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Elon Musk's Boring Company has submitted a proposal for a 6.2-mile underground transit...
The North Miami Beach Loop would have seven stations and cost up to $220 million to construct, according to plans seen exclusively by Insider.
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A YouTuber attracted more than 216,000 viewers by livestreaming planes trying to land at...
Jerry Dyer, the host of Big Jet TV, is commentating live as planes struggle to land at Heathrow Airport, while tens of thousands of watch online.
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Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account
You’ll also need an internet connection during setup.
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MIT Researcher Says Yes, Advanced Neural Networks May Be Achieving Consciousness
Amid a maelstrom about AI consciousness, one MIT data scientist has highlighted that the concept might not be so far-fetched.
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A giant donut-shaped machine just proved a near-limitless clean power source is possible
Scientists working in the UK announced that they more than doubled the previous record for generating and sustaining nuclear fusion, the same process that allows the sun and stars to shine so brightly.
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Texas Lawsuit Claims Facebook's Facial Recognition Violated User Privacy and Broke the Law
The suit claims the company violated state laws by gathering and using facial recognition data on millions of users without their consent.
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Canada's major banks go offline in mysterious hours-long outage
Five major Canadian banks went offline for hours blocking access to online and mobile banking as well as e-transfers for customers. The banks reportedly hit by the outage include Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), BMO (Bank of Montreal), Scotiabank, and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).
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How big technology systems are slowing innovation
The great IT revolution is no longer promoting economic dynamism. It’s preventing it.
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AMD’s new Ryzen 6000 H-series processors are launching in laptops starting today
AMD’s latest generation of mobile processors is here. We already know a lot about them, thanks to AMD’s CES 2022 keynote, like that they’re the first processors to ship with Microsoft’s Pluton security processor, which was built to block new attack vectors that have been used to compromise PCs. More importantly to gamers, some of these new processors (including AMD’s new discrete graphics offerings) seem very powerful.
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Hundeds Of Rare Sealed Nintendo and Sega Games Discovered In Nebraska Storage Facility - IGN
A video game reseller has discovered hundreds of factory-sealed Nintendo and Sega games from the 80s and 90s inside a storage facility in Nebraska.
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DeepMind Has Trained an AI to Control Nuclear Fusion
The Google-backed AI firm taught a reinforcement learning algorithm to control the fiery plasma inside a tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.
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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
BARBARA CAMPBELL was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour when her world abruptly went dark. For four years, Campbell had been using a high-tech implant in her left eye that gave her a crude kind of bionic vision, partially compensating for the genetic disease that had rendered her completely blind in her 30s. “I remember exactly where I was: I was switching from the 6 train to the F train,” Campbell tells IEEE Spectrum.
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DOE will build nation's first large-scale facility to turn fossil fuel waste into rare...
The vast majority of critical minerals and rare earth elements that help power electric vehicles and wind turbines come from mining operations overseas. But a new initiative spearheaded by the US Department of Energy is looking for ways to extract them from fossil fuel waste.
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Read Mark Zuckerberg's 6 new corporate values for Facebook's Meta rebrand
On Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made an update to the company’s longstanding corporate values that Zuckerberg first penned in 2007 when the company he founded still called itself Facebook.
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Apple macOS Big Sur 11.6.4 update released with security fixes and solves battery drain issue
Cupertino based tech giant Apple has released macOS 11.6.4 update to macOS Big Sur that contains security fixes, as well as a macOS Catalina Security Update. According to Apple's release notes for the update, macOS Big Sur 11.6.4 "improves the security of macOS" and is recommended for all users.
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74% of ransomware revenue goes to Russia-linked hackers
Crypto-currency researchers say more than $400m of cyber-crime funds go to Russian gangs.
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Virgin Galactic stock jumps 32% as spaceflight ticket sales open with $150,000 deposit
Space tourism company Virgin Galactic announced Tuesday that it will open ticket sales to the public on Wednesday, requiring a $150,000 deposit.
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Hacker could've printed unlimited 'Ether' but chose $2M bug bounty instead
A hacker recently discovered an infinite Ether bug in scaling solution Optimism which could've wreaked havoc across the crypto ecosystem.
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Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good.
Insurance for your mind.
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Bionic Eyes Give Sheep Sight, Heading to Humans Next
The BBC reports that a team of Australian researchers gave a small flock of sheep “exceptionally sharp eyesight” — at least for sheep — using bionic eyes surgically implanted behind their retinas. The idea behind the wooly experiment was to make sure the implants didn’t cause undesirable side effects. Now, the team from the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales say they’ve filed paperwork to start human trials...
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Missouri ends effort to prosecute 'view source' journalist
Despite all logic, state governor still insists hitting F12 in a web browser is 'hacking'
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Canadian government is invoking its Emergencies Act to try to quell COVID protests
Conservatives say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's measures to try to end the protests will inflame the situation.
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Snapchat will put ads within stories and share the money with creators
A small group of verified users are part of the beta test.
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New report details how Apple forced Facebook to pivot its advertising tech
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, reported a 26% decrease in revenue last week, a total of $250 billion.
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Astronomers now say the rocket about to strike the Moon is not a Falcon 9
About three weeks ago Ars Technica first reported that astronomers were tracking the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket, and were increasingly confident that it would strike the Moon on March 4.
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Quantum internet: the second quantum revolution
Quantum teleportation allows information to be transmitted between two linked quantum particles regardless of the distance that separates them. Unlike science fiction teleportation, which sends matter from one point in space to another, quantum teleportation sends information.
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Coal mines transformed society. Now, their flooded remains could heat the homes of the future
The ramifications of the Industrial Revolution, which had its roots in 18th-century Britain, were huge. Britain’s abundance of coal — as well as the ease with which it could be accessed — was a crucial ingredient in this historical turning point, powering the steam engines which helped drive society’s transformation.
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U.S. lawmakers introduce bipartisan bill to address social media addiction
U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, and Cynthia Lummis, a Republican, introduced a bill aimed at addressing addiction to social media platforms like Meta Platform's Facebook or Twitter.
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Drones as Big as 747s Will Fly Cargo Around the World With Low Emissions
The global supply chain is currently experiencing all kinds of glitches, from material shortages to labor shortages and beyond. Moving goods from point A to point B has become more expensive, and there’s no quick fix in sight. But a San Diego-based startup plans to meet some of the demand for air freight with an innovative solution: autonomous cargo drones as big as a Boeing 747. And customers are jumping on board.
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Best Buy Needs to Quit This Nonsense
In case attempting to buy a graphics card at or near retail prices hasn’t been demoralizing enough, Best Buy is here to kick us while we’re down. The retailer is exploiting the ongoing supply shortage and our resulting desperation to force customers into paying another $200 for a shot at buying a graphics card.




















