There's good news for NASA, bad news for Cassini, and what on earth do bricks have to do with space?
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Microsoft's overall quarterly results were excellent, but the company's hardware divisions were a different story. Decline in the Xbox market is expected, but a huge drop in Surface sales doesn't look good. Meanwhile, Windows 10 Mobile is barely on life support.
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Nintendo has announced a new 2DS XL in a familiar clamshell package. If you've wanted a discounted New 3DS XL, this is the hardware you're looking for.
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The first images from the Grand Finale have been sent back to NASA, and they're stunning. They're also just the start -- Cassini has 21 more close orbits planned.
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British inventor Richard Browning tests his personal flightsuit before a demonstration at the TED conference in Vancouver. The jet-powered suit, named Daedalus, allows Browning to fly for around 10 minutes
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Intel's shaking up its Xeon branding with a new branding scheme. New chip introductions and capabilities may not be far behind.
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Western Digital has come through on its promise late last year to release a 12TB hard drive. It will not be cheap.
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The AFP commissioner, Andrew Colvin, says an officer unlawfully accessed a journalist’s phone records, which were held under the government’s controversial metadata retention regime. ‘What was accessed was the records of calls, not the content of those calls. Just the fact of the existence of the calls in the first place,’ he says. ‘This was human error. It should not have occurred. The AFP takes it very seriously and we take full responsibility for breaching the act.’
• Federal police admit to accessing journalist’s metadata without a warrant
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This claim is based on a reexamination of purported stone tools and broken mastodon bones that were uncovered in the early 1990s. However, not all researchers who have seen the research agree with the findings.
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Nintendo's Switch sales are booming, with a reported 2.74 million consoles sold to date. Nintendo believes it can ship 10 million units this year; some analysts think they're low-balling the total.
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We found a peptide on frog skin that destroys the influenza virus with extreme prejudice.
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From flexible impact armor to folding solar sails to treads on rover wheels, this unique hybrid space fabric is capable of a lot.
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Businesses, governments, and malicious individuals are more than happy to gather as much information about your browsing habits as possible. Pushing back on that requires a fair amount of work, but a VPN is a good place to begin. And for a limited time, you can save hundreds on a subscription to VPN Unlimited.
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Amazon's new Echo Look touts fashion advice as its major feature, but it's a major push to put "smart" devices in the bedroom.
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AMD's latest chipset driver contains important updates for anyone using a Ryzen 5 or Ryzen 7 system.
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Microsoft's new Project Scorpio is being shown off behind the scenes -- and the console's increased firepower can meaningfully improve visual fidelity as well as rendering at higher resolutions.
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Advances in computer science and engineering have lifted animatronic lovers from the realms of science fiction to reality; the first models are due to go on sale by the end of the year. Jenny Kleeman meets the men who are making the sex robots, the customers who want to buy them – and the critics who say they are dangerous
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FCC chairman Pai has released a plan to roll back the 2015 Title II "common carrier" reclassification, essentially gutting net neutrality in the US.
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Doctors in the Netherlands are now testing a new type of prosthetic "click-on" arm that is connected to the patient's existing nerves. It needs a little help from Bluetooth, but the end result is a prosthetic controlled with the mind.
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If you're on the fence about the Nintendo Switch, you might just change your mind by the time the weekend rolls around. On April 28th, an updated version of Mario Kart 8 is being released on Nintendo's new hybrid console, and it's getting rave reviews.
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If you want a desktop PC with a good balance between performance and price, check out the Dell Inspiron 3650. With a quad-core Skylake processor and a substantial amount of memory, this flexible PC is a fantastic bargain when you use today's 47% total discount.
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48-volt electric turbochargers and motor generators can yield big savings. A $2,000 investment might increase fuel economy 20 percent.
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Verizon gave itself a hearty pat on the back earlier this week as it rolled out a new gigabit tier of its FiOS internet service. The new option, Verizon said in the press release, would only cost $70 per month. This isn't exactly a lie, but it doesn't get the whole truth across.
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Seagate and DJI have partnered to create a drone-friendly hard drive. The well-named Fly Drive bakes in a microSD slot so you don't need to worry about carrying a reader into the field.
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One modding team is working on implementing Fallout New Vegas in the Fallout 4 engine, but a total conversion is outside the scope of the current project. Early work still looks gorgeous and hopefully one day we'll see an updated version of Obsidian's RPG.
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At a TED talk in Vancouver on Tuesday, the pontiff says the greater the power held by world leaders, the greater their duty is to ‘act humbly’. Speaking from the Vatican via video link, the pope says he hopes technological innovation will bring equality and social inclusion
AMD's new Radeon Pro Duo isn't as fast as the Radeon Pro Duo it launched last year -- but it does offer 4x the RAM, a significantly reduced price, and much lower power consumption.
