Facebook, Instagram, and Threads were all down

Red Sea cables have been damaged, disrupting internet traffic

Google Pauses Gemini’s Image Generator After It Was Accused of Being Racist Against White People

Impressive Capacity and Extended Lifespan – Scientists Have Invented Recyclable “Water Batteries” That Won’t Catch Fire

Peering through Lenovo’s transparent laptop into a sci-fi future

Moon Lander Is Lying on Its Side but Still Functional, Officials Say

Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”

Spotify HiFi is still MIA after three years, and now so is my subscription

Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data

Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT

Lawyers who voided Elon Musk's pay as excessive want $6 billion fee

A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months

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Bitcoin regains $1 trillion market cap as the cryptocurrency hits over two-year high

$13M and 3 years later, Superlist hopes to become a decacorn. But will it?

DuckDuckGo’s privacy browser adds built-in password syncing

Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private

Wyze outage led to the cameras of 13,000 customers being shown to other users

Feds Want to Ban the World’s Cutest Hacking Device. Experts Say It's a ‘Scapegoat’

OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model

How companies are using AI to spy on Slack

Airbnb plans to use AI, including its GamePlanner acquisition, to create the ‘ultimate concierge’

ChatGPT Went Berserk, Giving Nonsensical Responses All Night

Disney Outsourcing Blu-Ray, DVD Business to Sony

Walmart to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3 billion in move to grow its ad business

Elon Musk Says Neuralink's First Patient Can Move a Computer Mouse With Their Thoughts

Lab-grown ‘beef rice’ could offer more sustainable protein source, say creators

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Snap shares drop 30% after company's revenue miss and weak guidance

Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say

Waymo driverless car set on fire, destroyed by San Francisco crowd

Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”

Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire

Exclusive: Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy

Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo

Notion acquires privacy-focused productivity platform Skiff

OpenAI-buddy Brilliant Labs unveils eyeglasses with ‘AI superpowers’

Disney to take $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games, work with Fortnite maker on new content

Microsoft prepares to take Xbox everywhere

Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses

Elon Musk started buying Twitter shares soon after Parag Agrawal refused to ban an account tracking his private jet, book says

Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair

Fighting the smartphone ‘invasion’: the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public

New York has ended its trial of a 400-pound security robot in the Times Square subway station

Wilson Airless Gen1 Basketball

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Snap shares drop 30% after company's revenue miss and weak guidance

Google Maps is getting a major AI upgrade — what you need to know

Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’

Mozilla Monitor’s new service removes your personal info from data broker sites automatically

Researchers achieve super-safe, ultrafast Li-ion battery charging

Apple Is Forcing Users Who Forgot the Password to Their $3,500 Vision Pro to Reset It In-Store

Don't wear an Apple Vision Pro while driving, Pete Buttigieg says 

Sorting recycling is hard. AI could help.

Meta says you better disclose your AI fakes or it might just pull them

Bluesky is ditching its waitlist and is now open to everyone

Amazon’s new AWS charge for using IPv4 is expected to rake in up to $1B per year — change should speed IPv6 adoption

Adam Neumann is trying to buy back WeWork

Your Phone Is Not Listening to You

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Nintendo’s Next Switch Coming This Year With LCD, Omdia Says

Games are helping the New York Times thrive amid media chaos

Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox

26 billion private records leaked in 'mother of all breaches’

Amazon’s Ring will stop allowing police to request doorbell video footage from users

Amazon Drops $1.4 Billion iRobot Deal; Vacuum Maker Cuts Jobs

I gave Telly my data and privacy for a free TV - and I don't regret it

Fake Explicit Taylor Swift Images Swamp Social Media

This AI app can replace anything in a photo and it is terrifying

ElevenLabs reportedly banned the account that deepfaked Biden's voice with its AI tools

Etsy launches ‘Gift Mode,’ a new AI-powered feature that generates 200+ gift guides

British zoo has new plan to rehabilitate its potty-mouthed parrots

The Future of Sustainable Energy? Scientists Create First-Ever Battery Using Hemoglobin 

Elon Musk’s Neuralink implants brain tech in human patient for the first time

Disney Unveils the HoloTile Floor, Inching Us Closer to a Real-Life Holodeck

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Tesla charging woes in the Arctic cold snap blamed on inadequate battery preconditioning

Result of Cybertruck's 'carrot test' is leaving people concerned for their safety

Harvard Claims 'Holy Grail' EV Battery Breakthrough. But When Will We See It?

The US Postal Service’s new EV chargers are here

Kitepower's Wind Energy System Fits in a Shipping Container

Sam Altman was asked what humans would still do better than AI—he didn’t have a convincing answer

Great, AI Can Forge Your Handwriting Now and I'm Concerned!

