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Enlarge / Recycling is sorted at the Sims Municipal Recycling Facility in New York City in 2015.Spencer Platt/Getty Images To...

Walter Zerla via Getty Images Say you are a maker of computer graphics cards, under pressure from investors questioning your...

Enlarge / If this road is your only route to the outside world, it might not matter that your house...

Enlarge / Just because you're still alive in a retro-futuristic-post-apocalyptic Commonwealth doesn't mean you're necessarily witty.Bethesda / ProfMajowski Modders can...

Enlarge / Sony's PlayStation 5.Sony UK regulators reviewing Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard reversed their stance on a key...

Enlarge / Event display of a W-boson candidate decaying into a muon and a muon neutrino inside the ATLAS experiment....

Arm What's in store for the future of Arm? The company's owner, Softbank, has been in financial trouble lately, and...

Enlarge / Singer-songwriter Joseph Foreman, better known as "Afroman," clowns around poolside at an Orange County hotel. Seven Ohio cops...

Enlarge / United has chosen its hometown of Chicago for the country's first commercial eVTOL route.Archer Aviation In 2025, United...

Enlarge / United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket, without its payload, rolls to the launch pad for tests on March 9,...

Enlarge / Sometimes, building better Wordles means building the same Wordles...Aurich Lawson | Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO—When The New York...

Enlarge / Frostpunk, an alternate history survival city building simulation game.GOG.com Several staff members are big fans of the GOG...

Enlarge / TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Zi Chew testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. For nearly five...

Getty Images | MirageC Proposals to pay for broadband networks by imposing new fees on Big Tech companies "are built...

Enlarge / Artist's depiction of the interstellar comet 'Oumuamua, as it warmed up in its approach to the Sun and...

Enlarge / Smartphone repairs could be required for up to five years, while other products, like washing machines, may require...

The Leia (or ZTE) 3D tablet. ZTE The press release is full of these cornball pop-out 3D images—which I love—but...

Enlarge / Time for an upgrade—new Framework Laptop 13 motherboards can be purchased new or installed into the Framework Laptop...

Enlarge / The surface of a semiconductor wafer in the cleanroom at the Tower Semiconductor Ltd. plant in Migdal HaEmek,...

Enlarge / Terran 1 lights up the night sky in Florida on Wednesday evening. Relativity Space The shiny white Terran...

Enlarge / An Orbi 750 series router.Netgear If you rely on Netgear’s Orbi mesh wireless system to connect to the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExZtISgOxEQA promotional video from Valve detailing the approach to map reworks in Counter-Strike 2. Valve Software has announced a sequel...

Our brains are filled with lots of specialized structures that do things like process visual information, handle memories, or interpret...

Enlarge / An Adobe Firefly AI image generator example.Adobe On Tuesday, Adobe unveiled Firefly, its new AI image synthesis generator....

Enlarge / Portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820Beethoven-Haus Bonn Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the greatest composers...

Enlarge / When is a Dodge not a Dodge? When it's also an Alfa Romeo, in this case. Jonathan Gitlin...

Enlarge / Ever want to be a superhero? We'll show you how.Shaun Hutchinson | Aurich Lawson | Stable Diffusion By...

Artist's conception of EA taking aim at the digital storefronts hosting three legacy Battlefield games.Electronic Arts If you want to...

Enlarge / Security guards stand in front of the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in the city of Wuhan, in...

Newegg has a quick and dirty way to pick a new NAS device and the drives that'll go in it....

Nikon Amazon has plans to lay off at least 27,000 workers this year, including 9,000 that were announced in an...

Getty Images | picture alliance Google defended its use of "history-off chats" for many internal communications, denying the US government's...

Enlarge / The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 makes its wheels-up debut run at the Dodge Last Call Powered by...

Getty Images | Thomas Trutschel In the days after Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, the social media...

Acer's ebii, an out-of-left-field attempt at an e-bike from a company best known for affordable PCs. Acer The ebii has...

Enlarge / The director of Germany's National Reference Centre for Invasive Fungal Infections holds a petri dish containing the yeast...

Today, the Internet Archive (IA) defended its practice of digitizing books and lending those e-books for free to users of...

If you've been eyeing some specific Apple devices but either missed your chance to snag record-low prices during the holidays,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8XAFFPhz8QCheckers Marshall’s award-winning dance depicted electrons moving around in crystalline materials that have a variety of applications. University of Oregon...

Enlarge / The IPCC chair and secretary preside over a marathon final approval session.IPCC/Antoine Tardy The reports produced by the...

Enlarge / A Starlink mission launches on a Falcon 9 rocket Friday from Vandenberg Space Force Base.SpaceX Is it possible...

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images “Women, life, freedom” became the protest chant of a revolution still raging in Iran months...

Generation over generation, catch after catch, fishing changes fish evolution. This phenomenon, called fisheries-induced evolution, is well documented, though it...

Would you believe that Google's mass firings from January are still going on? Google's reported mishandling of its biggest round...

Enlarge / Bent nails scattered around early Roman imperial burial site suggest an attempt to keep the deceased from rising.Sagalassos...

Microsoft appears to be testing a built-in cryptocurrency wallet for Edge, according to screenshots pulled from a beta build of...

Enlarge / An artist’s impression of a deep borehole for nuclear waste disposal by Sandia National Laboratories in 2012. Red...

YouTube TV is jumping up in price again. The cable TV replacement service launched in 2017 for $35, but it...

FT montage/Getty Images/Bloomberg From a secretive “war room” at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters last month, Elon Musk’s trusted lieutenants pored...

