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Monday June 24, 2019. 08:12 PM
I apologize for the use of Audi's stock images, but it rained a lot during my time with the A7 and none of the pictures I took were good enough to use. [credit: Audi ] High expectations can be a killer. We see this all the time—the let-down sequel to a great movie or...
A major telephone outage hit the Netherlands on Monday, taking down the country's emergency number and leaving many businesses and municipalities unreachable by phone. From a report: Police sent officers onto the streets so that people could approach them for emergency help...
Enlarge / An effective wiper of sorts. (credit: Getty Images) With tensions between the US and Iran on the rise following the downing of a US military drone last week, the director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is...
Al Capone’s just met a girl named Maria. Problem is, he hasn’t met her lover yet.Or potential problem, I should say. So far, Maria’s been a fine addition to our fledgling criminal empire. She’s handy (enough) with a gun, and we’re in no position to turn down the...
Enlarge (credit: By Tiago Falótico - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60386655) The archaeological record of human tools use dates back about 2.5 million years, and archaeologists use changes in stone tool technology to trace changes...
Insurers and family fling sueballs at Cupertino giant Apple is being sued Stateside over allegations that a faulty iPad battery caused a fire which resulted in a New Jersey man's death.…
Sen. Bernie Sanders announced a plan on Monday to erase the country's $1.6 trillion outstanding student loan tab, intensifying the higher education policy debate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. From a report: The Democratic presidential candidate's legislation...
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | RapidEye) The former head of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC) was sentenced to five years in prison for defrauding investors. Elizabeth Ann Pierce was CEO of Quintillion, an Alaskan telecom company, when...
The Trump administration is examining whether to require that next-generation 5G cellular equipment used in the U.S. be designed and manufactured outside China [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source], WSJ reports, citing people familiar with the...
Enlarge (credit: Fuct) Federal law prohibits the registration of trademarks that are 'immoral or scandalous.' At least it did until today, when the Supreme Court held that the requirement violated the First Amendment. The case focused on artist and entrepreneur Erik...
Enlarge / (Photo by TF-Images/TF-Images via Getty Images) (credit: getty images) Over the weekend, Germany's auto regulator told Daimler that it would have to recall 42,000 Mercedes-Benz diesel vehicles after the group discovered illegal software on the cars that would...
The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has launched. It's a pretty big upgrade from the Raspberry Pi 3, with the company claiming that the device can provide 'desktop performance comparable to entry-level x86 PC systems.' OK... but how does it perform as a server? Individually, the...
The Curiosity mission's scientists picked up the signal this week, and are seeking additional readings from the red planet. From a report: Mars, it appears, is belching a large amount of a gas that could be a sign of microbes living on the planet today. [Editor's note: the...
Small machines with feeble CPUs are becoming interesting again In an act of technological voodoo, bare metal cloud provider Packet has resurrected the IT trend that was last in the headlines circa 2015 - the microserver.…
Enlarge / Last Defender standing: Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) ponders what it means to be a hero in the final season. (credit: YouTube/Netflix) Jessica Jones makes its final bow with an imperfect but ultimately powerful and thought-provoking third season. The series...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Stewart Butterfield loved the game, but not enough people agreed with him. He spent two years and raised roughly $11 million to build an online adventure game called Glitch that featured garrulous, blue-headed creatures and milk-drunk...
Apple is tipped to be releasing a new 16-inch MacBook Pro later this year, but it might cost way more than the current model.
Apple is tipped to be releasing a new 16-inch MacBook Pro later this year, but it might cost way more than the current model.
Enlarge / Diversion canals channel water into earth-bottomed infiltration canals like this one, where water can begin to soak into the ground on its way to a pond or basin. (credit: Musuq Briceño, CONDESAN, 2012.) Rain seldom falls on the desert lowlands of coastal Peru,...
A trio of heavy lifters in rocket boffinry Roundup There was European joy, Russian frustration and a bit of a tease from the Falcon Heavy last week. And while the Pi 4 is the new shiny, spare a thought for the computers on the ISS.…
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