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Enlarge / You can have confirmation of one of our upcoming four phones, but you have to hear us talk about AI again. Deal? (credit: Google) After every one of its house-brand phones, and even its new wall charger, have…
Enlarge / NASA completed assembling the VIPER rover last month at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. (credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas) NASA has spent $450 million designing and building a first-of-its-kind robot to drive into eternally dark craters at the…
Enlarge / Apple seeks to continue to augment its library of original films like Argylle with films from other studios. Apple TV+ has carved a niche for itself with strong original programming, and while it’s still far behind the likes…
Enlarge / A telephone in a prison. (credit: Getty Images | Image Source) The Federal Communications Commission today voted to lower price caps on prison phone calls and closed a loophole that allowed prison telecoms to charge high rates for…
The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft is back to routine operations studying the Milky Way after a meteor strike punctured its protective shield, allowing charged solar particles to stream through.
Enlarge / Can the big Mazda CX-90 make up for how disappointed we were with the last electrified Mazda we drove? (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Fairly or not, the Mazda CX-90 PHEV had a lot to make up for. The last…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) You have to read the headline on Nvidia’s latest GPU announcement slowly, parsing each clause as it arrives. “Nvidia transitions fully” sounds like real commitment, a burn-the-boats call. “Towards open-source GPU,” yes, evoking the company’s “first…
Recent studies suggest PFAS can pass through human skin and through the placenta. What does that mean for our health?
A recent study published in the journal Genetics in Medicine Open has identified a potential new syndrome in babies born to mothers who used fentanyl during pregnancy. The research, conducted by a team of genetic counselors and physicians at Nemours…
Nintendo’s Joy-Con Charging Stand (Two-Way) seems useful, but it’s coming out at a strange time in the console’s lifecycle. [credit: Nintendo ] Nintendo’s Switch launched in March 2017, and all available information indicates that the company is on track to…
