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Feb 07 • 3 months ago

COVID-19 cleared the skies but also supercharged methane emissions

Less pollution meant lower amounts of a methane-destroying chemical.

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Feb 07 • 3 months ago

Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine

Analysts expect Valve might be hit particularly hard by soaring RAM, storage prices.

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Feb 07 • 3 months ago

Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets

Incident is at least the third time the exchange has been targeted by thieves.

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Feb 07 • 3 months ago

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

Behold the most overwrought AI legal filings you will ever gaze upon.

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Feb 07 • 3 months ago

Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge

Claims of penis injections in ski jumpers has fillers spewing into the news.

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Feb 07 • 3 months ago

Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.

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Feb 06 • 3 months ago

The Download: helping cancer survivors to give birth, and cleaning up Bangladesh’s garment industry

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An experimental surgery is helping cancer survivor

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Feb 06 • 3 months ago

Stellantis swallows $26 billion costs as it rethinks its EV strategy

The automaker follows Ford and GM in writing down huge sums after betting wrong.

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Feb 06 • 3 months ago

To reuse or not reuse—the eternal debate of New Glenn's second stage reignites

A new job posting suggests the debate may be swinging back toward reusing GS2.

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Feb 06 • 3 months ago

Driven: The 2026 Lamborghini Temerario raises the bar for supercars

This V8 hybrid with more than 900 hp replaces the V10 Huracán.

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Feb 06 • 3 months ago

New critique debunks claim that trees can sense a solar eclipse

Controversial 2025 study "represents the encroachment of pseudoscience into the heart of biological research."

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Feb 06 • 3 months ago

Lawmakers ask what it would take to "store" the International Space Station

NASA shall evaluate the "viability of transferring the ISS to a safe orbital harbor" after retirement.

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