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South Africa's rare succulent plants are threatened by illegal trade—how to stop it - Tuesday January 07
Fully recovering Australia's threatened species would cost 25% of GDP. We can't do it all at once—so let's start here - Tuesday January 07
Expert discusses how to make resolutions that stick - Tuesday January 07
Coordinating risk assessments for radiation in outer space - Tuesday January 07
Sustainable nanofiber coating can extend fruit shelf life - Tuesday January 07
Fabricating single-photon detectors from superconducting aluminum nanostrips - Tuesday January 07
Building resilience: Risk perception and hurricane preparedness in Florida - Tuesday January 07
'Living school gate' and green infrastructure deliver major health and environmental benefits, study finds - Tuesday January 07
How white educators can boldly teach about race in engaging ways - Tuesday January 07
Combining graphene and nanodiamonds for better microplasma devices - Tuesday January 07
Signaling circuit interplay pushes newborn neurons out of the neuronal nest - Tuesday January 07
Integrating historical data stands to improve climate models in the Global South - Tuesday January 07
English children lag behind in geometry, but parents can help them learn through play - Tuesday January 07
Planning for spring's garden? Bees like variety and don't care about your neighbors' yards - Tuesday January 07
Providing driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants improves birth outcomes, research shows - Tuesday January 07
Technology is supposed to decrease teacher burnout, but research finds it can sometimes make it worse - Tuesday January 07
Parasite 'matchmakers' can genetically alter plant cells to attract insects - Tuesday January 07
Artists discover a new glowing mushroom in Switzerland - Tuesday January 07
What fan culture and mourning can teach us about grief - Tuesday January 07
Unlocking cell recycling: Weak molecular interactions provide new possibilities for artificial control - Tuesday January 07
Carbon dioxide has been regulating Earth's climate for hundreds of millions of years—new study - Tuesday January 07
Spiders 'smell' with their legs, new research finds - Tuesday January 07
Recycling planning: New approach improves predictions for solid waste management - Tuesday January 07
Beyond the hype: What workers really think about workplace AI assistants - Tuesday January 07
Field-level inference: Unlocking the full potential of galaxy maps to explore new physics - Tuesday January 07
La Niña back this summer? Not likely—and unofficial declarations are jumping the gun - Tuesday January 07
Study finds two classes of plant enzymes that ignore common rule of evolution - Tuesday January 07
Swearing, insults and hate speech: The social and psychological power of taboo language - Tuesday January 07
Cane toads on the barbie? How eating invasive species might help manage them - Tuesday January 07
Why do falcons have stripes under their eyes? The answer is more complex than we thought - Tuesday January 07

SlashDot

Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram in Free-Speech Pitch - Tuesday January 07
Popular DNA Sequencer Left Vulnerable By 7-Year-Old Firmware, Unfixed Security Flaws - Tuesday January 07
Apple's AI Is Proving It's Anything But Intelligent - Tuesday January 07
Nvidia Unveils $3,000 Personal AI Supercomputer - Tuesday January 07
Nvidia To Deploy AI Teammates in Video Games this Year - Tuesday January 07
Getty Images and Shutterstock Agree To Merge - Tuesday January 07
Microsoft Plans $3 Billion AI, Cloud Investment in India - Tuesday January 07
Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves - Tuesday January 07
America Is Stuck With an Elevator Crisis - Tuesday January 07
Outgoing NASA Administrator Urges Incoming Leaders To Stick With Artemis Plan - Tuesday January 07
John Deere Thinks Driverless Tractors Are the Answer To Labor Shortages - Tuesday January 07
US Records Its First Human Bird Flu Death - Tuesday January 07
Google Is Forming a New Team To Build AI That Can Simulate the Physical World - Tuesday January 07
AMD Reveals Next-Gen Handheld Gaming PC Chips - Tuesday January 07
US Adds Tencent, CATL To List of Chinese Firms Aiding Beijing's Military - Monday January 06

