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Holiday season 2024 solidified it: we really need to stop going along with the lie that streaming is better than physical media. Read more ›
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CEO Tony Vinciquerra, who's stepping down January 2, has some blame to lay for the failure of Kraven the Hunter and others. Read more ›
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The asking price — $200 million for the land alone — is more than what Bezos paid for any of his three properties on the island. Read more ›
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America loves jocks, and that's why we don't have any good engineers... or something. Read more ›
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An electricity cable in the Gulf of Finland was disconnected earlier this week. Read more ›
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Dave Calhoun was Boeing's CEO from January 2020 to July 2024. Calhoun was trained as an accountant. His successor, Kelly Ortberg, is an engineer. Read more ›
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Image: The Verge ChatGPT isn’t working for many users right now. With numerous reports on social media, we also confirmed that the chatbot loads but isn’t able to respond to queries, while others are seeing an “internal server error” message. It looks like the outage started around 1:30PM ET, which is when reports began to spike on Down Detector. At around 2PM ET, OpenAI posted an update to its status... Read more ›
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Beyoncé's 12-minute Christmas halftime performance on Netflix paid homage to Texas and Mexican culture. Read more ›
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An Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38. The airline's chief hailed the pilots' heroism after 29 passengers survived. Read more ›
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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released what appears to be one of the most powerful open-source language models to date, trained at a cost of just $5.5 million using restricted Nvidia H800 GPUs. The 671-billion-parameter DeepSeek V3, released this week under a permissive commercial license, outperformed both open and closed-source AI models in internal benchmarks, including Meta's Llama 3.1 and OpenAI's GPT-4 on coding tasks. The model was trained on... Read more ›
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Here are some hints -- and the answers -- for the Dec. 27 Strands puzzle, No. 299. Read more ›
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The cat death appears to be the first case of H5N1 in the U.S. traced to raw pet food. Read more ›
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Finnish authorities were investigating the cutting of an undersea power cable in the Baltic Sea on Thursday. Read more ›
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The Redmi Turbo 4 is launching early in January as the first phone using MediaTek's newly unveiled Dimensity 8400 SoC. This brings an all big core CPU design to the upper-midrange for the first time, which is quite an exciting development if you ask us. With that in mind, you may have been wondering just what to expect from this chip in terms of performance. While benchmarks aren't necessarily indicators... Read more ›
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"Squid Game" is set to return next year following the release of season two. Here's what we know so far about the third and final season. Read more ›
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NASA has been celebrating the photographic work of astronaut Matthew Dominick, who enjoyed a six-month stay aboard the space station in 2024. Read more ›
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There have been over 32,000 cases of whooping cough this year, CDC data shows—the highest toll seen in a decade. Read more ›
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We finally have a real definition of the elusive "AGI." Read more ›
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Thanks to a bunch of game-makers who were still teens when Toontown Online disappeared, the beloved online world lives on as Toontown Rewritten. Read more ›
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The hype is fading, and people are asking what generative artificial intelligence is really good for. So far, no one has a decent answer. Read more ›
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The gap between the ultra-rich minority and the vast majority has never been greater. But a wave of activist millionaires is asking for higher taxes. Read more ›
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Microbes found in green spaces can transfer into your body, increasing bacterial diversity and potentially boosting the strength of the immune system. Read more ›
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Plagued by delays, tied to a rival’s electric platform, yet somehow still being clever and innovative, Ford’s European EV experiment embodies the automaker’s failure to commit to electric cars. Read more ›
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AI voice cloning and deepfakes are supercharging scams. One method to protect your loved ones and yourself is to create secret code words to verify someone’s identity in real time. Read more ›
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The first medical treatment to use Crispr gene editing has been on the market for a year. Its complexity means few patients in the US have received it yet. Read more ›
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Yes, the weight distribution on an aircraft really does affect how well it flies. Our physics guy explains. Read more ›
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Suddenly, every possible dating and hookup app for every possible scenario exists—AI girlfriends, kink-positive polyamory, gay cruising. Why does it feel like none of them are the answer? Read more ›
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Despite Q's long silence, QAnon beliefs have never been more prevalent—and as Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House, excitement among the faithful is at an all-time high. Read more ›
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