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"We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests
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Review: Spider-Noir recaptures the magic of a bygone era
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Trump admin tries again to revive dying coal industry
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The Fitbit Air is a good wearable weighed down by a chatty AI "coach"
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Not the next R8? Audi reveals mid-engined plug-in hybrid V8 Nuvolari.
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Rocket Report: Blue Origin explosion still making headlines; Impulse raises money
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Safety officials finally have a good idea of what a big rocket explosion can do
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Steve Jobs in Exile is a fine profile of Jobs' years at NeXT
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Review: AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE is a disappointing way to spend $549
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The skeptic’s guide to humanoid robots going viral on the Internet
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AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data
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These LLMs are the best at resisting Russian propaganda
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Dashlane explains how attackers managed to download encrypted password vaults
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Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling
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Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn't relax ban on foreign routers
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Bumblebees can spontaneously solve problems, study finds
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After 11 years at Mars, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft went out with a whisper
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It doesn't feel very agricultural: The 2026 Subaru Solterra review
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How some data center operators are tackling their water use problems
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My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with
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Used Waymo robotaxi batteries become backup storage for power grids
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Microsoft, Atom Computing, EeroQ update their quantum computing progress
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Possible flesh-eating screwworm infection detected in South Texas, USDA says
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Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out
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Can't make sense of Dashlane's vault theft notification? You're not alone.
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Google's new Gemma 4 12B model is designed to run on any laptop with 16GB of RAM
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Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE
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New social features further Plex’s evolution from media server business
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Autonomous vehicles were supposed to cut traffic—what if they don't?
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Inside Meta's attempts to play catch-up with AI
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Beans use an immune receptor to call in airstrikes on caterpillars
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How long will it take to rebuild Blue Origin's launch pad? We asked some SpaceX vets.
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Male bowerbirds hope to dazzle females with bright human-made items
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Microsoft plans Linux tools and an RTX Spark desktop for Windows developers
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Microsoft's Project Solara is an Android OS designed for agents instead of apps
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Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says
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If I had a hammer... it might actually be a rhino tooth
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Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center
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Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches
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Google announces deepfake call detection for Android, new AirDrop device support
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The truth lies in the past in Silo S3 trailer
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Number of suspected Ebola cases falls by hundreds as testing ramps up
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Why a Neo Geo port of Doom is functionally impossible
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In a surprise launch, China debuts another big rocket designed for reusability
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Blue Origin has set a very aggressive return-to-flight timeline
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Slate Auto gets serious about privacy for its bare-bones EV pickup
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Trump's DOE restarts energy rebate program with dumb conditions
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Impulse Space raises $500 million as orbital maneuvering race heats up
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AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.
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Why cats prefer silver vine to catnip and other May highlights
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Moderna gets $50 million to develop mRNA Ebola vaccine against Bundibugyo
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Hackers duped Meta AI support chatbot to steal celebrity Instagram accounts
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Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra looks like its first true MacBook Pro competitor
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Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel
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Doctors blast Trump for doubling down on vaccine policy modeled after Denmark
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Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman after multiple ChatGPT-linked murders
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From 15 hours to one minute: How AI/ML is speeding up GM's development
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Allegedly trashing Airbnbs to test robots puts startup in legal trouble
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AMD extends Socket AM5 support through at least 2029; AM4 refuses to die
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ROG Xbox Ally X20 adds OLED screen, control upgrades
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Nvidia RTX Spark comes to Windows PCs with Arm CPU, RTX GPU, and unified memory
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Intel: Our upcoming AI chip will be cheaper, run cooler than Nvidia, AMD options
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An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years
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On its 40th anniversary, we reassess 1986's SpaceCamp
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They call it stupid hot for a reason: Heat muddles animal brains
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Grifters, cynics, and true believers: The family tree of vaccine opponents
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Environmentalists turn out in force to oppose Trump coal ash rollbacks
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Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time
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Kenyan court blocks Trump admin from dumping Ebola-exposed Americans there
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Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled
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Analysis of Texas measles outbreak shows just how dangerous virus is
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House of the Dragon S3 trailer revels in dragons, fire, and blood
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Trump FCC warns all broadcasters to follow orders or be punished like ABC
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DOJ sues states that rejected ICE requests for undercover license plates
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Startup offers free home cleaning—if it can record it all for robot training
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After years of stability, F1 reliability can no longer be taken for granted
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Severed sea cucumber appendages don't seem to die
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Rocket Report: A dark day for Blue Origin; Pentagon eyes new launch site
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Here's why the failure of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is so catastrophic
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These researchers would be in Africa fighting ebola—but Trump cut their funding
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The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida
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2027 Audi RS5 first drive: A performance PHEV with split personalities
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LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false
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Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code
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US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds
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Researchers develop a new process to get lithium out of rocks
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FBI says Google engineer used internal search data to win $1.2M on Polymarket
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A respectable port of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition invades macOS
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Apple working to cram massive Gemini model into iPhone to power new Siri
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Amazon turns to Jeff Bezos' other company to do some heavy lifting
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How pigeons exploit magnetic fields for navigation
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Intel makes a bid for handheld gaming PCs with new Arc G3 processors
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Trump loses more control over AI regulation as Illinois passes landmark law
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Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike
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Bad cholesterol slashed 62% by single dose of gene-editing drug in small trial
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Forecasters predict below-average hurricane season, advise against complacency
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California defeats Tesla's attempt to throw out racial discrimination lawsuit
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Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity
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Mystery GPS jammer in Iran becomes test for NASA satellites’ capabilities
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Mina the Hollower is the best old-school action adventure I've played in a while
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Nvidia bets $150B on Taiwan as Trump's plan to make US an AI hub backfires
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Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent ad
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Valve's Steam Deck is back in stock after months, but you won't like it
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Trump admin to block Ebola-exposed Americans from US, move them to Kenya
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"Little red dot" in early Universe is a naked supermassive black hole
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US Space Force confirms SpaceX will build sensor-to-shooter targeting network
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Disclosure Day final trailer features Spielberg himself
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YouTube to begin automatically labeling AI videos
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Smart light company Govee apologizes for “white supremacy” marketing imagery
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Nvidia kills Windows XP-era Control Panel "after 20 years of dedicated service"
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Volvo gets US government approval to bypass Chinese connected-car ban
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US law enforcement warns of "anti-tech extremism" as AI hatred grows
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Is Peter Thiel the target of Pope Leo's Gandalf quote? An investigation.
