VW will offer “highly competitive” leases on ID.4 as sales restart
Last September, faulty door handle hardware caused Volkswagen to take the rather drastic steps of...
January 2025
Instagram users discover old AI-powered “characters,” instantly revile them
A little over a year ago, Meta created Facebook and Instagram profiles for “28 AIs...
Marvel Rivals lifts 100-year “cheating” bans on Mac and Steam Deck players
With Valve’s impressive work on the Proton tool for Linux and the Mac’s Game Porting...
Rumors say next-gen RTX 50 GPUs will come with big jumps in power requirements
Nvidia is reportedly gearing up to launch the first few cards in its RTX 50-series...
The 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid: A refreshing alternative to a crossover
When Honda gave the 11th-generation Civic Hatchback a refresh late last year, among the changes...
Delve into the physics of the Hula-Hoop
High-speed video of experiments on a robotic hula hooper, whose hourglass form holds the hoop...
Anthropic gives court authority to intervene if chatbot spits out song lyrics
On Thursday, music publishers got a small win in a copyright fight alleging that Anthropic’s...
Elon Musk: “We’re going straight to Mars. The Moon is a distraction.”
Although SpaceX founder Elon Musk is known for outspokenness and controversial comments on his social...
Time to check if you ran any of these 33 malicious Chrome extensions
As many of us celebrated the year-end holidays, a small group of researchers worked overtime...
New findings get us closer to knowing what causes radio bursts
When fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first detected in 2007, they were a complete enigma....
Appeals court blocks FCC’s efforts to bring back net neutrality rules
On Thursday, a three-judge panel struck down net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission...
Is 2025 finally the real year of “Half-Life 3 confirmed”?
The more than two decades since Half-Life 2‘s release have been filled with plenty of...
USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect
“It’s time for THE charger,” the European Commission posted to X on December 28, 2024....
Someone made a CAPTCHA where you play Doom on Nightmare difficulty
People have been complaining for a while that passing a CAPTCHA is too difficult, but...
It’s January, which means another batch of copyrighted work is now public domain
It’s January, and for people in the US, that means the same thing it’s meant...