From TikTok to Huawei routers to DJI drones, rising tensions between China and the US have made Americans – and the US government – increasingly… Read More »The US Navy, NATO and NASA use the encryption chips of a shady Chinese company
Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, plans to lower the recommended age for using its Quest headset from 13 to 10, the company said… Read More »Meta to lower age for Quest VR headset users to 10 from 13
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Enlarge / Vials of COVID-19 vaccine labels with logos of pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech. A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee… Read More »Our fall COVID boosters will likely be a monovalent XBB formula
A Russian ransomware group accessed data from federal agencies, including the Department of Energy, in an attack that exploited file transfer software to steal and… Read More »US agencies broke into cyber attack by Russian Ransomware Group
Enlarge / Scholar: The 15th century ‘Heege Manuscript’ could be a rare written record of a live minstrel performance. YouTube/University of Cambridge One of many… Read More »This 15th-century manuscript mentions a Monty Python-like murder rabbit
Federal prosecutors investigating the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange said late Wednesday that they would drop, at least for now, several charges against the… Read More »The US drops new charges in the Sam Bankman-Fried case
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Quantum computers today are small in computational size – the chip in your smartphone contains billions of transistors, while the most powerful quantum computer contains… Read More »Quantum Computing Advance Begins a New Era, Says IBM
Enlarge / An Egyptian drinking vessel in the shape of the head of Bes contained, among other things, traces of Syrian rue and blue water… Read More »Ancient Egyptian followers of a deity named Bes may have used hallucinogens
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Enlarge / A photo taken of the first space prototype from Caltech’s Space Solar Power Project. SSPP In terms of legislative moments, the passage of… Read More »For the first time in decades, Congress appears interested in solar power in space
A group of 17 music publishers sued Twitter on Wednesday, accusing it of copyright infringement on about 1,700 songs, and seeking a whopping $250 million… Read More »Music publishers are suing Twitter for copyright infringement
Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado Comcast isn’t happy with new federal rules requiring it to provide broadband customers with labels with exact prices and other… Read More »Comcast is complaining to FCC that it is too difficult to list all of its monthly costs
