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An artist’s rendering of the Parker Solar Probe. | Image: NASA
NASA sent its Parker Solar Probe just 3.8 million miles from the surface of the Sun — and it survived. The probe transmitted a signal back to Earth on the night of December 26th, “indicating it’s in good health and operating normally,” according to NASA.
The mission marks the closest the Parker Solar Probe — or any human-man object at all — has ever gotten to the Sun. The probe set off on its mission on December 20th, with the closest ap
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If we can’t get to the forest, the forest must come to us, in the form of cities designed around green spaces. Read more ›
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The still-unnamed calf is already twice the size of a human infant and growing quick. Read more ›
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A string of sexual harassment and abuse allegations has implicated big names in real estate. Some say it's time to look at how the business is done. Read more ›
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The corporate transition will allow OpenAI to raise more money and finally give its board the freedom to consider what its investors want. Read more ›
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Oppo recently unveiled the Find X8 and Find X8 Pro, and is expected to announce the Find X8 Ultra and Find X8 Mini at some point early next year. Now an Oppo exec has clarified the company's upcoming launch strategy for the flagship Find line over on Weibo. According to Oppo's Zhou Yibao, there will be two launch events for the Find series each year, one in the spring, the... Read more ›
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Gaming industry figures speaking to The New York Times discuss the scaled-back success of AAA blockbusters. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Independent: The two professions associated with the lowest levels of death due to Alzheimer's disease may be surprising. Taxi and ambulance drivers were found to have the lowest proportion of deaths of more than 440 occupations that were considered in a new observation-based study from Massachusetts physicians. Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia that affects memory, thinking, and behavior. It impacts... Read more ›
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Accidental missile attacks on commercial airliners have become the leading cause of aviation fatalities in recent years (Warning: source paywalled; alternative source), driven by rising global conflicts and the proliferation of advanced antiaircraft weaponry. Despite improvements in aviation safety overall, inconsistent risk assessments, political complexities, and rapid military escalations make protecting civilian flights in conflict zones increasingly difficult. The Wall Street Journal reports: The crash Read more ›
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OpenAI has proposed restructuring its for-profit wing as a PBC to attract investors while maintaining the non-profit; in line with the mission. Read more ›
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Even though iOS 18.1 and iOS 18.2 added multiple Apple Intelligence features like Image Playground, Genmoji, Writing Tools, and more, there are still new Apple Intelligence capabilities that we're waiting on. Apple has at least one more major Apple Intelligence update coming in 2025, and the functionality that we're expecting is outlined below. Priority Notifications Notification summaries are already available on devices that support Apple Intelligence, but in a future... Read more ›
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Laura Loomer and other MAGA faithful who are critical of Musk have lost their verification checkmarks. Read more ›
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The best live streaming services to watch the BYU vs. Colorado college football game without cable. Read more ›
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Apple is on the brink of becoming the first company in history to surpass a $4 trillion market valuation, Fortune reports. Apple's stock (AAPL) has nearly risen 40% in 2024. Before the markets opened on December 27, Apple's market capitalization stood at $3.92 trillion, leaving the company just a modest surge in stock value away from the unprecedented milestone. The growth is said to have been fueled largely by optimism... Read more ›
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The RTX 5090 may come with more power and power stages than any gaming GPU before it, as the GPU is rumored to use 29 VRMs. Read more ›
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Hanukkah is one of the most famous holidays in the Jewish calendar, but here are facts about the Festival of Lights that you may not have known. Read more ›
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jjslash shares a report from TechSpot: A Valve employee recently provided PC Gamer with a rough calculation of the company's per-employee income, revealing that Valve generates more money per person than several of the world's largest companies. While the data is a few years old and doesn't account for some significant recent trends in the tech sector, Valve's ranking in this metric likely hasn't shifted much over that time. Exact... Read more ›
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Santa Clarita offers a variety of internet options, from fiber to fixed wireless. CNET has picked out the top providers to help you find the best match for your needs. Read more ›
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The Verge
The Verge X has substantially raised the price of its top-tier user subscription in multiple regions to help bolster the platform’s creator payouts. The increase for Premium Plus came into effect on December 21st according to X, raising prices in the US from $16 per month to $22, or from $168 to $229 for annual subscriptions. Many European countries like France, Germany, and Spain are impacted by a similar increase,... Read more ›
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Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images Honda and Nissan have announced plans to merge as the Japanese automakers struggle with competition from rival brands in the electric vehicle market. The two companies confirmed on Monday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding that would create the third largest car maker by sales, behind Toyota and Volkswagen. Nissan alliance member Mitsubishi Motors is also in talks with Honda and... 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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The PayPal Honey browser extension is, in theory, a handy way to find better deals on products while you’re shopping online. But in a video published this weekend, YouTuber MegaLag claims the extension is a “scam” and that Honey has been “stealing money from influencers, including the very ones they paid to promote their product.” Honey works by popping up an offer to find coupon codes for you while you’re... Read more ›
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A Google Nest doorbell camera. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Apple is working on a new smart doorbell camera that uses Face ID to unlock your door, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. The camera could be released by the end of 2025 “at the soonest,” Gurman writes. The lock would work just like your iPhone, automatically unlocking your door when you... Read more ›
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Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images Netflix says it had a big audience for its live NFL games on Christmas Day, with Nielsen ratings designating them “the most-streamed NFL games in US history.” The Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers notched a 24.1M AMA (average minute audience), while the Houston Texans and Baltimore Ravens hit 24.3M AMA, totaling nearly 65 million total viewers. Though Netflix buckled under the weight of... Read more ›
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Image: Asus Asus has announced the Asus NUC 14 Pro AI, the first Copilot Plus-capable AI mini PC that crams an Intel Core Ultra 9 processor into a form factor resembling a black M4 Mac Mini. First introduced at IFA in September, Asus is providing a little more detail about the mini PC’s specs than it did before, but still isn’t saying it will become available or how much it... Read more ›
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Image: Asus Asus is planning to launch a new Rog Strix laptop at CES on January 6th, 2025, the company confirmed in a post spotted by VideoCardz. The short teaser shared by Asus shows a laptop with RGB lighting that wraps all the way around the bottom of the device, likely making for an even more colorful underglow when compared to previous generations. Though Asus doesn’t say which Rog Strix... Read more ›
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An Ioniq 5 using a CCS to NACS adapter to charge at a Supercharger. | Image: Hyundai Hyundai announced it will start distributing free CCS to Tesla NACS adapters to its EV customers in the first quarter of 2025. The adapters will enable vehicles such as the Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6 to connect to “20,000-plus” Tesla Supercharger stations. The free adapter is available to those who purchased or leased... Read more ›
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Performance upgrades and screen improvements make the new Paperwhite’s minor updates feel more substantial. Three years have passed since Amazon last updated its flagship e-reader, and while this year’s Kindle lineup seemed focused on Amazon’s first color offering, the Paperwhite still got some welcome improvements. With a higher-contrast screen and snappier performance, the 12th-generation Kindle Paperwhite remains the best e-reader on the market. I tested the $199.99 Kindle Paperwhite Signature... Read more ›
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