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Waymo, which was spun-off from Google X's self-driving car project, has started offering regular folks a lift in its driverless vehicles.
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SK Hynix has announced production on GDDR6 with launches expected in early 2018 -- but wasn't HBM2 supposed to obviate the need for higher-speed conventional memory?
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Amazon is studying self-driving vehicles. The goal (probably): Amazon's own fleet of self-driving vehicles to speed delivery. Pretty soon, no more need for UPS or FedEx.
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Whether you want to strike out on your own on the app store or start a career in software engineering, you're going to need to learn to code. Today, SkillWise is offering up ten beefy courses that will help you navigate the fundamentals of modern programming.
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A new show from National Geographic will focus on the life of Albert Einstein, showcasing him as both an older and younger man, and with an eye towards his personal life -- not simply his scientific endeavors.
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Polish adventurers took a trip to Pripyat just ahead of the 31st anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, to see if any of that ancient Soviet tech still worked. It did.
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You can learn some things from "speed test" videos, but not as much as you think.
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Barack Obama says people should be more ‘circumspect’ with selfie-taking, as he ‘probably wouldn’t have been president of the United States’ if certain high school photos had surfaced. The former US president was speaking at the University of Chicago on Monday in his first public appearance since leaving the White House
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Intel's new Optane drives, based on 3DXPoint memory, are finally available, but the consumer performance may not be quite what enthusiasts had hoped.
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Google announced a new and improved VR video rig called the Yi Halo. It can film multiple 4K video streams simultaneously, then feed it all into Google's special video processor to create a VR experience.
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The creators of Facebook Spaces seem to have overlooked the most basic draw of virtual reality -- that is, the freedom to explore and create environments that don’t correspond to anything remotely real.
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Built atop elements of the BitTorrent protocol, Hajime is an arguably gray-hat botnet with a few remarkable quirks in its code.
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If Project Scorpio is as beefy as Redmond is promising, there's no doubt that developers will be able to create some gorgeous console games. However, we're hoping that many current Xbox One games will get some much-needed attention as well. Today we're calling out the ten releases that deserve it the most.
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Scientists have been sounding the alarm about the buildup of space junk for years, a point that was reinforced at the recent European Conference on Space Debris.
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This week is full of the usual suspects: dark matter, terrible puns from Mars, speculation about Enceladus, and some bonus eye candy from the ESO.
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Juicero's CEO is offering a full refund to any unhappy customers who feel they were ripped off when they paid for a $700 ($400 now) juicer with $5 juice packs that expire within a week, tops, and can be squeezed by hand with identical results. Wonder if anybody will take him up on it?
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Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf provided an update on the future of Windows on ARM in a recent investor call, saying the first Qualcomm-based Windows PCs will be available at the end of this year.
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Apple has released its annual environmental report and challenged itself to build an iPhone from fully recyclable materials, but it also explicitly refuses to allow its iPhones or Macs to be repaired or reused.
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Looking for a single service to download and stream your favorite tunes to your PC, smartphone, and tablet? Amazon is offering up an excellent deal on its Music Unlimited service, so now's the time to act. Get access to tens of millions of songs, entirely without ads, and your first month is gratis. Better yet, new subscribers get a bonus $10 credit too.
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You don't need an Android phone to run apps designed for the platform—with a few software downloads and a couple of tweaks, you can explore them on your PC.
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Nintendo may launch an SNES Classic this Christmas -- but this time, I won't be lining up to buy one. After waiting nearly six months to try and get the NES, I'm not playing that game again.
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Intel may be considering pulling in its upcoming HEDT and desktop refreshes. Current rumors suggest next-generation high-end desktop chips will be demoed at Computex, with Coffee Lake launching six months earlier than previously expected.
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Microsoft has started disallowing Windows 7 and 8.1 updates on machines running the latest hardware. One developer has had enough, and is releasing a patch to help users get around this artificial blockade.
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Zirconium crystals now find a new use conjuring water from thin air.
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IT security and white hat hacking are more important than they've ever been. With the potential for worldwide sabotage and corporate spying, both the private and public sectors are always looking for skilled professionals that can help protect against attacks. So if you're ready to start a career in ethical hacking, today's bundle of online courses is a good place to start.
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Astronomers have confirmed a star 39 light years away plays host to a planet that is much more Earth-like than any we've been able to spot in the past.
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As China deals with pollution and crowded magacities, it looks to small cars. Electrics and plug-in hybrids aren't just good ideas; they're the future.
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There are reports going around of end users successfully flashing RX 480 boards with RX 580 BIOSes and picking up extra performance in the process. While it's an interesting idea, this is one project we'd recommend you not take on.
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