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Nvidia nudges mainstream gaming PCs forward with RTX 5060 series, starting at $299
Rumors from earlier this year that correctly reported the specs of the 5060 series also indicated that Nvidia was planning to launch a low-end RTX 5050 GPU at some point, its first new entry-level GPU ...
White House aims to defund NPR and PBS in move slammed as “cultural sabotage”
The Trump White House is proposing to eliminate most federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public ...
The physics of bowling strike after strike
Hooper has been studying the physics of bowling for several years, including an analysis of the 2017 Weber Cup, as well as ...
Internet cesspit 4chan apparently hacked, mostly unreachable since Monday night
Infamous Internet imageboard and wretched hive of scum and villainy 4chan was apparently hacked at some point Monday evening ...
Netflix plans to bring streaming into the $1 trillion club by 2030
Netflix plans to reach a market capitalization of $1 trillion by 2030, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported this week, citing anonymous people who attended an “annual business review meeting” that ...
Tuesday Telescope: Is the James Webb Space Telescope worth $10 billion?
In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE mission, to make infrared observations. This was the latest in a line of space-based, infrared observatories, and it cost about ...
Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for 3 days
This is similar to a feature known as Inactivity Reboot that Apple added to the iPhone in iOS 18.1. This actually caused some annoyance among law enforcement officials who believed they had suspects' ...
ISPs and robocallers love the FCC plan to “delete” as many rules as possible
Broadband providers that want fewer telecom regulations and debt collectors opposed to robocall rules were among those submitting comments to the FCC in response to Chairman Brendan Carr's request for ...
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Here’s how a satellite ended up as a ghostly apparition on Google Earth
Dig deep on Google Earth and you'll inevitably find a surprise or two. Maybe you're looking at far-flung islands in the middle of an ocean or checking in on something closer to home. A few years ago, ...
FCC head Brendan Carr tells Europe to get on board with Starlink
Last month, Ericsson chief executive Börje Ekholm told the FT the company would consider expanding manufacturing in the US depending on how potential tariffs affected it. The Swedish telecoms ...
Here’s the latest on NASA’s Lunar Gateway, a program many people want to cancel
That sounds like a pretty good deal for NASA, but it still leaves the US space agency with a hefty bill. NASA has spent more ...
CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty
The most common types of cancers estimated to be a result of CT scans were lung cancer and colon cancer—two cancers that are ...