New year, same streaming headaches: Netflix raises prices by up to 16 percent
Today Netflix, the biggest streaming service based on subscriber count, announced that it will increase…
RIP EA’s Origin launcher: We knew ye all too well, unfortunately
After 14 years, EA will retire its controversial Origin game distribution app for Windows, the…
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Apple Intelligence, previously opt-in by default, enabled automatically in iOS 18.3
Apple has sent out release candidate builds of the upcoming iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and…
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Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download
Unlike conventional LLMs, these SR models take extra time to produce responses, and this extra…
Satellite firm bucks miniaturization trend, aims to build big for big rockets
Although the price of this satellite bus is proprietary, various estimates place the cost at…
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How to get a perfect salt ring deposit in your pasta pot
Deposit morphologies for a settling particle. When increasing either the injection volume or the settling…
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Trump issues flurry of orders on TikTok, DOGE, social media, AI, and energy
Trump said in November that DOGE "will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle…
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Southern California wildfires likely outpace ability of wildlife to adapt
P-64, an adult male mountain lion, travels through a tunnel under Highway 101, heading south…
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Fuel efficiency, EVs, and charger funding all cut by Trump’s orders
US President Donald Trump swore his oath of office on Monday, ascending yet again to…
Trump orders US withdrawal from the World Health Organization
The United States noticed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020 due…