
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