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Philosopher Daniel Dennett dead at 82

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Part of the "New Atheist" movement, best known for work on consciousness, free will.

Friday, Apr 19

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It’s cutting calories—not intermittent fasting—that drops weight, study suggests

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The study is small and imperfect but offers more data on how time-restricted diets work.

CNN, record holder for shortest streaming service, wants another shot

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New CNN head thinks CNN+ "was abandoned rather briskly."

Long-lost model of the USS Enterprise returned to Roddenberry family

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It showed up in an eBay listing; now Roddenberry's son wants to show it to fans.

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Cities: Skylines 2 team apologizes, makes DLC free and promises a fan summit

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A "complete focus on improving the base game" will happen before more paid DLC.

Netflix doc accused of using AI to manipulate true crime story

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Producer remained vague about whether AI was used to edit photos.

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Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera

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The retractable camera lens works like a mini point-and-shoot!

Io: New image of a lake of fire, signs of permanent volcanism

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Juno captures images of Io's violence as study says it has always been that way.

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Modder packs an entire Nintendo Wii into a box the size of a pack of cards

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There's no disc drive, but there are still ports for GameCube controllers.

Roku forcing 2-factor authentication after 2 breaches of 600K accounts

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Accounts with stored payment information went for as little as $0.50 each.

China orders Apple to remove Meta apps after “inflammatory” posts about president

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WhatsApp, Threads, Telegram, and Signal removed from Apple App Store in China.

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Crypto influencer guilty of $110M scheme that shut down Mango Markets

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Fraudster charged with crypto market manipulation defended Mango Markets scheme.

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This AI-controlled jet fighter has now flown against human pilots

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After flying against simulated opponents, the AI agent has taken on humans.

NASA may alter Artemis III to have Starship and Orion dock in low-Earth orbit

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If it were to happen, a revised Artemis III mission could echo Apollo 9.

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Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal cover

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This time there's no over-the-air software patch.

Password crackdown leads to more income for Netflix

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Netflix to stop reporting subscriber numbers, prioritizing viewer engagement instead.

Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track

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YouTube videos of 6K celebrities helped train AI model to animate photos in real time.

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Rocket Report: Starship could save Mars Sample Return; BE-4s for second Vulcan

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Australia's first homemade orbital-class rocket makes an appearance on its launch pad.

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Boeing says it will cut SLS workforce “due to external factors”

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Enlarge / The SLS rocket is seen on its launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in August 2022. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann)

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Hospital prices for the same emergency care vary up to 16X, study finds

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Hospitals' "trauma activation fees" are unregulated and extremely variable.

Prime Video looking to fix “extremely sloppy mistakes” in library, report says

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Business Insider reports of inaccuracy concerns that could hurt viewership.

Thursday, Apr 18

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Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokes

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X likely hopes to avoid liability with disclaimer that Grok "can make mistakes."

Renovation relic: Man finds hominin jawbone in parents’ travertine kitchen tile

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Yes, travertine often has embedded fossils. But not usually hominin ones.

LLMs keep leaping with Llama 3, Meta’s newest open-weights AI model

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Zuckerberg says new AI model "was still learning" until Meta stopped training.

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Meta’s new $199 Quest 2 price is a steal for the VR-curious

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Move comes as support winds down for the original Quest headset.

Google merges the Android, Chrome, and hardware divisions

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Google says the new “Platform and Devices” team will let it move faster.

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SpaceX and Northrop are working on a constellation of spy satellites

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First launch of these operational vehicles may occur next month from California.

Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules

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Ruling: Thumbprint scan is like a "blood draw or fingerprint taken at booking."

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LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy

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Campaign used email, SMS, and voice calls to trick targets into divulging master passwords.

Fallout games continue seeing big player jumps after the TV series’ success

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Enlarge / Seeing power armor in the Fallout series inspired many players to jump back into their own suits (and start stockpiling fusion cores). (credit: Amazon/MGM Studios)