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Dino Dating Service Like rocks, egg shells can trap isotopes, allowing us to use them to date samples. When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not...

Flunking the Test A new book argues that tests might reshape human diversity even if they don’t work. Daphne O. Martschenko and Sam Trejo both want to make the...

One of the US government’s top scientific research labshttps://www.wired.com/story/the-national-institute-of-standards-and-technology-braces-for-mass-firings/ i...

Fueling Test Overview A second fueling test on NASA’s Space Launch System SLS rocket concluded Thursday night, giving senior managers enough confidence to move...

Microsoft Executive Vice President for Gaming Phil Spencer announced he will retire after 38 years at Microsoft and 12 years leading the company’s video‑game ef...

> “We must safeguard America’s national security first, because all of our priorities depend on it. When hostile actors control critical inputs, they weaken our...

Discord’s Age‑Verification Backlash Shortly after Discord announced that all users would be defaulted to teen experiences until their ages are verified, the pl...

Shift Away from First-Party VR Some of the changes—like the removal of individual worlds from the VR store—are presented by the company as efforts to make the...

“Malpractice” Insiders report that, as NIH director, Bhattacharya delegates most of his responsibilities for running the $47 billion agency to two top official...

Insiders report that, as NIH director, Bhattacharya delegates most of his responsibilities for running the $47 billion agency to two top officials. Instead of a...

Background The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial...

Background For a long time, PC gamers have been used to the Final Fantasy series treating their platform as somewhat secondary to the game’s core console versi...

> Spoilers for the first two seasons Background The series is set nearly 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, when dragons still roamed Westeros. It...

Wireless Multiplayer in GBA Pokémon The multiplayer Switch Online Game Boy Advance games all support wireless multiplayer in place of physical Game Link Cables...

Supreme Court blocks Trump's emergency tariffs The Supreme Court ruledhttps://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1287_4gcj.pdf Friday that former President...

Pricing Updates Last night Tesla announced significant cuts to Cybertruck pricing to boost sales. - The tri‑motor “Cyberbeast” is now $15,000 cheaper, priced a...

Incident Overview Amazon stated that both recent disruptions were caused by user error, not by AI. The company emphasized that it has not seen evidence that mi...

Microsoft’s Harry Potter Dataset Controversy Summary – After a backlash on Hacker News, Microsoft removed a blog post that appeared to encourage developers to...

Allegations According to the lawsuit, by April 2025 “ChatGPT began to tell Darian that he was meant for greatness. That it was his destiny, and that he would b...

Still, after astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams eventually docked at the station, Boeing officials declared success. “We accomplished a lot, and really...

Hands‑on > Technology is a double‑edged sword in the $399 Rubik’s Cube‑inspired toy. !Rubik's WOWCube playing the Rubik's Cube puzzlehttps://cdn.arstechnica.net...

Bacon briefcase Everyone’s trying to get mileage as F1 undergoes huge technical changes. !Formula 1 driver Isack Hadjar of Oracle Red Bull Racing participates...

Overview Google has released a new version of its flagship AI model, Gemini 3.1 Pro, now available in preview for developers and consumers. The update follows...

Policy at Massive > “Our policy is, ‘mitigate first, investigate second’ when we come across anything that could be harmful to our company, users, or clients,”...