Enlarge / PLATO IV Terminal, ca. 1972-74.University of Illinois Archives Bright graphics, a touchscreen, a speech synthesizer, messaging apps, games,...

Enlarge / A perspective view across Maat Mons on Venus, based on Magellan radar data.NASA/JPL Venus is almost the same...

reader comments 16 with Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELtzcpb_j38A fun Valve video...

Enlarge / Micrograph of Clostridium botulinum Health officials in Europe are warning of an outbreak of botulism linked to botched...

The success of ChatGPT and its competitors is based on what's termed emergent behaviors. These systems, called large language models...

Enlarge / Samsung's Galaxy S23 ad, showing the moon photography mode. If you take a photo of the moon on...

Enlarge / Several of Belkin's Wemo smart home accessories support the Thread networking protocol, but the company is holding off...

Enlarge / "Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of Baidu," chief...

With the advent of genomic studies, it's become ever more clear that humanity's genetic history is one of churn. Populations...

Getty Images Rubrik, the Silicon Valley data security company, said that it experienced a network intrusion made possible by a...

A Dallas County Sheriff's Department deputy, Francisco Castillo, was briefly suspended after livestreaming a traffic stop, allegedly just to gain...

Getty Images | SOPA Images The Federal Communications Commission should be investigated for letting employees own stock in Comcast, Charter,...

Enlarge / The MNT Pocket Reform and its programmable RGB keyboard should begin shipping to backers later this year.MNT Research...

Enlarge / Hug it out, boys. As every Roman historian and Shakespeare fan knows, a soothsayer once told Caesar to...

Enlarge / The EPA headquarters in Washington, DC. On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it had started the...

Enlarge / Is it natural, or is it us? (It's us.)Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images It starts as a reasonable question: If...

Google Don't get too distracted by today's big "AI for Google Workspace" announcement, because this is also the day for...

Enlarge / This is a prototype of the new Kia EV9 electric SUV, which goes on sale in the latter...

Enlarge / Artist's conception of Microsoft marching on regulators with fresh evidence of its cross-platform intentions for Call of Duty.Activision...

Enlarge / Customizing a Mesh for Teams avatar. Like many people on real-life video calls, the avatars only feature business...

Ars Technica On Tuesday, OpenAI announced GPT-4, a large multimodal model that can accept text and image inputs while returning...

Don Farrall/Getty Images In February, attackers from the Russia-based BlackCat ransomware group hit a physician practice in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania,...

Enlarge / Nearly 30 years later, a room full of dismembered bodies looks a lot more vivid. We'll have to...

Enlarge / The Tesla Model Y earned a good rating in IIHS' rear seat protection crash test.IIHS Only four of...

Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Electric vehicle-specific navigation is coming to Waze. The map app is rolling out new...

Enlarge / Logitech really wants you to know that its Brio 500 webcam works with Meet, Teams, Zoom, and Chromebooks....

Ars Technica Things are moving at lighting speed in AI Land. On Friday, a software developer named Georgi Gerganov created...

Getty Images Widely regarded as one of the Internet’s top threats, the Emotet botnet has returned after a months-long hiatus—and...

Enlarge / Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo speaks at a press conference in Rockledge, Florida, on August 3, 2022. At...

Before it was updated last month, Discord’s privacy policy specifically promised to alert users “in advance” if the company ever...

After losing a similar battle in Australia, Meta continues to resist efforts by a growing number of countries to require...

Enlarge / This wheel should not be loose or wobbly.Jonathan Gitlin Nissan is recalling some of its newest Ariya electric...

Enlarge / The view is pretty great...HBO New episodes of The Last of Us are premiering on HBO every Sunday...

Enlarge / Even hermit crabs have individual patterns of behavior — personalities, if you like. When scientists ignore the effects...

Superhumans don't exist in the real world, but someday you might see super robots. Obviously, robots can be made that...

Enlarge / Orbiting space station from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Off-Earth will amaze you: On nearly every page, it will...

Piecing together why so many people are willing to share misinformation online is a major focus among behavioral scientists. It's...

Getty Images Threat actors connected to the North Korean government have been targeting security researchers in a hacking campaign that...

A YouTuber, Marshall Daniels—who has posted far-right-leaning videos under the name “Young Pharaoh” since 2015—tried to argue that YouTube violated...

The vibrating water surface of Doublet Pool in Yellowstone National Park. Credit: Jamie Farrell/University of Utah The vibrating water surface...

Enlarge / RIP Google Stadia. Aurich Lawson / Getty Images Google kills product View more stories Poor Google Stadia; the...

Enlarge / Signage outside Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, California, US, on Thursday, March 9, 2023. SVB Financial...

Enlarge / Ford has gone for a high-tech interior for the next Mustang, and AM radio did not make the...

Enlarge / Employees work on an assembly line in the mobile phone plant of Rising Stars Mobile India Pvt., a...

Enlarge / Cross-platform voice chat has arrived on the PlayStation 5.Samuel Axon This week, Sony rolled out Discord voice chat...

Enlarge / Guns on display during a buyback event in the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles on March 4. Los...

Ergonofis If you bought a standing desk, chances are you’re interested in the health benefits of, well, not sitting all...

Enlarge / The Apple Music Classical logo and app icon.Apple Apple is launching a version of Apple Music specifically for...

Enlarge / Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized science with the publication of De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium in 1543.Sophia Rare Books Polish astronomer...

Microsoft Microsoft's Bing has never been in any danger of overtaking Google as the Internet's most popular search engine. But...

Enlarge / Lithium ore sits waiting for processing. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has some car troubles. One of President...