Why N95 masks are still hard to get, even though production is up

Both supply and demand are up—but they aren't lining up in the right places. | Continue reading


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Humanitarian airship seeks world’s most powerful hydrogen fuel cell

LTA Research and Exploration is Sergey Brin's airship company. | Continue reading


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Biden administration puts a price on carbon

The results of his first environment executive orders are coming in. | Continue reading


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Gab, the far-right website, has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked

GabLeaks includes 70,000 messages in more than 19,000 chats by over 15,000 users. | Continue reading


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“We knew T-Mobile couldn’t be trusted,” union says after 5k job cuts

T-Mobile claimed Sprint merger would create thousands of jobs "from day one." | Continue reading


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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is delayed for years. What went wrong?

The big delay can be traced to a decision Jeff Bezos made years ago. | Continue reading


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Verizon tells users to disable 5G to preserve battery, then deletes tweet

Verizon's now-deleted tweet said using 4G only will conserve battery life. | Continue reading


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As important as the Beetle? Two days with Volkswagen’s electric ID.4

It's a competent but not flashy crossover with a real-world range of 250 miles. | Continue reading


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Pure nonsense: Debunking the latest attack on renewable energy

What a terrible anti-renewable-power video reveals about the US energy market. | Continue reading


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Moment when triumph turned to torment for SpaceX

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Moment when triumph turned to torment for SpaceX

Flight Three of the Falcon 1 rocket could make or break the company. | Continue reading


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UK Supreme Court says Uber drivers are not independent contractors

Uber's "gig economy" business model is under attack around the world. | Continue reading


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The stunning Black mythos of Drexciya and its Afrofuturist ’90s techno

The history of an experimental music-and-mythos project with Black Diaspora at its core. | Continue reading


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All the little things that add up to make iPadOS productivity a pain

Apple did a good job with the big stuff, but myriad little things undermine that. | Continue reading


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Atlantic currents seem to have started fading last century

Another predicted impact of climate change may be here. | Continue reading


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Clubhouse’s security and privacy lag behind its explosive growth

The platform has promised to do better after a string of incidents. | Continue reading


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As important as the Beetle? Two days with Volkswagen’s electric ID.4

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Code-execution flaw in VMware has a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10

Thousands of servers running vCenter server could be in for a nasty surprise. | Continue reading


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Texas woman sues Griddy after being charged $9,546 for 19 days of power

Griddy blames state agency as variable-rate plans produce outrageous power bills. | Continue reading


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Fed glitch shuts down wire transfers, direct deposits, other services

A Fed statement attributed the outage to "operational error." | Continue reading


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We’ll likely have a 3rd Covid vaccine soon; J&J vaccine clears last hurdle

The vaccine could be authorized as soon as Saturday. | Continue reading


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Rockwell PLC vulnerability could allow hackers to sabotage factories

Critical authentication bypass flaw affects the entire Logix product line. | Continue reading


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Stadia undershot to the tune of “hundreds of thousands” of users

"The amount Google was willing to spend came as a shock to veteran game developers." | Continue reading


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The genetics of relatively healthy obesity

A new study finds genes linked to both high fat and indicators of good health. | Continue reading


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Google reportedly promises change to research team after high-profile firings

The changes follow the abrupt departures of Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell. | Continue reading


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CDC’s VaccineFinder aims to help you find Covid shots–but needs a lot of work

The site is still ramping up, but aims to be a central, streamlined resource. | Continue reading


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Watch Sitrep: Azerbaijan's TB2 Drone Video – CNE

Footage of TB-2 from Bayractash.All other footage from Dvids. Music through Audioblocks. | Continue reading


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Google’s Wear OS neglect has left voice activation broken for months

Broken voice commands are the latest sign that Google doesn't care about Wear OS. | Continue reading


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Judge orders Valve to provide some Steam sales data to Apple

Order now covers only 436 Steam games, not the 30,000 Apple sought. | Continue reading


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We’re 3x more likely to buy an EV if we’ve ridden in one, survey finds

Once again, data shows that experience is key to electric vehicle adoption. | Continue reading


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Framework startup designed a thin, modular, repairable 13-inch laptop

Thin like an XPS 13, but repairable like a beige box? We want to believe. | Continue reading


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Working from home now? Your 2020 state tax situation could suck

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Despite a steadily slipping market share, Firefox is snappy and feature-forward

Despite a steadily slipping market share, Firefox is snappy and feature-forward. | Continue reading


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USPS picks a new mail truck–and no, they won’t all be electric

Oshkosh Defense will design and build 50,000-165,000 NGDV trucks over 10 years. | Continue reading


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California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in loss for ISPs

Judge denies injunction, letting Calif. enforce law while ISPs' suit continues. | Continue reading


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Fry's electronics is closing all stores

Former king of build-your-own-PC retailers couldn't survive COVID, consignment shift. | Continue reading


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Scientists create new class of “Turing patterns” in colonies of E. coli

Computer science pioneer Alan Turing first proposed the patterning mechanism in 1952. | Continue reading


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Garden-variety germs may explode in Covid’s wake, study suggests

In coronavirus' wake, garden-variety germs may come roaring back. | Continue reading


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SEC halts trading of iced tea company that pivoted to blockchain

The company's blockchain business "never became operational," SEC says. | Continue reading


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Lenovo updates ThinkPad lineup with 16:10 screens and more

The new laptops launch this spring. | Continue reading


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Samsung now updates Android for longer than Google does

Galaxy devices going back to 2019 are now getting four years of security updates. | Continue reading


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Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with in-game currency

Fortnite and Rocket League players will get over $78 million in digital goods. | Continue reading


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The Bitcoin blockchain is helping keep a botnet from being taken down

Wallet transactions camouflage the IP address of the botnet's control server. | Continue reading


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Apple beats Samsung in phone sales for first time since 2016

Apple sold almost 80 million phones in Q4 2020. | Continue reading


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"I can, and have, watched those videos for hours." | Continue reading


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AT&T raised phone prices 153% over a decade as service got steadily worse. | Continue reading


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Self-driving companies are inching toward fully driverless service

Motional has completed 100,000 rides with safety drivers in Las Vegas. | Continue reading


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Microsoft throws Google under the bus in European news fight

Google has blasted "link tax" proposals as antithetical to the open Web. | Continue reading


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