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At least one dead as floods hit California, crews work to rescue stranded drivers

Getty Images While many companies now provide access to general-purpose quantum computers, they are not currently used to solve real-world problems because they are hampered… Read More »What are companies doing with D-Wave’s quantum hardware?

New York Governor Kathy Hochul passed the Digital Fair Repair Act into law, months after it passed both chambers of the state legislature by overwhelming… Read More »New York Governor signs last-minute amended law on reparations

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The death toll in the massive floods that devastated parts of the Philippines over the Christmas weekend has risen to 51,… Read More »Flooding in the Philippines leaves 51 dead and more than a dozen missing

Enlarge / “I’m spying with my dolphin eye… something that looks like prey!” There’s rarely time to write about every cool science story that comes… Read More »Up close and personal: POV of dolphins captured on camera while chasing tasty fish

Actor Jeremy Renner is in “critical but stable” condition after injuries he sustained from what his rep described as a “weather-related incident while snowploughing” on… Read More »Marvel actor Jeremy Renner in ‘critical but stable’ condition after accident

WASHINGTON — Senior lawmakers said they would investigate the government’s purchase and use of powerful spyware by two Israeli hacking firms as Congress passed a… Read More »Lawmakers are signaling investigations into the US government’s use of foreign spyware

A rescue team dog, like this one, found the skier more than two hours after the avalanche.AAron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images A… Read More »A Colorado backcountry skier freed himself after an avalanche and tried to save his son. After a two-hour search, his son was found dead.

Enlarge / Rain and rapidly melting snow caused the Yellowstone River and nearby streams to burst their banks in June 2022. The year 2022 will… Read More »The climate disasters in the US in 2022, from storms and floods to heat waves and droughts

In September, chip giant Intel gathered officials on a plot of land near Columbus, Ohio, where it pledged to invest at least $20 billion in… Read More »US is pouring money into chips, but even high spending has limits

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images In 2022, film buffs weary of two years of a raging pandemic cautiously began to dip their toes back into… Read More »Ars Technica’s Favorite Movies in 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Commonwealth of Independent States Summit in Astana, Kazakhstan on October 14, 2022.Contributor/Getty Images The Russian Telegram account General SVR… Read More »Did Putin really shit himself? How an influential Telegram account spreads wild, unproven claims about the Kremlin’s inner workings

One more orbit around the sun and here we are again: back where we started but spinning—altered, perhaps deranged. Henry Segerman, a British-American mathematician and… Read More »A new puzzle turns the Earth into a Rubik’s cube, only more complex