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Sunday January 19, 2025. 02:34 AM
Chinese social-networking site RedNote became the #1 most-downloaded app in America, reports the Associated Press, with some new users considering it a way to protest America's possible TikTok ban. So what happened next? They were met with surprise, curiosity and in-jokes on ...
The ratio of vacant U.S. jobs to jobless workers 'has fallen from a record of 2 in 2022 to 1.1 in November,' reports the Wall Street Journal — which adds that 'the balance of power between employers and employees has shifted as the labor market has gone from white-hot to...
Saturday January 18, 2025. 11:18 PM
The BBC brings news from the Baltic Sea. After critical undersea cables were damaged or severed last year, 'NATO has launched a new mission to increase the surveillance of ships...' Undersea infrastructure is essential not only for electricity supply but also because more...
A new law is being considered by New York's state legislature, reports a local news outlet. 'if passed, will require anyone buying a 3D printer to pass a background check. If you can't legally own a firearm, you won't be able to buy one of these printers...' It is illegal to ...
A county transit police detective fed a poor-quality image to an AI-powered facial recognition program, remembers the Washington Post, leading to the arrest of 'Christopher Gatlin, a 29-year-old father of four who had no apparent ties to the crime scene nor a history of...
America's Federal Trade Commission has been 'raising antitrust concerns' about them for years, reports NBC News. The latest? America's three largest drug middlemen 'inflated the costs of numerous life-saving medications by billions of dollars over the past few years, the FTC ...
'The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth,' writes the Washington Post. 'But first it has to be put together, piece by piece, in a cavernous chamber at the NASA Goddard Space...
'Scientists have just resurrected 'ELIZA,' the world's first chatbot, from long-lost computer code,' reports LiveScience, 'and it still works extremely well.' (Click in the vintage black-and-green rectangle for a blinking-cursor prompt...) Using dusty printouts from MIT...
From the New York Post: Generation Z's recent foray into the corporate world has been an eye-popping escapade plagued by their 'annoying' workplace habits and helicopter parents accompanying them on interviews. Now, newcomers to the 9-to-5 grind are inflicting a fresh new...
Security feature widens out to more Windows 11 users, including those at home Microsoft is trying a new way of enabling Administrator Protection in Windows 11. The latest Windows Insider Canary build adds a setting that removes the requirement for IT admins to activate the...
The food-beauty crossover is suddenly everywhere. It is the allure of nostalgia, the pull of meme culture, and the sticky-sweet scent of capitalism wafting through the air—and we are eating it up.
This high-end OLED comes with wireless connectivity for clean lines in fancy rooms.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd, who stepped down as CEO at the beginning of 2024, is returning to the post in mid-March. Former Slack CEO Lidiane Jones, who succeeded Herd, has resigned for 'personal...
Firefighting planes are dumping water from the ocean on the Los Angeles fires, but using saltwater is typically a last resort.
Gaia makes its final science observation The European Space Agency's (ESA) Milky Way mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion observations over the past decade.…
Essential oils, detox regimens, parasite cleanses, and raw milk have entered the disaster economy.
If you missed the recent live, subscriber-only Q&A about money and AI scams with WIRED’s advice columnist Reece Rogers, you can watch the replay here.
Plus: New details emerge about China’s cyber espionage against the US, the FBI remotely uninstalls malware on 4,200 US devices, and victims of the PowerSchool edtech breach reveal what hackers stole.
Nintendo released Donkey Kong Country Returns HD earlier this week, with fans noticing that the original team members at Retro are not individually credited in the updated version. 'Instead, the credits state that it was 'based on the work' of Retro Studios, while the team...
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