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An small microbial ecosystem has formed on the International Space Station - 2/03 8:00 pm

The largest study yet of the ISS's microbes hints we???re may be keeping it too clean.





Driving an EV restomod that costs as much as a house???the JIA Chieftain - 2/03 7:00 pm

There are no reused Tesla parts here, but the price tag is prototype-level.





We???ve figured out the basics of a shape-shifting, T-1000-style material - 1/03 8:15 pm

A pack of small robots can do liquid/solid transitions and adopt different shapes.





Half-Life 3 is just the hot exclusive Valve needs to propel SteamOS past .. - 1/03 8:00 pm

Opinion: Just as Half-Life 2 helped launch Steam, a sequel could help establish non-Windows PC gaming.





Federal firings could wreak havoc on Great Lakes fishery - 1/03 7:27 pm

Populations of sea lampreys likely to run amok with US Fish and Wildlife Service cuts.





SpaceX readies a redo of last month???s ill-fated Starship test flight - 1/03 8:53 am

The FAA has cleared SpaceX to launch Starship's eighth test flight as soon as Monday.





Android 0-day sold by Cellebrite exploited to hack Serbian student???s .. - 1/03 7:08 am

Android users who have installed Google's February patch batch should do so ASAP.





Mars??? polar ice cap is slowly pushing its north pole inward - 1/03 5:47 am

That, plus data from the InSight lander, gives us a new view into Mars' interior.





Texas official warns against ???measles parties??? as outbreak keeps .. - 1/03 5:16 am

Twenty people have been hospitalized. Most cases are in children.





Commercials are still too loud, say ???thousands??? of recent FCC .. - 1/03 2:34 am

1,700 complaints about boisterous TV ads hit the FCC in 2024.





Research roundup: 7 cool science stories from February - 1/03 2:17 am

Dancing sea turtles, the discovery of an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, perfectly boiled eg





Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks - 1/03 2:17 am

Google says it has no immediate plans to change work-from-home policies.





Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to .. - 1/03 1:44 am

Mozilla says it deleted promise because "sale of data" is defined broadly.





Salty game dev comments, easier mods are inside Command & Conquer???s .. - 1/03 1:05 am

With the right folks involved, EA can capably preserve and update its classics.





Europol arrests 25 users of online network accused of sharing AI CSAM - 1/03 12:45 am

Europol's hunt targets anyone making or sharing AI sex images depicting minors.





???It???s a lemon??????OpenAI???s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed .. - 1/03 12:35 am

GPT-4.5 offers marginal gains in capability and poor coding performance despite 30x the cost.





Yes, it turns out you can make a Tesla Cybertruck even uglier - 1/03 12:21 am

Mansory, infamous modifier of cars, turns its attention to the Tesla Cybertruck.





Details on AMD???s $549 and $599 Radeon RX 9070 GPUs, which aim at Nvidia .. - 28/02 11:00 pm

New GPUs launch March 6, targeting upper-midrange 1440p and 4K gaming PCs.





AMD???s FSR 4 upscaling is exclusive to 90-series Radeon GPUs, won???t .. - 28/02 11:00 pm

Like Nvidia, AMD is locking some upscaling advancements to its newest GPUs.





US Antarctic Program disrupted by DOGE-induced chaos - 28/02 10:31 pm

Long-term impacts will affect not only research but also geopolitics.





On May 5, Microsoft???s Skype will shut down for good - 28/02 10:00 pm

Skype users will be able to move into Teams with their existing accounts.





Did the snowball Earth give complex life a boost? - 28/02 8:30 pm

Planet-wide glaciers may have filled the oceans with mineral nutrients.





Elon Musk fans truly believe he can make Dogecoin the currency of Earth - 28/02 8:00 pm

Dogecoin Foundation strikes deals to mainstream the popular memecoin.





Rocket Report: Rocket Lab???s news blitz; Starship mishap blamed on .. - 28/02 8:00 pm

One Falcon 9 launched an Intuitive Machines lunar lander, an asteroid prospector, and a NASA science probe.





Astroscale aced the world???s first rendezvous with a piece of space junk - 28/02 9:06 am

This success lays the foundation for future missions to dock with out-of-control satellites.





Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft - 28/02 7:43 am

Repositories, once set to public and later to private, still accessible through Copilot.





Microsoft brings an official Copilot app to macOS for the first time - 28/02 5:24 am

It looks and works just like similar apps from OpenAI and Anthropic.





New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from .. - 28/02 5:14 am

New diffusion models borrow technique from AI image synthesis for 10x speed boost.





Google will finally fix awesome (but broken) song detection feature for .. - 28/02 4:56 am

Google broke the feature last year, and it's taken months of complaints to get this far.





The PlayStation VR2 will get a drastic price cut, but that might not be .. - 28/02 3:10 am

This could revitalize the platform???or demonstrate that things aren't going well.





Doctors report upticks in severe brain dysfunction among kids with flu - 28/02 2:00 am

CDC data is limited but hints it could be one of the more severe seasons.





Portal Randomized feels like playing Portal again for the first time - 28/02 1:34 am

Small gameplay tweaks make for a completely fresh take on old challenges.





Trump should block Biden???s AI ???gift??? to China, Microsoft argues - 28/02 1:16 am

Microsoft: If US cuts off ???friends??? from AI chips, China will win AI race.





Max is pulling CNN and sports from some US subscribers on March 30 - 28/02 12:56 am

People who pay for ad-free Max will still have access to CNN Max and B/R Sports.





What we know about Waymo???s 2025 expansion plans - 28/02 12:18 am

The public has a long way to go before it trusts autonomous vehicles.





Study: Hot Vesuvian ash cloud really did turn a brain to glass - 28/02 12:00 am

Fresh analysis with calorimetry, X-rays, electron microscopy lend support to hotly debated theory.





There???s a battery bigger than in most BEVs inside the Ramcharger hybrid - 27/02 11:43 pm

Why 22 kWh of the Ramcharger's 92 kWh battery is not useable.





The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office - 27/02 10:15 pm

Warehouse-style employee-tracking technology is coming for the office worker.





The Moon???s next robotic visitor is lining up for landing this weekend - 27/02 8:00 pm

The first lunar lander built by Firefly Aerospace is on quite a trip, and has the selfies to prove it.





Kia???s EV strategy: Smaller, cheaper cars like the EV3 hatch and EV4 sedan - 27/02 4:00 pm

Smaller EVs will use 400 V powertrains to save money.




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