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Google’s Nest Hub is the best bedside smart display—and sleep tracking helps
Adding sleep tracking bolsters its bedside utility, but the feature could use more depth.
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The Windows 11 insider build is surprisingly unpolished and unfinished
Windows 11 looks to be a decent upgrade, but not one to lose sleep over missing.
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The weekend’s best tech deals: Nintendo Switch Lite, MacBook Air, and more
Dealmaster also has deals on Dell monitors, good board games, and portable SSDs.
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When science breaks bad: A rogues’ gallery of history’s worst scientists
A new book catalogs some of the greatest ethical lapses done in the name of science.
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Quest for “green” cement draws big name investors to $300B industry
Startups and venture capitalists are joining concrete makers against a hard problem.
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Feds indict “The Bull” for allegedly selling insider stock info on the dark web
Data allegedly sold individually or through weekly or monthly subscriptions.
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Cheat-maker brags of computer-vision auto-aim that works on “any game”
Capture cards, input hardware, and machine learning get around system-level lockdowns.
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Rupert Murdoch’s answer to Google News is dead after only 18 months
The shuttered news aggregator offered stories mainly from right-leaning sources.
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NYC ePrix: It’s time for Formula E’s annual visit to America
We check in with one of our favorite series ahead of this weekend's races.
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The FBI’s honeypot Pixel 4a gets detailed in new report
FBI honeypot phones are now public—and showing up on the secondary market.
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How to watch Branson’s flight, which Jeff Bezos is still hopping mad about
"New Shepard was designed to fly above the Kármán line."
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World record for most expensive video game auction is now $870,000
Leapfrogs past April 2021's previous world-record auction for boxed SMB1 by 24 percent.
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With little remaining of Champlain Towers, how will we find answers?
Researchers discuss the methods NIST can use to find the cause of a tragedy.
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Biden urges FCC to undo Pai’s legacy—but it can’t until he picks a third Democrat
Biden wants FCC to lower prices and protect consumers, but he must break 2-2 deadlock.
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Amid criticism, FDA narrows use of $56K Alzheimer’s drug, calls for probe [Updated]
FDA now says drug should only go to those with mild disease—the only patients tested.
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“Bad mergers” and noncompete clauses targeted in Biden executive order
Sweeping order tries to counter rising corporate consolidation.
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Rocket Report: SLS not available for science, OneWeb reaches milestone
"There is great concern about this engine development."
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Black Widow review: Johansson’s sendoff is MCU’s best standalone film yet
Florence Pugh's scene-stealing turn caps a tremendous MCU mix of action, acting.
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Morgan Stanley discloses data breach that resulted from Accellion FTA hacks
Financial services firm says data was stolen by exploiting flaws discovered in December.
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All fans banned from Tokyo Olympics as COVID cases rise, delta spreads
The prime minister also asked bars and restaurants not to serve alcohol.
Unsolved Mysteries: Quantum Leap’s Don Bellisario on the fate of Sam Beckett
The man who came up with Sam, Al, and Ziggy dishes on the show—and what happened next.
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It’s a mad, mad multiverse as Marvel drops first trailer for What If…?
"Every universe is different. Each one unique."
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GOP’s Big Tech plan ignores consumers, targets “censorship” of Republicans instead
Republican antitrust plan is all about supposed bias, never mentions competition.
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New fabric passively cools whatever it’s covering—including you
Structured fabric reflects most light, still radiates in the IR.
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What fractals, Fibonacci, and the golden ratio have to do with cauliflower
Self-selected mutations during domestication drastically changed shape over time
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New Google Pay debit card lets you actually spend the money people send you
A virtual debit card lets you skip transferring money to a bank account.
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Google “bought off Samsung” to limit app store competition, 36 states allege
"Google has taken steps to close the ecosystem from competition."
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Four new electric platforms, five gigafactories: Stellantis’ EV plan
The world's fourth-largest OEM just laid out its electrification strategy.
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Reconstructing Roman industrial engineering
How a special design increased the efficiency of an ancient watermill.
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mRNA vaccine technology moves to flu: Moderna says trial has begun
Moderna aims for one seasonal shot for flu, COVID-19, respiratory viruses RSV and HMPV.
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OnePlus admits to throttling 300 popular apps with recent update
Chrome performance tanks 85-75 percent in some tests.
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Microsoft’s emergency patch fails to fix critical “PrintNightmare” vulnerability
Game-over code-execution attacks are still possible even after fix is installed.
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Pacific Northwest heatwave “virtually impossible” without climate change
Rapid analysis shows it would be hard to do this in a cooler world.
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Netflix gives us our first look at Zack Snyder’s heist film Army of Thieves
It's a prequel to Snyder's Army of the Dead, so yes, there will also be zombies.
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Trump sues Twitter and Facebook for banning him, claims “trillions” in damages
Trump's "free speech" case is likely doomed by First Amendment and Section 230.
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Dozens of Chinese phone games now require facial scans to play at night
After a 2018 test, "Midnight Patrol" system officially rolls out to 60 Tencent games.
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The Chime banking app has been closing accounts, not returning money
Chime isn't actually a bank—it's a "neobank" with less federal regulation.
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Why the password isn’t dead quite yet
Everyone hates the old ways of authentication. But change comes with its own drawbacks.

