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After the Concorde, a long road back to supersonic air travel
Supersonic flight without loud booms? NASA is working on that.
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Rocket Report: Will Northrops rocket be reusable? Fourth Starship gets fired twice
"So don’t have that expectation, please. It’s not going to be perfect."
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Apple’s first new 3D Vision Pro video since launch is only a few minutes long
Major League Soccer highlight reel is the first Immersive Video since launch.
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Getting a charge: An exercise bike that turns your pedaling into power
LifeSpan's Ampera offers a solid workout, but it has a lot of quirks.
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Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit
Facebook Watch, Netflix were allegedly bigger competitors than they let on.
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Astronomers have solved the mystery of why this black hole has the hiccups
Blame it on a smaller orbiting black hole repeatedly punching through the accretion disk.
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PyPI halted new users and projects while it fended off supply-chain attack
Automation is making attacks on open source code repositories harder to fight.
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Ubuntu will manually review Snap Store after crypto wallet scams
Former Canonical employee calls out the "Safe" label applied to Snap apps.
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China has a big problem with super gonorrhea, study finds
Drug-resistant gonorrhea is a growing problem—one that doesn't heed borders.
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Biden orders every US agency to appoint a chief AI officer
Federal agencies rush to appoint chief AI officers with “significant expertise.”
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Proxmox gives VMware ESXi users a place to go after Broadcom kills free version
Proxmox is a Linux-based hypervisor that could replace ESXi for some users.
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How Apple plans to update new iPhones without opening them
Apple wants to rid the iPhone-buying process of the post-unboxing update.
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FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
SBF had asked for sentence of just 5 or 6 years. Prosecutors sought 40 to 50.
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Yamaha and Lola pair up to enter Formula E next season
Lola has Yamaha as a technical partner and Formula E veterans in key roles.
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Embracer Group lets go of Borderlands maker for $460M after three years
Swedish giant releases the largest piece of its Katamari-like studio roll-up.
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Daily Telescope: Peering into the remnants of an 800-year-old supernova
Incomplete explosions can leave a kind of "zombie" star.
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The Delta IV Heavy, a rocket whose time has come and gone, will fly once more
The final Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch Thursday, weather permitting.
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Thousands of servers hacked in ongoing attack targeting Ray AI framework
Researchers say it's the first known in-the-wild attack targeting AI workloads.
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Quantum computing progress: Higher temps, better error correction
Amazon, IBM, and traditional silicon makers are all working toward error correction.
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Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing
Starting in 2025, devices can't block repair parts with software-pairing checks.
Paul Sutter walks us through the future of climate change—and things aren’t great
This episode of Edge of Knowledge focuses on our rapidly transforming world.
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Puerto Rico declares public health emergency as dengue cases rise
Cases so far are up 140 percent compared to this point last year.
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Starlink mobile plans hit snag as FCC dismisses SpaceX spectrum application
SpaceX application tossed but firm will get another shot in spectrum rulemaking.
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Event Horizon Telescope captures stunning new image of Milky Way’s black hole
There are also hints of an elusive high-energy jet, similar to larger M87* black hole.
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Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say
Zuckerberg told execs to “figure out” how to spy on encrypted Snapchat traffic.
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Canva’s Affinity acquisition is a non-subscription-based weapon against Adobe
But what will result from the companies' opposing views on generative AI?
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Intel, Microsoft discuss plans to run Copilot locally on PCs instead of in the cloud
Companies are trying to make the "AI PC" happen with new silicon and software.
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Google’s Pixel 9 might have three models, adding a small “Pro” phone
A 6.8-inch "Pixel 9 Pro XL," 6.1-inch "Pixel 9 Pro," and a "Pixel 9" at 6.0 inches.
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The company building a rotating detonation engine is pushing the tech forward
"I'm convinced that this is going to be the engine that unlocks the hypersonic economy."
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“MFA Fatigue” attack targets iPhone owners with endless password reset prompts
Rapid-fire prompts sometimes followed with spoofed calls from "Apple support."
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Why the Baltimore bridge collapsed so quickly
The immense power of a container ship shouldn’t be underestimated.
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US pricing announced for the Polestar 4 EV; starts at $54,900
The midsize SUV will have up to 300 miles of range—but no rear windshield.
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“The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time
Anthropic's Claude 3 is first to unseat GPT-4 for #1 since launch of Chatbot Arena in May '23.
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Microsoft opens a crack in console gaming’s decades-old walled garden
Competing marketplaces like the Epic Games Store could show up on Xbox in the future.
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Pornhub could block Florida if child safety law takes effect
Florida plans to start requiring ID for porn January 1.
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Explaining why your keyboard feels so darn good—or way too mushy
Ars Technica's guide to keyboards: Mechanical, membrane, and buckling springs.
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Cows in Texas and Kansas test positive for highly pathogenic bird flu
The risk to the public is low, and the milk supply is safe.