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Friday January 10, 2025. 12:00 PM
In 2024, natural disasters related to variations in the water cycle caused more than 8,700 deaths and at least $550 billion of economic loss.
The all-new Ecobee Essential smart thermostat Ecobee unveiled at CES this week delivers most of the features that we like about the higher-end Enhanced ($190) and Premium ($250) models, but at a much more wallet-friendly price of just $130. With the Essential, Ecobee aims to ...
Hastings has a mystery to solve – how did all those customers get offered refunds? UK insurer Hastings Direct had a few technical issues this week after some of its customers were told they'd receive refunds, only to have their hopes dashed by a hasty apology.…
An IT engineer from Wales lost a decade-long legal battle to recover a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins from a Newport landfill. The hard drive, accidentally thrown away in 2013, is now valued between $700-750 million. crypto.news reports: However, Judge Keyser KC ruled...
Investigation says scheme allegedly raked in £145k and sold nearly 2,000 fake records to the unvaccinated The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has taken its case against two Luton men further by charging them over the alleged distribution of fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination...
Screenshot showed it wasn't a possible attack – unless you qualify everything Google does as a threat On Call Velkomin, Vælkomin, Hoş geldin, and welcome to Friday, and therefore to another edition of On Call – The Register's end-of-week celebration of the tech support ...
TL;DR: Get 10TB of secure cloud storage for life through Internxt, only $279.99 with code HOLIDAY20. When did everything become a monthly subscription? If you’re using Dropbox or iCloud or burn through the meager free space on Google Drive, then that’s another monthly...
World Economic Forum finds huge demand for brainbox skills, news for how it changes your role Think tank and advocacy org the World Economic Forum has predicted strong growth in jobs that AI can’t replace, plus big demand for skills to automate those that can.…
Scientists said the world just reached a grim milestone: the first full year where global temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial times. Reuters reports: The milestone was confirmed by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), which said climate...
Did Zuck’s definition of ‘free expression’ just get even broader? Meta allegedly downloaded material from an online source that’s been sued for breaching copyright, because it wanted the material to train its AI models, according to a new court filing.…
Everything in Australia is deadly, in this case giant eagles guarding eggs in places wireless broadband techs need to reach Australia’s National Broadband Network has started building bird’s nests.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Some of the world's most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members of the advertising industry to harvest sensitive location data on a massive scale, with that data ending up with a location data company whose ...
While the destructive Los Angeles fires rage, all eyes have turned to the app that lets you track them. WIRED spoke with Watch Duty founder John Mills about how the platform has met the moment.
Lenovo’s already showing them off in a bonkers laptop CES Laptops with rollable displays that allow expanded screens are about to become a thing, thanks to Lenovo and Samsung.…
Christie Wilcox reports via Science.org: Both longhorn crazy ants (Paratrechina longicornis) and humans can figure out how to work together to move an unwieldy object through a series of obstacles. So scientists pitted the two against each other. They had individuals and...
The Biden administration plans one additional round of restrictions on the export of AI chips before leaving office, 'a final push in his effort to keep advanced technologies out of the hands of China and Russia,' reports Bloomberg. From the report: The US wants to curb the...
With wind speeds falling, firefighting reinforcements arriving from out of state, and more water sources online, authorities now have a critical window to take control of the situation.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said quantum computers won't be very useful for another 20 years, causing stocks in this emerging sector to plunge more than 40% for a total market value loss of over $8 billion. 'If you kind of said 15 years for very useful quantum computers, that'd...
TP-Link’s Tapo smart home ecosystem gained a host of new products at CES 2025, including new home security cameras, smart lighting products—including a bona fide NVR system. But if the recent stories about security flaws in TP-Link routers gives you pause, TP-Link...
New information about the handheld seems to spring up every day, but it’s unclear when the Switch successor will make its appearance. It also doesn’t matter.
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