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The robots we saw at CES 2025: The good, the bad and the completely unhinged
Engadget - 10 Jan 2025 19:45Apple Devices Losing Support in 2025: What You Need to Know
The Mac Observer - 10 Jan 2025 06:04
Apple Devices Losing Support in 2025: What You Need to Know If you rely on an older Apple device, 2025 might be the year to consider an upgrade. Apple routinely phases out software support for older hardware, and in 2025...
The Cosmos is Waiting for us to Explore. But we Should Choose our Path Wisely.
Universe Today - 10 Jan 2025 02:35
If you were Captain of the first USS Enterprise, where would you go!? Humanity is on the cusp of reaching out among the stars, maybe not just yet, nor in our lifetimes but it is just around the corner cosmologically spea...
The Nintendo Switch 2 Rumors and Leaks Won't Change Anything
Wired - 10 Jan 2025 01:59
New information about the handheld seems to spring up every day, but it's unclear when the Switch successor will make its appearance. It also doesn't matter.
X's Grok AI assistant is now a standalone app
Engadget - 10 Jan 2025 00:51Antarctic Ice Core Unlocks 1.2 Million Years of Unbroken Climate History, Setting New Record
Gizmodo - 10 Jan 2025 00:15
The achievement represents the longest continuous record of Earth's climate from an ice core.
Comet that could shine as bright as Venus set to be visible from Earth
New Scientist - 10 Jan 2025 17:56
Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) should be visible from the southern hemisphere, and possibly also the northern hemisphere, over the next few days
NASA Instrument on Firefly's Blue Ghost Lander to Study Lunar Interior
NASA Breaking news - 10 Jan 2025 17:05
LMS instrument aboard the Blue Ghost Lander heading to Mare Crisium in mid-January As part of its Artemis campaign, NASA is developing a series of increasingly complex lunar deliveries and missions to ultimately build a ...
Raspberry Pi 5 gets a superpowered 16GB model for the first time
PC World - 10 Jan 2025 17:01
How much RAM do you need? It's a common question, but one that doesn't always have a straightforward answer. The Raspberry Pi, a cheap all-in-one system-on-a-chip for hobbyists, typically makes do with less RAM than conv...
Federal Agencies Lack Critical Information About Some of Their Riskiest AI Systems
Gizmodo - 10 Jan 2025 16:50
From facial recognition tools to algorithms that identify diseases, agencies reported that they didn't know enough about what they're acquiring from commercial vendors.
Resistance measurement approach successfully observes topological signatures in multiterminal Josephson junctions
Phys.org - 10 Jan 2025 14:30
Multiterminal Josephson junctions, nanoscale devices with unique electronic properties, comprise non-superconducting metallic material coupled to three or more superconducting leads. These devices have proved to be promi...
Google launches a 'neutral' Chromium development fund
The Verge - 10 Jan 2025 00:55
Illustration: The Verge Google is partnering with The Linux Foundation to launch an initiative meant to "fund open development and enhance projects" in the Chromium ecosystem, according to an announcement on Thursday. Th...
Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal
Wired - 10 Jan 2025 00:33
One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.
How Fiber Fuels Anti-Cancer Gene Activity
Neuroscience News - 10 Jan 2025 23:57
Fiber digestion produces short-chain fatty acids like propionate and butyrate, which directly alter gene expression with anti-cancer effects, according to new research. The study found that these fatty acids influence ge...
Ads in popular apps exposed a mountain of your location data to hackers
Android Authority - 10 Jan 2025 23:56
Location data hack highlights just how many apps are involved with efforts to track you.
Study suggests how the brain, with sleep, learns meaningful maps of spaces
MIT - 10 Jan 2025 23:50
Place cells are known to encode individual locations, but research finds stitching together a "cognitive map" of a whole environment requires a broader ensemble of cells, aided by sleep, over several days.
I took a 90-second eye exam at CES 2025, and the results were surprisingly accurate
ZDNet - 10 Jan 2025 23:46
The Eyebot kiosk had long lines every day. After trying it, I understood why.
Amazon has slashed the price of the MacBook Pro M4 by $250
Digital Trends - 10 Jan 2025 23:45
The MacBook Pro M4 is one of the best MacBook deals around and it's currently on sale at Amazon with $250 off. Here's why you'll love it.
Chinese cyber-spies peek over shoulder of officials probing real-estate deals near American military bases
The Register - 10 Jan 2025 23:45
Gee, wonder why Beijing is so keen on the - checks notes - Committee on Foreign Investment in the US Chinese cyber-spies who broke into the US Treasury Department also stole documents from officials investigating real-es...
Donald Trump Bemoans the Injustice of Facing No Consequences
The New Yorker - 10 Jan 2025 23:39
From the daily newsletter: Trump's unconditional discharge. Plus: Elon Musk's terrifying foray into British politics; the war in Ukraine according to Russians; and are Britain's badgers pests or political pawns?
Zuckerberg torches the Biden administration over its heavy-handed tactics during Covid
BGR - 10 Jan 2025 23:39
At one point during the Covid pandemic, someone from the Biden administration privately reached out to Meta with an urgent demand: Users of Meta’s family … The post Zuckerberg torches the Biden administration over it...
The Weirdest Gadgets We Saw at CES 2025
Gizmodo - 10 Jan 2025 23:35
From a cute little robot that blows on your hot drink to a sexy controller dongle, CES 2025 was full of funky gadgets we can't stop thinking about.