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Alan Velasco - Mon, Jul 07, 2025
Game ownership is becoming increasingly more tenuous as publishers continue to focus on digital distribution. Even a stalwart of physical game media, Nintendo, is making use of a quasi-physical solution with Game-Key Cards on the Switch 2...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Jun 10, 2025
After decades of silence, the roar of supersonic commercial aircraft may be poised to return to American skies. Last week, President Donald Trump signed a landmark Executive Order, dismantling regulatory barriers that had long grounded...
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Victor Awogbemila - Fri, Jun 06, 2025
The number of lawsuits filed against AI companies training their models on data posted to the internet continues to grow. The ongoing legal battle between Meta and a group of authors over copyright infringement is perhaps the most...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, Jun 06, 2025
Try wrapping your head around this thought: the scientific community is declaring that smartphones may have evolved into digital parasites, subtly exploiting human vulnerabilities for the benefit of tech giants. A new study is saying that...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, Jun 06, 2025
In a nod to its past, Porsche has unveiled the 963 RSP, a one-off, road-legal version of its championship-winning 963 LMDh race car. Launched on the streets near the iconic Circuit de la Sarthe, this unique machine was also created to...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Jun 05, 2025
A dramatic maritime emergency unfolded this week in the remote waters of the North Pacific, as the crew of the car carrier Morning Midas was forced to abandon ship after an uncontrollable fire erupted, with initial reports pointing to a...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, May 27, 2025
Texas is on the cusp of enacting one of the nation's most stringent social media regulations, with House Bill 186 (also referred to as HB 18) set to prohibit individuals under the age of 18 from creating and maintaining accounts on...
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Alan Velasco - Fri, May 16, 2025
The long running feud between Epic Games and Apple marches on, as Epic Games is claiming that Apple is blocking its latest app submission for Fortnite. This comes after the latest ruling in the legal case between the two companies, in...
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Bruno Ferreira - Tue, Apr 29, 2025
After making the decision to exit the smartphone market back in 2021, LG is preparing to sunset its Android update servers for good. This move comes as no surprise to those following the phone market, but it's no less disheartening...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 09, 2025
The U.S. Department of Commerce is reportedly looking into TSMC's dealings with Sophgo, a chip designer located in China, over concerns that its silicon may have ended up in the hands of Huawei. Depending on the outcome of the...
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Victor Awogbemila - Tue, Feb 25, 2025
Adding to the growing number of lawsuits against big tech's AI developments, Chegg, an edtech company specializing in textbook rentals and tutoring, is suing Google. It alleges that Google's "AI Overviews" feature, prominently placed in...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Jan 10, 2025
The United States' outgoing presidential administration's last major action may be to impose strong export restrictions on technology and accelerated systems for artificial intelligence processing. The so-called "Export Control Framework...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, Dec 20, 2024
Tesla's ongoing quality control woes continue with new reports that its semi-autonomous driving hardware on some brand new vehicles is failing, which in turn disables Autopilot, cameras, GPS, navigation, and related active safety systems...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Dec 05, 2024
Bitcoin continues to surge and, for the first time ever, has reached and surpassed the $100,000 mark. That milestone represents a greater than 100% increase in value since the beginning of the year, when Bitcoin was trading for less than...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, Nov 22, 2024
A trusted computer benchmarking site has leaked crucial information on pretty much the entire NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 seires lineup. Of note is how the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti handily trumps the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti in CUDA cores and will be...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Oct 17, 2024
Are you familiar with the concept of "negative option marketing"? It refers to a class of customer interaction where a customer's failure to take an affirmative action, such as denying an offer, is taken as assent to be charged for...
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Ryan Whitwam - Mon, Jul 01, 2024
In years past, cryptocurrency enthusiasts who correctly navigated the volatile ups and downs of the market could net a lot of money without paying a dime in taxes. Those days are over. The US Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, May 02, 2024
Starting today, AT&T customers can pony up a monthly fee for a new wireless feature that promises enhanced data connectivity and better responsiveness. The optional feature is called AT&T Turbo and users can tack it onto a qualifying plan...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Apr 24, 2024
Nearly every kid growing up asks their parents for a pet dog at some point and time. What they may not think of asking for, however, is a robot dog capable of throwing 30-foot flames. Well, Throwflame, a company that specializes in...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Apr 19, 2024
Microsoft is showing off its AI chops with a new demo of its VASA-1, making Mona Lisa spit out rhymes like a rap star. The new framework is used for generating lifelike talking faces of virtual characters with visual affective skills...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Apr 08, 2024
For quite some time, Apple's App Store guidelines have banned applications from running software that's not "embedded in the binary." In other words, an app that loads another app is a no-go. This, obviously, had the knock-on effect of...
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Ryan Whitwam - Wed, Mar 13, 2024
Against Apple's repeated and strenuous objections, the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) kicked in earlier this month. Among other things, the DMA will force Apple to relax its iron grip on iOS software distribution just a little...
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