Twitter board in a bind as Elon Musk makes his move
Billionaire’s bid has exposed the social media company’s checkered performance.
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NASA is supporting some seriously risky missions to the Moon—it’s about time
"The entrepreneurial ecosystem is one of the core strengths of the United States."
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Paradox gives its official blessing to Vampire: The Masquerade fangames
Fangame developers can even profit, as long as Paradox gets its 33 percent cut.
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CDC raises alarm of mysterious hepatitis cases in kids; 2 states report cases
An adenovirus is still the leading suspect, but experts are keeping an open mind.
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Rocket Report: Falcon 9 says Aloha to Hawaii, Blue Origin to abandon ship?
"New Glenn’s first stage will come home to the Jacklyn after every flight."
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Combo COVID booster is the way to go this fall, Moderna data suggests
A bivalent vaccine produced stronger, broader protection, early data suggests.
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ISPs can’t find any judges who will block California net neutrality law
No judges on 29-seat appeals court even asked for a vote on industry petition.
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Critical bug could have let hackers commandeer millions of Android devices
Flaw could be exploited with malicious audio file.
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End of the road: Apple is killing macOS Server, the place where Mac OS X began
Apple says that Server's most popular features have been integrated into macOS.
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Highway warnings about traffic deaths may increase crashes, study finds
Texas crash data suggests the signs are counterproductive.
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RIP CNN+, March 2022-April 2022
New execs confirm they never wanted $5.99/mo streaming-only fork to launch.
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Google Play makes bizarre decision to ban call-recording apps
Google abandoned plans for a call-recording API in 2020, now it bans workarounds?
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Judge in Musk trial will tell jury that “Funding secured” tweets were false
Gag order denied, but judge ruled that Musk's taking-Tesla-private claim was false.
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Best Buy will pick up your unwanted tech, appliances, and money
New recycling program does the heavy lifting for you.
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EU to unveil landmark law to force Big Tech to police illegal content
Dark patterns, as well as targeting users based on religion or gender will be banned.
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Elon Musk still wants Twitter—and he now has $46.5 billion in financing
Musk will foot $21 billion of the price tag himself.
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Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across the web
Websites could face mandatory anti-piracy technology upgrades every three years.
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Stone Age people may have gathered at night to watch animated “fireside art”
VR simulations showed firelight would make images on engraved stones move and flicker.
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CDC decides to appeal to restore travel mask mandate; DOJ files notice [Updated]
It's a fraught decision at a time when the pandemic's outlook is murky.
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Biden to use infrastructure money to keep nuclear plants open
Up to $6 billion total, with plants already scheduled to shut down the top priority.
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Forget passenger cars, here’s where hydrogen make sense in transport
Hydrogen is attractive to trucking and ports, but only if it's clean.
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We don’t know who made the giant stone jars found in northern India
Local oral history suggests the jars are probably massive, ancient burial urns.
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Musk tells judge that gag order would “trample” on his First Amendment rights
Musk says he shouldn't be silenced before trial over taking-Tesla-private tweets.
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Major cryptography blunder in Java enables “psychic paper” forgeries
A failure to sanity check signatures for division-by-zero flaws makes forgeries easy.
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This 40-second solar eclipse seen from the surface of Mars is sublime
“I knew it was going to be good, but I didn’t expect it to be this amazing."
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Report: HP is working on a 17-inch foldable PC
HP would be the third PC maker to announce a bendable-screen OLED laptop.
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Quest 2 reveal flurry: Ghostbusters VR, Boneworks sequel, Cities VR, more
Plus, great news about a much-requested Resident Evil 4 VR mode, now live on Quest 2.
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Google Pixel Watch leak shows off round, all-glass design
Years of rumors might finally come true next month.
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Today’s best deals: Roomba robot vacuums, Apple iPads, and more
Dealmaster also has 4K TVs, Ryzen CPUs, and a bunch of video games.
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Netflix stock plummets 37% as CEO says company plans ad-supported tier
Reed Hastings: Ads are "working for Hulu," and Netflix will adopt a similar model.
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Meet the micronova: Astronomers discovered new type of stellar explosion
They're like novas, just smaller in scale and more localized on a white dwarf's surface.
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Paul Sutter explores the origins of life, and DNA versus RNA
This month's "Edge of Knowledge" peers back in time to the beginnings of life on Earth.
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Garmin’s new Vívosmart 5 meets stiff competition with an empty bag of tricks
The new basic fitness tracker hasn't progressed much, while Fitbits have.
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BMW’s 2023 7 Series will come with battery-electric or V8 power
A theater screen and recliner transform the backseat experience.
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Not quite Le Mans: 24-hour race won by molecule that traveled 1 micron
A gold-plated racetrack and fuel from a scanning tunneling microscope.
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Lithium costs a lot of money—so why aren’t we recycling lithium batteries?
The nascent recycling industry needs to economically deconstruct lots of formats.
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