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Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden
In a deckbuilding game, you start out with a basic set of cards, then upgrade it...
Delta takes flight: Apple-approved Nintendo emulator is a great iOS option
Enlarge / That is in no way what the Z button looks like or where it...
QDEL, the backlight-less display tech that could replace OLED in premium TVs
What comes after OLED? With OLED-equipped TVs, monitors, and other gadgets slowly becoming more readily available...
Tesla profits drop 55% as Elon Musk dodges cheap car questions
Enlarge / Tesla shares rose by almost 11 percent in premarket trading despite the disastrous financial...
SpaceX has now landed more boosters than most other rockets ever launch
Enlarge / SpaceX landed its 300th booster on Tuesday. SpaceX launches have become extremely routine. On...
US bans TikTok owner ByteDance, will prohibit app in US unless it is sold
The Senate last night approved a bill that orders TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the company...
Nestlé baby foods loaded with unhealthy sugars, but only in poorer countries
Enlarge / Night view of company logos in Nestlé Avanca Dairy Products Plant on January 21,...
Hackers infect users of antivirus service that delivered updates over HTTP
Hackers abused an antivirus service for five years in order to infect end users with malware....
You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10k
Enlarge / The Thermonator robot flamethrower dog. If you've been wondering when you'll be able to...
The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC
Enlarge / I have hundreds of UUIDs and I must scream. The modern "smart" TV asks...
Kremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections
Kremlin-backed actors have stepped up efforts to interfere with the US presidential election by planting disinformation...
Home Assistant has a new foundation and a goal to become a consumer brand
Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. The open smart home platform...
After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip
Enlarge / A cropped portion of a ca. 1980 ad for the Microsoft Z80 SoftCard, which...
First real-life Pixel 9 Pro pictures leak, and it has 16GB of RAM
Enlarge / OnLeak's renders of the Pixel 9 Pro XL, the Pixel 9 Pro, and the...
Dragonfly Mission to Titan
Enlarge / Artist's illustration of Dragonfly soaring over the dunes of Titan. NASA has formally approved...
Explore a digitized collection of doomed Everest climber's letters home
Enlarge / The final letter from George Mallory from Camp I, Mount Everest, to his wife...
Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian backdoor
Kremlin-backed hackers have been exploiting a critical Microsoft vulnerability for four years in attacks that targeted...
NASA may alter Artemis III to have Starship and Orion dock in low-Earth orbit
Enlarge / This image taken by NASA's Orion spacecraft shows its view just before the vehicle...
It's cutting calories–not intermittent fasting–that drops weight
Intermittent fasting, aka time-restricted eating, can help people lose weight—but the reason why may not be...
Microsoft's VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
Enlarge / A sample image from Microsoft for "VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real...
OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships 2022
Enlarge / An AI-generated image from DALL-E 2 created with the prompt "A painting by Grant...
Google merges the Android, Chrome, and hardware divisions
Google is doing a major re-org of Android, Chrome, and the Google hardware division: They're merging!...
Hospital prices for the same emergency care vary up to 16X
Enlarge / Miami Beach, Fire Rescue ambulance at Mt. Sinai Medical Center hospital. ] Since 2021,...
Elon Musk's Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users' jokes
X's chatbot Grok is supposed to be an AI engine crunching the platform's posts to surface...