Tim Sweezy
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Max is joining the ranks of streaming services cracking down on password sharing. The news came during a recent Warner Bros. earnings call, where chief financial officer Gunnar Wiedenfels reported the gradual initial rollout of the crackdown will continue in 2025 and 2026.
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China’s Mars rover Zhurong has found additional evidence to support the theory that Mars was once a vast ocean world. The new findings include tracing some ancient coastlines that may have once experienced lapping ocean waves.
The data collected by the Mars rover was during the Tianwen-1 mission, and shows an...
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With Christmas quickly approaching, there is no better time to get started on shopping for gifts than the here and now. And it just so happens, Best Buy has some incredible deals on smartwatches from the likes of Apple, Samsung, and Fitbit going on right now.
Apple Watch Series 9 (GPS)
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Nikon has announced its new Z50 II APS-C mirrorless camera aimed at content creators. The small but powerful camera comes packed with features and functions, such as a dedicated Picture Control button.
The world of mirrorless cameras continues to grow, with other companies such as Fujifilm releasing its own X-M5...
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Earth’s Sun has been heating up as of late, reaching its 11-year solar cycle maximum in October. Because of this, the bright orb in the sky has been emitting some of the strongest solar flares recorded in the last 50 years.
Now, according to NASA, it has spewed out an intense solar flare that took out radio...
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Google has given notice that anyone using its Google Cloud services will need to secure their account(s) via 2FA, as the tech giant will be making it mandatory by the end of 2025.
The move is similar to when Github required all developers using its platform to protect their accounts with two-factor authentication...
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Valve first announced its Steam Game Recording feature in June of this year, almost taunting players with the moniker “Clips, or it didn’t happen.” Since that time, Game Recording has been in beta, and therefore only available to certain gamers. Now, however, the handy recording feature is available for use across the...
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Google has been the king of search for many years. However, competition is beginning to heat up, with Microsoft enticing people to use its Bing via a $1 million sweepstakes, and now OpenAI offering up its own AI-infused search engine, ChatGPT Search.
OpenAI announced its ChatGPT Search feature at the beginning of...
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The search engine battle has been heating up, with new contenders like OpenAI’s ChatGPT search engine emerging onto the scene, as well as a possible breakup of Google by the Department of Justice looming in the background. So, it is no surprise that Microsoft is looking at new ways of trying to persuade people to use...
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New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory unveiled that a low-mass supermassive black hole, known as LID-568, appears to eating up matter at over 40 times the theoretical limit. The discovery of the supermassive black hole, thought to be within 1.5 billion years after the Big...
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While October may have ended in a spectacular fashion with a headless comet meeting its demise, November promises to be just as exciting for skywatchers. Be sure to be on the lookout for three different meteor showers that promise to provide plenty of shooting stars.
The first of three upcoming meteor showers to...
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The holiday shopping season is nearly upon us, and there is no better time to get started than now with some great deals currently running on a number of Apple products. Whether someone is buying for a student who needs a new laptop, or someone who has an audiophile on their list, there are a bunch of deals in the...
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After being on the Dow Jones Industrial Average for 25 years, Intel is being replaced by tech rival NVIDIA. The news of Intel being removed from the Dow comes in the same week the tech bellwether reported a $16.6 billion dollar loss in the third quarter of 2024.
In a press release, the S&P Dow Jones Indices...
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Microsoft is once again delaying the release of Recall, its controversial AI feature. After an previous delay, Recall was supposed to be made available for testing with Windows Insiders last month, however the tech giant says it still needs more time to refine it.
As Microsoft kicked off the Copilot+ PC era earlier...
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As scientists and others look at how to make Mars habitable for life in the future, NASA’s Perseverance rover remains busy exploring the Martian surface. The rover recently spotted a striped rock unlike any other on the Red Planet before, which the space agency stated possessed qualities that may be indicators of...
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Apple gave a behind-the-scenes look into how the company went about adding a hearing aid feature to its AirPods Pro 2 earbuds recently. The science behind the feature was fine-tuned at Apple’s state-of-the-art Audio Lab in Cupertino, California, where acoustic engineers conducted user studies in various listening...
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Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, which was viewed up close by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986, has been the focus of more than a few studies over the last few decades. One of the more recent studies included planetary scientists clearing up a perplexing problem surrounding the planet’s weaker-than-anticipated...
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Apple just wraped up its week full of announcements with its refreshed MacBook Pro lineup, featuring the new family of M4 chips. The new laptops from the Cupertino-based company will offer an advanced 12MP Center Stage camera, Thunderbolt 5 on M4 Pro and M4 Max models, an option of an all-new nano-texture display, and...
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Boeing may be looking to call it quits in terms of its space program after its Starliner debacle caused the company and its employees months of humiliation. Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg reportedly wants to offload Starliner, the projects that support the International Space Station, and the majority of the company’s space...
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NASA reconnected with its Voyager 1 spacecraft more than 15 billion miles from Earth by flipping the switch on a backup radio not used on the spacecraft since 1981. The space agency reported Voyager 1 recently turned off one of its two radio transmitters, and the team is currently working to figure out what caused...
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NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft captured the moment when a headless Halloween comet flew too close to the Sun and vaporized. Comet 2024 S1 ATLAS reached its perihelion, or closest approach to the Sun on Sunday around 7:30am ET.
Comet 2024 S1 was first discovered on September 27, 2024, in...
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At long last, Apple has finally unleashed its much ballyhooed Apple Intelligence onto its iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices, including its brand new M4 iMac lineup. People who own a supported device can now "tap into Apple Intelligence" to experience a new Siri, refine their writing, and more.
The Cupertino-based tech...
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