Engadget

ASUS unveiled the Zenbook A14 at CES 2025 and it's the MacBook Air competitor I've been dreaming of - Tuesday January 07
Lenovo's new ThinkPad X9 is the least ThinkPad ever - Tuesday January 07
Audio-Technica debuts earbuds with a whopping 25 hours of battery life at CES 2025 - Tuesday January 07
CES 2025: Lenovo’s 10th-gen Legion Pro 7i gaming laptop supports up to RTX 5090 graphics - Tuesday January 07
Acer’s latest Predator gaming laptops include NVIDIA RTX 50-series GPUs - Tuesday January 07
ASUS brings Qualcomm's latest chip to the Vivobook 14 and 16 - Tuesday January 07
Technics AZ100 earbuds hands-on: Magnetic fluid drivers deliver a big audio boost - Tuesday January 07
NVIDIA announces new RTX 5090 graphics card that costs $2,000 at CES - Tuesday January 07
Here's everything NVIDIA announced at its CES 2025 keynote - Tuesday January 07
The Hyve package security box should protect deliveries from dreaded porch pirates - Tuesday January 07
InkPoster uses an e-paper display to bring art to your home - Tuesday January 07
All the tech announced on Day One of CES 2025 - Tuesday January 07
Peacock is testing mini games and vertical short videos - Tuesday January 07
Dell dumps its PC brands to be more like Apple - Tuesday January 07
The ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable is a crazy concept made real - Tuesday January 07
Lenovo is already teasing the successor to its flagship Legion Go gaming handheld - Tuesday January 07
The original Diablo hits PC Game Pass on January 14 - Tuesday January 07
Discovery+ is raising prices for all customers - Tuesday January 07
RayNeo AR glasses hands-on at CES 2025: Surprisingly light and bright - Tuesday January 07
CES 2025: MSI made a CPU cooler with a tiny built-in turntable and it’s pure fun - Tuesday January 07
The Maingear Apex Force and Apex Rush might be the most beautiful water-cooled desktops at CES 2025 - Tuesday January 07
Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 9i is the first laptop to get an under-display camera - Tuesday January 07
Honda CES 2025 keynote: Watch Honda reveal its 0 Series EV prototypes live here - Tuesday January 07
The Lenovo Legion Go S is the first third-party SteamOS handheld - Tuesday January 07
Anker made a solar beach umbrella, because of course - Tuesday January 07
A new Crunchyroll manga mobile app arrives later this year - Tuesday January 07
Sony's latest PS5 Midnight Black accessories arrive next month - Tuesday January 07
CES 2025: Razer reveals Project Arielle, its first temperature-controlled gaming chair - Tuesday January 07
Moonbuddy is an adorable guided breathing device that’ll help your kid wind down - Tuesday January 07
Ring brings 2K video resolution to its cameras - Tuesday January 07
Anker announces new 140W wall charger with a handy built-in display at CES 2025 - Tuesday January 07
Displace will finally ship its wireless 4K OLED suction TVs in March of this year - Tuesday January 07
The 2024 Beats Pill is on sale for $100 right now - Tuesday January 07
Xreal’s new One Pro AR glasses are surprisingly good - Tuesday January 07
Meta is ditching third-party fact checkers - Tuesday January 07
Withings updates its blood pressure monitor and launches a cardio check-up feature - Tuesday January 07
German Bionic’s new Apogee Ultra exoskeleton can lift up to 80 pounds and help with walking - Tuesday January 07
Razer made a monitor stand with RGB lights, because of course it did - Tuesday January 07
Klipsch introduces the newest Music City Party karaoke-focused speakers - Tuesday January 07
Netgear’s Orbi 870 mesh router system is a great way to join the Wi-Fi 7 bandwagon - Tuesday January 07
New UK law would criminalize creating sexually explicit deepfakes - Tuesday January 07
Philips Hue adds AI-powered lighting options to its app - Tuesday January 07
8Bitdo's Ultimate Wired Controller for Xbox drops to only $30 - Tuesday January 07
The Shokz OpenFit 2 promises better sound and longer battery life - Tuesday January 07
Segway is finally launching e-bikes at CES 2025 - Tuesday January 07
The Pinwheel Watch is a kid-safe Apple Watch Ultra lookalike to placate your tween - Tuesday January 07
The Morning After: Acer's huge 11-inch handheld gaming PC - Tuesday January 07
I adore this clever mobile gamepad with Hall effect sticks and a snap-up design - Tuesday January 07
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X chip will power more affordable Copilot+ PCs - Tuesday January 07
The best smartwatches for 2025 - Tuesday January 07

Ars Technica

Meta axes third-party fact-checkers in time for second Trump term - Tuesday January 07
Switch 2 leaks point to controllers that work like computer mice - Tuesday January 07
Google Pixel 4a gets an unexpected update: Lower battery life - Tuesday January 07
Nvidia unveils $3,000 desktop AI computer for home researchers - Tuesday January 07
We have a new teaser for The Last of Us S2 - Tuesday January 07
Tesla’s remote parking under federal scrutiny after multiple crashes - Tuesday January 07
Sony and Honda’s EV goes on sale this year, starts at $89,900 - Tuesday January 07
Widely used DNA sequencer still doesn’t enforce Secure Boot - Tuesday January 07
Annual power ranking of US launch companies finds a shake-up at the bottom - Tuesday January 07
Apple will update iOS notification summaries after BBC headline mistake - Tuesday January 07
Controversial fluoride analysis published after years of failed reviews - Tuesday January 07
Disney makes antitrust problem go away by buying majority stake in Fubo - Monday January 06
“I’m getting dizzy”: Man films Waymo self-driving car driving around in circles - Monday January 06
AMD’s new laptop CPU lineup is a mix of new silicon and new names for old silicon - Monday January 06
AMD launches new Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs for PCs that play games and work hard - Monday January 06
AMD’s new Ryzen Z2 CPUs boost gaming handhelds, if you buy the best one - Monday January 06
The end of an era: Dell will no longer make XPS computers - Monday January 06
New Radeon RX 9000 GPUs promise to fix two of AMD’s biggest weaknesses - Monday January 06
HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content - Monday January 06
Sam Altman says “we are now confident we know how to build AGI” - Monday January 06

