Oracle enters race to buy TikTok’s US operations

Working with investors in effort to outbid Microsoft after Trump divestment order. | Continue reading


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Could a Dragon spacecraft fly humans to the Moon? It’s complicated

"Do you really want to get to the Moon by 2024 or not?" | Continue reading


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Cities sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, claim they owe cable “franchise fees”

Cities demand 5% of revenue, claim online video uses "public rights of way." | Continue reading


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Apple threatens to boot Epic–including Unreal Engine–off Mac and iOS

Fortnite is just one game; Unreal Engine powers dozens more. | Continue reading


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9k-year-old skeleton is the oldest cremation in the Near East

The cremated remains are a reminder of what archaeology can, and can't, tell us. | Continue reading


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Planet X? Why not a tiny black hole instead?

Unsuccessful at finding planet X? Substitute with undetectable black hole. | Continue reading


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Fabulous fossil preserves eyes of 429M-year-old trilobite

Cellular structure of compound eye preserved in beautiful detail. | Continue reading


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Alexa bug could have exposed voice history to hackers

Amazon has patched the flaw, but remember to lock down your voice assistant interactions. | Continue reading


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FDA finds new toxic hand-sanitizer ingredient, expands warning to 157 products

Regulators find toxic 1-propanol as well as methanol in some products. | Continue reading


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Hackers can eavesdrop on mobile calls with $7k worth of equipment

VoLTE calls were supposed to be more secure. A fatal flaw can unravel that promise. | Continue reading


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Tesla research partnership progresses on new battery chemistry

Lithium metal batteries could increase EV range, but longevity must improve. | Continue reading


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Charter can charge online video sites for network connections

Court kills ban on interconnection fees because FCC didn't defend merger condition. | Continue reading


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People slept on comfy grass beds 200k years ago

The earliest members of our species slept on piles of grass alongside warm hearth fires. | Continue reading


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Spooky action at a distance: The future magic of remote collaboration

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SpaceX Starlink speeds revealed as beta users get downloads of 11 to 60Mbps

Ookla tests aren't showing the gigabit speeds SpaceX teased, but it's early. | Continue reading


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NSA and FBI warn that new Linux malware threatens national security

Previously unknown Drovorub is being used by advanced hacking group APT 28. | Continue reading


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Supercapacitors from Standard Bricks

A coating process makes it work. But is it practical? | Continue reading


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Drivers complain of need for “constant monitoring and intervention.” | Continue reading


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Mozilla lays off a quarter of the company

Mozilla reduces investment in developer tools and platform feature development. | Continue reading


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Police use of facial recognition violates human rights, UK court rules

Use of the tech needs to be narrower to conform to human rights law, court held. | Continue reading


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Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network

Google leverages the massive scale of Android to do phone-based earthquake tracking. | Continue reading


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Always read the fine print? GM Super Cruise only free for three years

It turns out the advanced hands-free driving system requires a subscription. | Continue reading


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EA shareholders say no to proposed raises for executives

Proposal would have seen year-to-year increases of over 100% for some execs. | Continue reading


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NJ Supreme Court: No 5th Amendment right not to unlock your phone

Courts are split on whether phone unlocking orders violate the Fifth Amendment. | Continue reading


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Google says it’s working hard to address YouTube Music complaints

Google Music is shutting down soon, but Google wants users to stick around. | Continue reading


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Independent testing confirms the Lucid Air has a range of 517 miles

We knew the Air could go really fast, now we know it can go really far. | Continue reading


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Polestar 2 has a great cabin–and deep Android integration

A welcome addition to the battery electric vehicle market. | Continue reading


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Hyundai will launch three new electric cars, starting in 2021

There’s a new platform, and the first new car is next year’s Ioniq 5 crossover. | Continue reading


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Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong

Apple AI chief and ex-Googler John Giannandrea dives into the details with Ars. | Continue reading


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Chinese Hackers Have Pillaged Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry

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Lawn chairs and kitchen tables: Ergonomics in the involuntary work-from-home era

Or, how to work at home for the long haul without violating workplace health and safety laws. | Continue reading


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Bill Gates on Covid-19: Most US tests are “completely garbage”

Gates on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice.” | Continue reading


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Three algorithm-less streaming sites revive the wacky Web from days of yore

"Keeping the good Internet alive"—one open sourced, algorithm-less site at a time. | Continue reading


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Chinese hackers have (allegedly) stolen Taiwan's chip designs, SDKs and source

Operation Skeleton Key has stolen source code, SDKs, chip designs, and more. | Continue reading


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Snapdragon chip flaws put 1B Android phones at risk of data theft

There's no word on when Google and phone makers will incorporate fix from Qualcomm. | Continue reading


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Trailer for Ridley Scott’s Raised by Wolves is giving us strong Alien vibes

Scott directed the first two episodes, so this is his US television directorial debut. | Continue reading


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The quest to liberate $300k of Bitcoin from an old ZIP file

A few quintillion possible decryption keys stand between a man and his cryptocurrency. | Continue reading


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Driver-assistance features remain half baked

Drivers complain of need for “constant monitoring and intervention.” | Continue reading


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Mass hijacking spree takes over subreddits to promote Donald Trump

Reddit regains control of accounts and removes hacker's message. | Continue reading


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More than 20GB of Intel source code and proprietary data dumped online

“Exconfidential Lake” leak includes docs Intel provided under NDA as recently as May. | Continue reading


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Five charged with felonies for tweeting or retweeting a cop’s photo

"I never heard of retweeting a tweet being a crime," one defendant wrote. | Continue reading


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Google kills the Pixel 4, making it the shortest-lived Pixel ever

The troubled Pixel 4 lasted nine-and-a-half months on the market. | Continue reading


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Cadillac reveals the Lyriq, its new long-range electric SUV

GM’s head of electric powertrains tells us more about the new platform. | Continue reading


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False Covid-19 claims taken down by Facebook and Twitter

The takedown is a first for Facebook, which usually stays away from Trump posts. | Continue reading


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Seeed Studio’s Odyssey is a mini-PC for big projects and small wallets

If a Raspberry Pi and a Chromebox had a baby, it would look a lot like this. | Continue reading


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Coronavirus clobbers Uber, leading to $1.8B quarterly loss

Delivery bookings doubled last quarter while ride bookings plunged 75 percent. | Continue reading


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Here’s why Apple believes it’s an AI leader—and why it says critics have it all wrong

Apple AI chief and ex-Googler John Giannandrea dives into the details with Ars. | Continue reading


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Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all

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