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Outrageously priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care

Prices would need to be dramatically slashed to avoid increasing the national deficit.

18 May 2024 3:38 am
The Apple TV is coming for the Raspberry Pis retro emulation box crown

Apples restrictions will still hold it back, but theres a lot of possibility.

18 May 2024 3:13 am
OpenAI will use Reddit posts to train ChatGPT under new deal

Reddit has been eager to sell data from user posts.

18 May 2024 2:48 am
Cats playing with robots proves a winning combo in novel art installation

Cat Royale project explores what it takes to trust a robot to look after beloved pets.

18 May 2024 2:29 am
Leaks from Valves Deadlock look like a pressed sandwich of every game around

Is there something new underneath a whole bunch of familiar game elements?

18 May 2024 2:06 am
Financial institutions have 30 days to disclose breaches under new rules

Amendments contain loopholes that may blunt their effectiveness.

18 May 2024 12:57 am
Using vague language about scientific facts misleads readers

Using subjective phrasing like scientists believe makes facts seem like opinions.

18 May 2024 12:30 am
Twitter URLs redirect to x.com as Musk gets closer to killing the Twitter name

X.com stops redirecting to Twitter.com over a year after company name change.

17 May 2024 9:13 pm
Sony Music opts out of AI training for its entire catalog

Music group contacts more than 700 companies to prohibit use of content

17 May 2024 6:46 pm
How I upgraded my water heater and discovered how bad smart home security can be

Could you really control someone's hot water with just an email address?

17 May 2024 4:30 pm
Rocket Report: Starship stacked; Georgia shuts the door on Spaceport Camden

United Launch Alliance is under pressure ramp up the flight rate for the new Vulcan rocket.

17 May 2024 4:30 pm
Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies

Alleged $6.8M conspiracy involved laptop farm, identity theft, and rsum coaching.

17 May 2024 4:19 am
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues Meta, citing chatbots reply as evidence of shadowban

Presidential candidate believes Metas chatbot can reliably reveal shadowbans.

17 May 2024 3:13 am
It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in NC

Senators skeptical of legal trouble for harmless masking after moving to make it illegal.

17 May 2024 12:55 am
Google Search adds a web filter, because it is no longer focused on web results

Google Search now has an option to search the web, which is not the default anymore.

17 May 2024 12:48 am
Pedego Moto review: Fast and furious fun for $4,000

Pedego's newest e-bike is quality even if a little bit impractical.

17 May 2024 12:09 am
Archie, the Internets first search engine, is rescued and running

A journey through busted tapes, the Internet Old Farts Club, and SPARCstations.

16 May 2024 11:14 pm
Bumble apologizes for ads shaming women into sex

Bumble admits mistake after critics explained why celibacy is a valid choice.

16 May 2024 10:42 pm
Thunderbolt Share simplifies dual-PC workloadsbut requires new hardware

App comes out in June, but you'll need a PC or dock licensed to use it.

16 May 2024 10:09 pm
Mixup of drinking and irrigation water sparks dangerous outbreak in children

Of 13 children sickened, 7 hospitalized and 2 had life-threatening complications.

16 May 2024 7:16 pm
Concerns over addicted kids spur probe into Meta and its use of dark patterns

EU is concerned Meta isn't doing enough to protect children using its apps.

16 May 2024 6:55 pm
Daily Telescope: I spy, with my little eye, the ISS

What is black and white and constantly in flight?

16 May 2024 5:30 pm
MIT students stole $25M in seconds by exploiting ETH blockchain bug, DOJ says

Brothers charged in novel crypto scheme potentially face decades in prison.

16 May 2024 1:51 am
2023 temperatures were warmest weve seen for at least 2,000 years

Northern Hemisphere temperatures well beyond natural variability seen in tree rings.

15 May 2024 1:47 am
Boeing is troubleshooting a small helium leak on the Starliner spacecraft

The first launch of astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner capsule is now set for May 21.

15 May 2024 1:17 am
AI in Gmail will sift through emails, provide search summaries, send emails

Gmail will soon be able to summarize recent emails from a contact.

14 May 2024 11:14 pm
ChatGPT-4o allows real-time audio-video conversations with an emotional AI chatbot

GPT-4o demo shows new AI model singing a bedtime story, detecting user's facial expressions.

13 May 2024 11:28 pm
Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams

Unbundling Teams from Office has apparently failed to impress EU regulators.

13 May 2024 7:33 pm
NOAA says extreme Solar storm will persist through the weekend

So far disruptions from the geomagnetic storm appear to be manageable.

11 May 2024 7:14 pm
How the Moon got a makeover

The Moon's former surface sank to the depths, until volcanism brought it back.

11 May 2024 3:30 pm
Exploration-focused training lets robotics AI immediately handle new tasks

Maximum Diffusion Reinforcement Learning focuses training on end states, not process.

10 May 2024 11:52 pm
OpenAI revs up plans for web search, but denies report of an imminent launch

The search.chatgpt.com URL is being set up, and Google employees are being poached.

10 May 2024 11:27 pm
Google patches its fifth zero-day vulnerability of the year in Chrome

Exploit code for critical use-after-free bug is circulating in the wild.

10 May 2024 10:32 pm
Apple apologizes for ad that crushes the sum total of human artistic endeavor

An ad that isnt about generative AI but somehow manages to be about AI anyway.

10 May 2024 9:01 pm
Phantom braking lands troubled EV-maker Fisker in feds crosshairs

This makes four open federal safety investigations for the Fisker Ocean.

10 May 2024 7:48 pm
The wasps that tamed viruses

Some insects have transformed wild viruses into tiny biological weapons.

10 May 2024 7:22 pm
Analyst on Starlinks rapid rise: Nothing short of mind-blowing

Starlink's estimated free cash flow this year is about $600 million.

10 May 2024 7:15 pm
The 2024 Moto G Stylus is a $400 mid-ranger with vegan leather

The phone ships May 30, but Motorola's weak update plan might give you pause.

9 May 2024 11:48 pm
Apples plastic-free packaging means pack-in logo stickers are going away

Pack-in Apple stickers go back at least as far as 1977s Apple II.

9 May 2024 11:40 pm
40 years later, Kontrabant 2 for ZX Spectrum is rebroadcast on FM in Slovenia

Celebrating radio waves, magnetic tape heads, and smuggled 8-bit computers.

9 May 2024 1:43 am
M4 iPad Pro CPU cores and RAM amount are tied to storage capacity

Apple has tied RAM to storage capacity in iPads, but it's a first for the CPU.

8 May 2024 11:02 pm
New iPad Pros are the thinnest Apple device ever, feature dual-OLED screens

They also contain what Apple calls the fastest consumer AI computer you can buy.

7 May 2024 7:55 pm
Apples first 13-inch iPad Air debuts at $799 next week

There's also a new 11-inch M2 iPad Air.

7 May 2024 7:51 pm
Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game

New method could help high-score chasers trying to avoid game-ending crashes.

7 May 2024 3:46 am
Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices

Scales, trackers, and other fitness devices that don't get updated will stop syncing

7 May 2024 1:31 am
SpaceX got the fanfare, but Boeings first crew flight is still historic

Ars spoke with the three Americans alive who have test-flown a new spacecraft in orbit.

7 May 2024 1:02 am
Tesla announces fourth round of layoffs in four weeks

The latest cuts affect engineers, HR, and service advisers.

6 May 2024 11:37 pm