Scientists use TV tech to test light-powered internet connections that can be 100 times faster than Wi-Fi

Drinking This Carbon Monoxide-Infused Foam Supercharges Cancer Therapy in Mice

Apple might have sold up to 180,000 Vision Pro headsets over pre-order weekend

Applebee's $200 date night pass sold out in one minute

Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations

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I demoed Bluetooth's Auracast, and its going to be a big deal. Here’s Why

What if You Never Had to Charge Your Gadgets Again?

Tesla Optimus robot can't build cars yet, but it is folding clothes

Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold: 'A bunch of dead robots out here'

John Deere, Meet Elon Musk: SpaceX Satellites to Link Farm Giant’s Equipment

Mr. Beast Drops His First Video On Elon Musk's 'X,' Gets A Whopping 23 Million Views In Just 6 Hours

Are fingerprints unique? Not really, AI-based study says

A woman bought a vintage dress at an antique store. It had a secret pocket with a mysterious note

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Chipotle and Strava team up to help fans achieve wellness goals all January

Twilio is killing off the Authy desktop app, but Mac users have a work-around

Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit

YouTube demonetizes public domain 'Steamboat Willie' video after copyright claim

SpaceX launches first satellites for cell phone service in dead zones

FCC plans shutdown of Affordable Connectivity Program as GOP withholds funding

U.S. Moves Closer to Filing Sweeping Antitrust Case Against Apple

Apple is sending out payments to iPhone owners impacted by "batterygate." Here's what they are getting.

The Apple Vision Pro will launch in February

Samsung Music Frame hands-on: A speaker to match your Frame TV 

Scientists develop world’s first graphene semiconductor in revolutionary computing breakthrough

New battery material that uses less lithium found in AI-powered search

Solid-state battery retains 95% capacity over 1,000 charge cycles in VW tests that could resurrect the used EV market

Rental giant Hertz dumps EVs, including Teslas, for gas cars

Rabbit’s Little Walkie-Talkie Learns Tasks That Stump Siri and Alexa

Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for ‘enriching conversations’

ChatGPT will lie, cheat and use insider trading when under pressure to make money, research shows

Mouse secretly filmed tidying man’s shed every night

The internet is convinced aliens appeared at a mall in Miami

When will you die? Meet the 'doom calculator,' an artificial intelligence algorithm

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Google Maps is ditching cloud-based location history for a more private solution

Google Just Killed Warrants That Give Police Access To Location Data

Intel’s Core Ultra CPUs are here — and they all come with silicon dedicated to AI

Apple announces new 'contingent pricing' feature for App Store subscriptions

First 150 kWh semi solid-state battery range test clocks 653 miles on a charge as it streamed live from NIO ET7

These hot rocks can glow brighter than the sun. They could also help spell the end of fossil fuels

New technology can rejuvenate and extend the life of old solar panels

What Would Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount Merger Mean for Cable TV? Some Networks Would Likely Be Sold Off

Atlanta suburb becomes first to test underground consumer delivery system

Bird, an Electric Scooter Company, Files for Bankruptcy

Rite Aid’s ‘reckless’ use of facial recognition got it banned from using the technology in stores for five years

Beeper is giving up on its iMessage dream

How to stop Dropbox from sharing your personal files with OpenAI

Apple has halted Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 online sales

Electro-Cooling Material Makes Solid-State Fridge Viable

Nasa mission lines up to 'touch the Sun'

AI Discovers First New Antibiotic in Over 60 Years

Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability

YouTuber MrBeast Says NO To Elon Musk’s Invite To Post On X: ‘My Videos Cost millions...'

The McCallisters Are One Percenters; Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Determines Wealth of ‘Home Alone’ Family

Early Mickey Mouse Now Belongs To Everyone—So Of Course There's a Meme Token

Japan scientists create world's 1st mental images with AI tech

Scientists say they conversed with a whale. It may be practice for aliens

34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen”

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How Mark Cuban forced the biggest US pharmacy to upend its business

Engineers Shatter Fiber Optic Speed Record at 22.9 Petabits Per Second

Google Fiber is offering early access to $250 per month 20-gig service

OLED breakthrough could mean cheaper TVs

Bose discontinues its Frames line of smart glasses.

Tesla again threatens to sue Cybertruck buyers who try to resell the cars

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There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works

Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android

Some Android phones can automatically send medical data during 911 calls

Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4

Google’s best Gemini AI demo video was fabricated

Federal jury says Google’s app store violated antitrust law 

Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight

The lucky break behind the first CRISPR treatment

Quick as a Fox: Firefox keeps getting faster

Spotify to lay off 17 percent of its workforce in latest round of job cuts

UK accuses Meta of empowering child sexual abusers with encryption rollout

PreCheck Members Can Soon Breeze Through TSA Security Lines at Self-Service Screening in Las Vegas

Lost in space no more: missing tomato found in space station after eight months

Here’s what intentionally crashing a plane for YouTube clicks gets you

Steve Jobs Signed 'Apple Computer Company' Check to RadioShack

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