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Musk says US military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rules
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NASA takes steps toward building Moon Base, including discussing a "perimeter"
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We're starting to see some PC makers respond to Apple's MacBook Neo
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Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package
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Want an oxygen-rich atmosphere? Stuff oxygen’s friends in the mantle.
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FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting AI porn without consent
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3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild
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Windows' classic 3D Space Cadet pinball is getting a physical re-creation
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Review: The Boroughs is a smart, pitch-perfect creature feature
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A global brand but local cars is Audi's future, says CEO
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Analyst on China's spent rocket stages: "Things only continue to get worse"
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Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car
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Driving Porsche's most powerful car—and no, it's not a 911
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Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI
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US's big bet on quantum computing may not be entirely legal
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I spent years forcing myself to finish The Witcher 3—don't repeat my mistake
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Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it
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SpaceX's Starship V3—still a work in progress—mostly successful on first flight
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Two space shuttle-era spacewalkers enter Astronaut Hall of Fame
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China’s shark finning could lead to US seafood sanctions
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Four Russian satellites are now within striking distance of an ICEYE radarsat
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Ebola outbreak now third largest recorded and "spreading rapidly"
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First-generation Chromecast users stressed by devices suddenly failing
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Trump FCC asks public to comment on whether ABC's The View is a news show
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US scrambles to stop Internet users re-creating dead pilots’ voices
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The Boys is dead. Long live Vought Rising.
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Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals "believed themselves to be safe"
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Review: The Mandalorian and Grogu is ... fine
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Texas AG sues Meta over claims that WhatsApp doesn't provide end-to-end encryption
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Before it comes down, what should be saved from the International Space Station?
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Marketer that claimed it could tap devices for ad targeting will pay $880K settlement
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Soaring solar and a surge in hydro push more coal off the US grid
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Trump abruptly cancels EO signing event after top AI firm CEOs declined to go
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PSA: The Steam Controller’s magnetic charger can be a fire hazard
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NASA undertakes major reorganization to reduce bureaucracy and move faster
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AI put "synthetic quotes" in his book. But this author wants to keep using it.
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First vaccines, now mammograms? RFK Jr.’s latest firings have doctors outraged.
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Rocket Report: Starship launch delayed, German launch company may aid Canada
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The $58,000 TV bill: When DirecTV sued O.J. Simpson for piracy
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A hacker group is poisoning open source code at an unprecedented scale
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Ground system issue scrubs first launch of SpaceX's Starship V3 rocket
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IoT gadget maker AcuRite shares reasoning for killing customers’ favorite app
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As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI
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AT&T sues California in attempt to shut off old phone network
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JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away
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Zillow loses thousands of listings in fight over “hidden” homes
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Top Gun turns 40
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Uh-oh, the International Space Station is leaking again
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US government takes $2 billion equity stake in nine quantum computing firms
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Plug-in hybrids get plugged in more than you might think
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These clever active beam headlights are finally coming to America
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Famously secret about its finances, SpaceX opens its books for the first time
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Trump admin didn't want Ebola-exposed Americans, sent them to Berlin, Prague
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world
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Masters of the Universe final trailer brings the '80s nostalgia
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Leaving the V8 in the past: The all-electric Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door
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"Ryzen 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition" may help you avoid paying for a new PC
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Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users
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Trump wants $1B to protect White House ballroom from drones and other threats
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Hulu set to keep existing as standalone streaming service and app (for now)
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Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg.
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Minnesota prohibits prediction markets, promptly gets sued by Trump admin
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Buckle up: Google is set to remake search with agentic AI in 2026
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Man jailed for posting Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement
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Russia's plan to advertise on rockets and spacecraft takes off
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Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial
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China banned RTX 5090D V2 while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was visiting
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The Internet can't stop watching Figure AI's humanoid robots handling packages
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Moose-proof and megacasting: Ars drives the new Volvo EX60
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FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants "data in near real time"
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Spider-Noir final trailer gives us a classic villain
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"I'll buy 10 of those"—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites
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Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription
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Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks
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Google's SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more
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In stunning display of stupid, secret CISA credentials found in public GitHub repo
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RFK Jr. forced to withdraw charter that opened CDC panel to anti-vaccine quacks
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Gemini 3.5 Flash might be fast enough for gen AI to make sense
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The era of 1,000 Hz gaming monitors has arrived, but why?
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EV drivers will pay $130 a year under Congress' 2026 transportation bill
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Civilization VII finally lets you build a civ that stands the test of time
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Electrical utility megamerger is all about the data centers
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In addition to space stations, Vast says it will now build high-power satellites
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Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz
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Ebola outbreak: WHO declares emergency, US restricts travel, American infected
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Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date
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