Streaming subscription fees have been rising while content quality is dropping
Subscription fees for video streaming services have been on a steady incline. But despite subscribers paying more, surveys suggest that viewers are becoming less satisfied with what’s available to...
View ArticleMeet the winners of Nikon’s 2024 photomicrography contest
A stunning image of differentiated mouse brain tumor cells has won the 2024 Nikon Small World photomicrography contest, yielding valuable insight into how degenerate diseases like Alzheimer’s and ALS...
View ArticleShady drugmaker used code words to sell knockoff weight-loss drug: lawsuit
Amid ongoing legal battles over coveted GLP-1 therapies, a drug vendor in Washington state is accused of running an outlandish scheme to sell do-it-yourself kits to make illicit knockoff versions of...
View ArticleDe-extinction company provides a progress report on thylacine efforts
Colossal, the company founded to try to restore the mammoth to the Arctic tundra, has also decided to tackle a number of other species that have gone extinct relatively recently: the dodo and the...
View ArticleAfter nozzle failure, Space Force is “assessing” impacts to Vulcan schedule
United Launch Alliance has started assembling its next Vulcan rocket—the first destined to launch a US military payload—as the Space Force prepares to certify it to loft the Pentagon’s most precious...
View ArticleiOS 18.2 developer beta adds ChatGPT and image-generation features
Today, Apple released the first developer beta of iOS 18.2 for supported devices. This beta release marks the first time several key AI features that Apple teased at its developer conference this June...
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Nintendo Wii U consoles are dying due to memory-related issues, but there’s a...
According to retro-focused podcaster “Retro Blast,” Wii U consoles are “literally dying” due to unreliable memory chips used as system memory. If the device is left without power for too long, the...
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Linus Torvalds is “fed up” with making kernel changes to address faulty hardware
Linux Creator Linus Torvalds recently expressed frustration with change proposals to the Linux kernel that are only “required” due to faulty hardware. Phoronix notes that Torvalds ranted on the Linux...
View ArticlePlease ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC
It’s been just a week since US telecom regulators announced a formal inquiry into broadband data caps, and the docket is filling up with comments from users who say they shouldn’t have to pay overage...
View ArticleFor the strongest disc golf throws, it’s all in the thumbs
When Zachary Lindsey, a physicist at Berry College in Georgia, decided to run an experiment on how to get the best speed and torque while playing disc golf (aka Frisbee golf), he had no trouble...
View ArticleChatbot that caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids, lawsuit says
Fourteen-year-old Sewell Setzer III loved interacting with Character.AI’s hyper-realistic chatbots—with a limited version available for free or a “supercharged” version for a $9.99 monthly fee—most...
View ArticleAt TED AI 2024, experts grapple with AI’s growing pains
SAN FRANCISCO—On Tuesday, TED AI 2024 kicked off its first day at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater with a lineup of speakers that tackled AI’s impact on science, art, and society. The two-day event...
View ArticleTesla makes $2.2 billion in profit during Q3 2024
After a rocky first half of the year, Tesla enjoyed a much healthier third quarter in 2024. As we learned earlier this month, it arrested a slide in sales, delivering 6 percent more electric vehicles...
View ArticleLocation tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.
You likely have never heard of Babel Street or Location X, but chances are good that they know a lot about you and anyone else you know who keeps a phone nearby around the clock. Reston,...
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Microsoft Photos app gets AI super resolution upscaling in Windows Insider build
For some time, certain smartphones have offered locally-processed AI applications to edit and enhance photos, and with the introduction of Snapdragon X Elite SoCs and other NPU-enhanced processors,...
View ArticleBird flu hit a dead end in Missouri, but it’s running rampant in California
As H5N1 bird flu continues to spread wildly among California dairy herds and farmworkers, federal health officials on Thursday offered some relatively good news about Missouri: The wily avian...
View ArticleWith four more years like 2023, carbon emissions will blow past 1.5° limit
On Thursday, the United Nations’ Environmental Programme (UNEP) released a report on what it terms the “emissions gap”—the difference between where we’re heading and where we’d need to be to achieve...
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Big Cable and others file multiple lawsuits to block the FTC’s...
Telecom, advertising, and newspaper lobbying groups have filed multiple lawsuits to block the Federal Trade Commission’s adoption of its newly approved “Click-to-Cancel” regulation. It’s not surprising...
View ArticleTaco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, Burger King pull onions amid McDonald’s outbreak
Big-name fast food chains, including Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and Burger King, are reportedly pulling onions off their menus in certain locations amid a deadly, multistate outbreak of E. coli...
View ArticleBoeing is still bleeding money on the Starliner commercial crew program
Sometimes, it’s worth noting when something goes unsaid. On Wednesday, Boeing’s new CEO, Kelly Ortberg, participated in his first quarterly conference call with investment analysts. Under fire from...
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