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Jan 05 • 4 months ago

BioWare’s Anthem will soon be completely unplayable

Replay the troubled jetpack shooter before the servers shut down for good on Jan. 12. ...

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Jan 05 • 4 months ago

SanDisk says goodbye to WD Blue and Black SSDs, hello to new “Optimus” drives

Optimus SSDs will continue with the same model numbers that the WD SSDs used. ...

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Jan 05 • 4 months ago

Amazon Alexa+ released to the general public via an early access website

Amazon brings back browser-based Alexa but will eventually add a paywall. ...

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Jan 05 • 4 months ago

Stewart Cheifet, PBS host who chronicled the PC revolution, dies at 87

Cheifet produced more than 400 episodes of TV tracing the rise of personal computing. ...

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Jan 05 • 4 months ago

Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy

"We don't believe this has to do with our Spotify backup," Anna's Archive says. ...

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Jan 05 • 4 months ago

Drake and livestreamer Adin Ross accused of using online casino money to artificially inflate streams in class action case

US class action alleges Stake’s anonymised design enabled rapper to fund automated streams on music platformsDrake and American livestreamer Adin Ross have been accused in a US civil case of...

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Jan 03 • 4 months ago

Researchers spot Saturn-sized planet in the “Einstein desert”

Rogue, free-floating planets appear to have two distinct origins. ...

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Jan 03 • 4 months ago

OpenAI reorganizes some teams to build audio-based AI hardware products

Voice has lagged in adoption behind screens. OpenAI wants to change that. ...

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Jan 03 • 4 months ago

Healthy 18-year-old welder nearly died of anthrax—the 9th such puzzling case

"Welder's Anthrax" was first coined in 2022, when seven cases had been identified. ...

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Jan 03 • 4 months ago

No, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images

Letting the unreliable Grok be its own "spokesperson" lets xAI off the hook. ...

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Jan 02 • 4 months ago

After half a decade, the Russian space station segment stopped leaking

"NASA and Roscosmos continue to monitor and investigate the previously observed cracks." ...

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Jan 02 • 4 months ago

Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline

Deadly doors, a busted battery bet, and a toxic owner: What's not to like? ...

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