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The perfect commuter bike? Velotric's Discover 3 makes its case.

A customized mid-motor and Shimano's new Cues components are a winning combination.

John Timmer 3 months ago

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Claude Code's product lead talks usage limits, transparency, and the "lean harness"

"We have no grand plan," says Anthropic's Cat Wu—but that's by design.

Samuel Axon 3 months ago

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Men use "vocal fry" more than women, counter to stereotype

Study suggests "the bias is real but socially constructed, rather than grounded in how women actually sound."

Jennifer Ouellette 3 months ago

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Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes

One little mystery—solved.

Nate Anderson 3 months ago

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Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves

People confide almost everything to their phones.

Nate Anderson 3 months ago

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Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers

Town’s 49,000 California residents compete with Nevada data centers for energy.

Jeremy Hsu 3 months ago

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AMD promises to bring improved, hardware-backed FSR 4 upscaling to older Radeon GPUs

FSR 4.1 running on RDNA3 or RDNA2 GPUs may take a bigger performance hit.

Andrew Cunningham 3 months ago

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Judge probes whether Musk settlement with Trump admin is tainted by corruption

Trump admin wants to let Musk pay $1.5M fine to settle $150 million Twitter suit.

Jon Brodkin 3 months ago

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Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections

It's not entirely clear how the exploit works. Microsoft says it's investigating.

Dan Goodin 3 months ago

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Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds

Made-up therapy referrals, incorrect prescriptions among the common mistakes.

Kyle Orland 3 months ago

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Vaporware or not? Aptera assembles its first five validation models.

The three-wheel, two-seat EV has been in development since 2006.

Jonathan M. Gitlin 3 months ago

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Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day

Layoffs are "not a savings-driven resutrcture," CFO says.

Scharon Harding 3 months ago

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Forecasters predict wildfires, floods, severe heatwaves from incoming El Niño

Ocean heat plus human-caused global warming is a grim recipe for deadly climate extremes.

Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News 3 months ago

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Motorola Razr Fold review: Fits neatly in your pocket but not your budget

The Razr Fold has a lot going for it, but like all foldables, it's wildly expensive.

Ryan Whitwam 3 months ago

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Desperate Trump taps "Tim Apple," Jensen Huang, Elon Musk to attend Xi summit

Xi meeting may force Trump to pivot on semiconductor tariffs and Taiwan.

Ashley Belanger 3 months ago

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Solar drone with jumbo jet wingspan broke a flight record—then it crashed

The final flight and complex legacy of a pioneering solar-powered aircraft.

Jeremy Hsu 3 months ago

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FCC angers small carriers by helping AT&T and Starlink buy EchoStar spectrum

Approval is no surprise after FCC chair pressured EchoStar to sell licenses.

Jon Brodkin 3 months ago

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Protein in Homo erectus teeth suggests Denisovans gave us some of their DNA

Distinct form of tooth protein in Homo erectus shows up in Denisovans—and us.

John Timmer 3 months ago

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Foiled plot tried to sneak 49 lbs of cocaine into Australia via Xerox printers

The drugs had an estimated worth of over $9 million USD.

Scharon Harding 3 months ago

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AI invades Princeton, where 30% of students cheat—but peers won't snitch

Old "honor code" systems are under strain.

Nate Anderson 3 months ago

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The physics of how Olympic weightlifters exploit barbell's "whip"

The type of bar matters when it comes to how it bends and recoils, but why is still a mystery.

Jennifer Ouellette 3 months ago

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NASA provides some details about Artemis III, but hard decisions remain

"NASA also is defining the concept of operations for the mission."

Eric Berger 3 months ago

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A new US military wargame series began by simulating a nuclear weapon in orbit

US officials have said a nuclear detonation would render portions of low-Earth orbit useless for up to a year.

Stephen Clark 3 months ago

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Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago

“Every time I go to the dentist, I think about that guy,” researcher says.

Kiona N. Smith 3 months ago

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