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Sunday August 3, 2025. 04:34 PM
An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget: Nintendo sold 5.82 million Switch 2s in less than four weeks and is on pace to hit its target of 15 million units by April 2026, the company said in its latest earnings report. If that pans out, the Switch 2 would easily...
In 2025, 256 gigabytes just isn’t enough, and tacking on more storage isn’t as easy as it sounds.
'Did Craigslist drive the downfall of print classifieds?' That's the question asked in a new article from the nonprofit Poynter Institute for Media Studies: 'I've always wondered about that,' Newmark said in a Zoom interview July 1. 'I think it had an effect.' But portraying ...
Hit by subscription fatigue? Here’s what happens to your files and photos if you cancel your paid storage plan.
Plus: why takedowns aren't in threat-intel analysts' best interest interview It started out small: One US financial services company wanted to stop unknown crooks from spoofing their trading app, tricking customers into giving the digital thieves their login credentials and...
By proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse.
From barf to blood, your stained mattress isn’t necessarily beyond repair. Here’s how to salvage your investment from every worst-case scenario.
New Uptime survey flags cost, power, outages Being able to forecast future capacity requirements is a growing concern for datacenter operators as they face conflicting factors such as rising costs, power constraints, and meeting the demands of AI workloads.…
'Digital storefront Itch.io is reindexing its free adult games,' reports Engadget, 'and is talking to its partnered payment processors about plans to gradually reintroduce paid NSFW content...' In a statement included in the Itch.io update, Stripe said it hasn't closed the...
Established in 1943 to coordinate America's building of the first atomic bomb, the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico is still 'one of the world's largest and most advanced scientific institutions' notes Wikipedia. And it now has a 'National Security AI Office,' where...
It's a cultural milestone. Fiverr just released an ad mocking vibe coding. The video features what its description calls a 'clueless entrepreneur' building an app to tell if an avocado is ripe — who soon ends up blissfully singing with an avocado to the tune of the cheesy...
Remember, it's all synthesized 'anthropomorphizing'. But with that caveat, Science News reports: In populations of simple software agents (like characters in 'The Sims' but much, much simpler), having 'guilt' can be a stable strategy that benefits them and increases...
The women-only app Tea now 'faces two class action lawsuits filed in California' in response to a recent breach,' reports NPR — even as the company is now boasting it has more than 6.2 million users. A spokesperson for Tea told the CBC it's 'working to identify any users...
Saturday August 2, 2025. 10:34 PM
The Washington Post reports: In early July, a wasp nest with a radiation level 10 times what is allowed by federal regulations was found inside the grounds of a sprawling Cold War-era nuclear site in South Carolina that today partly serves as a storage area for radioactive...
After an 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia, 'weather authorities leapt into action,' reports SFGate, by modeling the threat of a tsunami 'and releasing warnings and advisories to prepare their communities...' But some residents of Hawaii, Japan and North America's West...
There's now an 'influx' of startups fightging wildfires, reports the Washington Post. 'More than 100 new wildfire-related technologies have launched in the U.S. and around the world since 2023, according to Lori Moore-Merrell, who served as U.S. fire administrator during the ...
'The July 2025 results of the Steam Survey were posted a few minutes ago,' Phoronix reported last night, 'and show a healthy 0.32% increase to put the Linux gaming marketshare at 2.89%.' That's a recent high in percentage terms and while Steam saw around 3% in the early days ...
After it began 'peering into the distant universe' in 2022, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope 'has discovered a rash of 'little red dots',' reports Science magazine. There's 'hundreds of them, shining within the first billion years of the 13.8-billion-year-old universe, so...
In Shanghai at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (which ran until Tuesday), the Chinese government 'announced an international organization for AI regulation and a 13-point action plan aimed at fostering global cooperation to ensure the technology's beneficial and ...
The vehicle 'once led the Space Shuttle down the runway at Edwards Air Force Base,' The Drive reported in 2022, noting it was won in an auction for $21,061 (beating 18 other bidders). 'I just figured the NASA brand combined with Airsteam hip seemed like a can't lose...
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