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Tech manufacturers continue misleading consumers with impressive-sounding but less useful specs like milliamp-hours and megahertz, while hiding the one measurement that matters most: watts. The Verge argues that the watt provides the clearest picture of a device's true capabilities by showing how much power courses through chips and how quickly batteries drain. With elementary math, consumers could easily calculate battery life by dividing watt-hours by power consumption. The Verge: The Steam Deck gaming ha
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The monopoly superpowers have had on building the most advanced fighter jets looks to be ending with South Korea's KF-21 Boramae and Turkey's Kaan. Read more ›
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Judge Beryl Howell blocked President Donald Trump's executive order against Perkins Coie, calling the effort to target its lawyers "cringe-worthy." Read more ›
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Trump's tariffs are fueling a rise in weird new gadgets that can do more than one thing. They're especially popular among Gen Z. Read more ›
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The U.S. just signed a major deal with Ukraine, giving American companies access to critical natural resources like graphite, aluminum, and gas. Read more ›
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Donald Trump might want to take back blaming Joe Biden for the stock market. Wall Street is doing quite well again. Read more ›
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Airbnb's CFO said in a first-quarter earnings call that Canadians were traveling more domestically and visiting Mexico, Brazil, France, and Japan. Read more ›
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Nearly a dozen Social Security employees told BI what it's like to work at the agency with Trump's staff cuts and rising demand from baby boomers. Read more ›
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have had a tumultuous relationship with the royal family, particularly after their 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey. Read more ›
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For the first time in 20 years, the sandwich giant has dipped below 20,000 domestic locations, despite continuing to grow internationally. Read more ›
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China's been building artificial islands in the South China Sea over the last decade to expand its control in the area. Satellite images show its growth. Read more ›
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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. America’s federal public lands are truly unique, part of our birthright as citizens. No other country in the world has such a system. More than 640 million acres, including national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges, as well […] Read more ›
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Google has announced that Android is getting support for digital credential presentation and issuance. This is being done with native support for OpenID4VP and OpenID4VCI standards, which are being integrated within Android's Credential Manager. With the addition of this feature, users will be able to save digital credentials on their device within any app that supports the DigitalCredential API. The apps will also be able to share the information with... Read more ›
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Belichick, 73, and Hudson, 24, met on a flight in 2021. They recently attracted attention after Hudson interjected during Belichick's interview with CBS. Read more ›
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Chronic high blood sugar is linked to metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Read more ›
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Some patches for Linux 6.15-rc4 (updating the kernel driver for the Bcachefs file system) triggered some "straight-to-the-point wisdom" from Linus Torvalds about case-insensitive filesystems, reports Phoronix. Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet started the conversation, explaining how some buggy patches for their case-insensitive file and folder support were upstreamed into the Bcachefs kernel driver nearly two years ago: When I was discussing with the developer who did the implementation, I noted that... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon doesn't want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump's trade war. So the e-commerce giant will soon show how much Trump's tariffs are adding to the price of each product, according to a person familiar with the plan. The shopping site will display how much of an item's cost is derived from tariffs -- right next to the product's... Read more ›
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"A new study found that a gene recently recognized as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease is actually a cause of it," announced the University of California, San Diego, "due to its previously unknown secondary function." "Researchers at the University of California San Diego used artificial intelligence to help both unravel this mystery of Alzheimer's disease and discover a potential treatment that obstructs the gene's moonlighting role." A team led by... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, accusing the tax-exempt organization of "allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public." In the letter dated April 24, Ed Martin said he sought to determine whether the Wikimedia Foundation's behavior is in violation of its Section... Read more ›
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Nvidia publicly criticized AI startup Anthropic on Thursday over claims about Chinese smuggling tactics, just days before the Biden-era "AI Diffusion Rule" takes effect on May 15. The confrontation highlights growing tensions between AI hardware providers and model developers over export controls. "American firms should focus on innovation and rise to the challenge, rather than tell tall tales that large, heavy, and sensitive electronics are somehow smuggled in 'baby bumps'... Read more ›
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"4chan, down for more than a week after hackers got in through an insecure script that handled PDFs, is back online," notes BoingBoing. (They add that Thursday saw 4chan's first blog postin years — just the words "Testing testing 123 123...") But 4chan posted a much longer explanation on Friday," confirming their servers were compromised by a malicious PDF upload from "a hacker using a UK IP address," granting access... Read more ›
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Apple violated a court order requiring it to open up the App Store to third-party payment options and must stop charging commissions on purchases outside its software marketplace, a federal judge said in a blistering ruling that referred the company to prosecutors for a possible criminal probe. From a report: U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers sided Wednesday with "Fortnite" maker Epic Games over its allegation that the iPhone maker... Read more ›
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"The U.S. and Canadian websites for Lenovo offered U.S. $140 and CAD $211 off on the same ThinkPad X1 Carbon model when choosing any one of the Linux-based alternatives," reports It's FOSS News: This was brought to my attention thanks to a Reddit post... Others then chimed in, saying that Lenovo has been doing this since at least 2020 and that the big price difference shows how ridiculous Windows' pricing... Read more ›
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Bitcoin mining has crossed a critical economic threshold, with costs now exceeding market value for most operators. According to data cited by CoinShares, large public mining companies spend over $82,000 to produce a single Bitcoin -- nearly double last quarter's figure -- while smaller operations face even steeper costs of approximately $137,000 per coin. With Bitcoin currently trading around $94,703, the math no longer works for most miners. The economics... Read more ›
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Oracle engineers mistakenly triggered a five-day software outage at a number of Community Health Systems hospitals, causing the facilities to temporarily return to paper-based patient records. From a report: CHS told CNBC that the outage involving Oracle Health, the company's electronic health record (EHR) system, affected "several" hospitals, leading them to activate "downtime procedures." Trade publication Becker's Hospital Review reported that 45 hospitals were hit. The outage began on April... Read more ›
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