The Register

Turbulence at UN aviation agency as probe into potential data theft begins - Tuesday January 07
AI can improve on code it writes, but you have to know how to ask - Tuesday January 07
Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X chip targets $600 Copilot+ PCs - Tuesday January 07
Apple shrugs off BBC complaint with promise to 'further clarify' AI content - Tuesday January 07
DEF CON's hacker-in-chief faces fortune in medical bills after paralyzing neck injury - Tuesday January 07
First launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket slated for January 10 - Tuesday January 07
Windows 11 24H2 can run – sort of – in 184MB - Tuesday January 07
Can AWS really fix AI hallucination? We talk to head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook - Tuesday January 07
Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics - Tuesday January 07
UK gives Openreach £289M for 4 rural broadband contracts in 'gigabit by 2030' push - Tuesday January 07
The unlicensed OneDrive free ride ends this month - Tuesday January 07
The latest language in the GNU Compiler Collection: Algol-68 - Tuesday January 07
Intel debuts laptop silicon that doesn't qualify for Microsoft's 'Copilot+ PC' badge - Tuesday January 07
US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies - Tuesday January 07
Demand for AI servers sees Foxconn fly and suppliers come along for the ride - Tuesday January 07
Nvidia shrinks Grace-Blackwell Superchip to power $3K mini PC - Tuesday January 07
Dude, you got a Dell, period! RIP XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, Precision - Tuesday January 07
3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error - Tuesday January 07
New Orleans attacker used Meta smart glasses to plan New Year's Day massacre - Monday January 06
Even at $200/mo, Altman admits ChatGPT Pro struggles to turn a profit - Monday January 06
Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh' - Monday January 06
Charter, Consolidated, Windstream reportedly join China's Salt Typhoon victim list - Monday January 06
Tired of begging, Microsoft now trying to trick users into thinking Bing is Google - Monday January 06
FireScam infostealer poses as Telegram Premium app to surveil Android devices - Monday January 06
Eutelsat OneWeb blames 366th day for 48-hour date disaster - Monday January 06
MediaTek rings in the new year with a parade of chipset vulns - Monday January 06
AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025 - Monday January 06
SpaceX will try satellite deployment on next Starship test - Monday January 06
Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery - Monday January 06
Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters - Monday January 06
Microsoft's spat with ValueLicensing limps toward 2026 showdown - Monday January 06
After China's Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now - Monday January 06
Brackets go there? Oops. That’s not where I used them and now things are broken - Monday January 06
Broadcom filing mentions major VMware Cloud Foundation releases in March and July - Monday January 06
Taiwan reportedly claims China-linked ship damaged one of its submarine cables - Monday January 06
Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online - Monday January 06
Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand 'surges 1150%' - Sunday January 05
How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software - Sunday January 05
Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe's old-school migrators - Sunday January 05
How datacenters use water and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible - Saturday January 04

TechDirt

The Jawboning Double Standard: Brendan Carr’s Threats Are Way Worse Than What Biden Was Accused Of - Tuesday January 07
U.S. Media Once Again Fails To Cover The Corrupt Net Neutrality Ruling With Any Clarity - Tuesday January 07
Another Court Says A Drug Dog Sniff Is A Search, Requires Probable Cause To Justify It - Tuesday January 07
Maine Still Hashing Out The Details Of Its Year Old ‘Right To Repair’ Law As Auto Lobbyists Loom - Monday January 06
Jeff Bezos’ Latest Gambit To Bring Back Trust In Media: Silence Editorial Cartoonists Who Call Out Your Sniveling Compliance - Monday January 06
Rep. Steve Scalise Takes To The Airwaves To Blame The New Orleans Terrorist Attack On DEI Initiatives - Monday January 06
Daily Deal: The Ultimate Python & Artificial Intelligence Bundle - Monday January 06
Twitter Briefly Blocked The NY Post, Elon Cried Foul. Now He’s Doing Far Worse - Monday January 06
Whoops: Volkswagen Leaks Sensitive Data Of 800,000 Electric Vehicle Owners - Monday January 06
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - Sunday January 05

Esri - ArcGIS

ArcGIS Enterprise: Migrate to the object store - Tuesday January 07
Getting to Know the SAR Analysis Toolset - Tuesday January 07
Create gauges using stacked symbols and rotation - Tuesday January 07
Use Arcade to rotate symbols in web maps - Tuesday January 07
Pop-ups: Arcade essentials - Tuesday January 07

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ESPN Headlines

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Colts' Reich expects Rivers to play beyond 2020

Michael Phelps: 'This is the most overwhelmed I've ever felt'

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Cavs' Nance urges NBA to understand worries