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Android 8.0 Oreo, scrupulously reviewed
The psychology of Soylent and the prison of first-world food choices
Lenovo’s Yoga nine hundred twenty comes in Starlet Wars Rebel and Imperial designs
The Finishes of the World is page-turner about mass extinction
Tale of deep geological time feels like a scientifically-accurate disaster movie.
by Manu Saadia – Sep Four, two thousand seventeen Four:00 pm UTC
Masterpiece: Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II is an arcade monster that has stood the test of time.
by Dave Girard – Sep Four, two thousand seventeen Two:00 pm UTC
The PC issues that need fixing before Final Fantasy XV launches on Windows
PAX West demo may not be indicative of final PC product. We sure hope not.
by Sam Machkovech – Sep Four, two thousand seventeen 12:00 pm UTC
Feature Story
Android 8.0 Oreo, accurately reviewed
We take a 20,000 word deep-dive on Android’s “foundational” upgrades.
by Ron Amadeo | Sep Four, two thousand seventeen Ten:00 am UTC
Lenovo’s Yoga nine hundred twenty comes in Starlet Wars Rebel and Imperial designs
Thinner, lighter, and with quad-core Intel CPUs embarking at $649.
The psychology of Soylent and the prison of first-world food choices
Why are some repulsed by Soylent, but others desperate to receive their orders?
by Lee Hutchinson – Sep Trio, two thousand seventeen Four:30 pm UTC
Neanderthals were distilling tar two hundred thousand years ago in Europe
These early humans were using tar to make instruments long before Homo sapiens did.
by Annalee Newitz – Sep Trio, two thousand seventeen Three:00 pm UTC
Book review: The Changeling makes baby photos, trust in Internet vanish
Check out this book about creepy, Internet-fueled surveillance ahead of its TV version.
by Charlie Jane Anders – Sep Trio, two thousand seventeen Two:00 pm UTC
Review: Predominate the solar system in The Expanse board game
The hit sci-fi showcase is now a board game—and a pretty good one.
by Charles Theel – Sep Two, two thousand seventeen Four:11 pm UTC
PAX West: At least eight of UFO 50’s games are instant retro classics
Preview: NES-styled game anthology is off to an amazing embark.
by Sam Machkovech – Sep Two, two thousand seventeen Three:00 pm UTC
Google promised not to scan Gmail for targeted ads—but for how long?
Google tells judge it might resume targeted advertising “to meet switching requests.”
by David Kravets – Sep Two, two thousand seventeen Two:00 pm UTC
LG V30 arms on—LG’s OLED displays still have quality issues
The OLED display and f1.6 camera sound good on paper. In real life tho’.
by Ron Amadeo – Sep Two, two thousand seventeen 1:00 pm UTC
An asthma medication seems to lower Parkinson’s disease risks
Drug ID’ed in a screen based on what biologists have learned about Parkinson’s.
by John Timmer – Sep Two, two thousand seventeen 12:00 pm UTC
America’s fresh ironman is headed home from space—it’s Peggy Whitson
Her duration records will likely hold up for a very long time.
by Eric Berger – Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Ten:46 pm UTC
CDC: Homeopathic “healing bracelet” poisons baby with high levels of lead
Beads tested positive for lead after baby found to have 8X worrying levels in blood.
by Beth Mole – Sep 1, two thousand seventeen 9:03 pm UTC
Squeezed for profits, maker of $400 connected juice press closes up shop
Company: Juice bag delivery “requires infrastructure that we cannot achieve on our own.”
by Megan Geuss – Sep 1, two thousand seventeen 7:35 pm UTC
Tesla faces labor board complaint alleging interference with unionization
Tesla says the allegations are “without merit.”
by Megan Geuss – Sep 1, two thousand seventeen 6:17 pm UTC
Jury finds Nintendo Wii infringes Dallas inventor’s patent, awards $10M
iLife couldn’t sell its fall-detection system, but it might get a payday from Nintendo.
by Joe Mullin – Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Five:25 pm UTC
Hacking street signs with stickers could confuse self-driving cars
Subtle or camouflaged optical hacks can switch a stop sign into something else.
Third-party Google Assistant speakers put “OK Google” in tons of form factors
The Google Assistant comes to speakers from Sony, JBL, Onkyo, Panasonic, and others.
by Ron Amadeo – Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Three:55 pm UTC
The next big Windows ten update will be out on October 17
Headsets will cost as little as $299, and will work with integrated graphics.
by Peter Bright – Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Two:45 pm UTC
Reporter: Google successfully pressured me to take down critical story
Google allegedly told Forbes “the article was problematic and had to come down.”
by Timothy B. Lee – Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Two:21 pm UTC
Ancient fish skulls jiggle up the vertebrate evolutionary tree
The largest group of fishes may be forty million years junior than we thought.
With Indian rocket launch failure, two thousand seventeen witnessing a higher accident rate
This is the fifth orbital rocket failure of 2017.
by Eric Berger – Sep 1, two thousand seventeen 1:56 pm UTC
Qualcomm covers all the bases with a cellular “vehicle-to-everything” chipset
It combines the cellular modem and direct short-range radio together in one.
JP Morgan Pursue just got a patent on basic app communications
A ordinary Google search would have found oodles of prior art.
by Joe Mullin – Sep 1, two thousand seventeen 11:15 am UTC
How forests balance the books in a switching climate
Plusses: more carbon dioxide and humidity. Minuses: more fever and drought.
Site sells Instagram users’ phone and e-mail details, $Ten a search
Leak suggests this week’s Instagram breach was fatter than very first thought.
by Dan Goodin – Sep 1, two thousand seventeen 8:26 am UTC
Feature Story
Tech companies announce war on hate speech—and conservatives are worried
In light of Charlottesville, Silicon Valley revisits its absolute treatment to free speech.
by Timothy B. Lee | Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Two:05 am UTC
Plumbing discovery exposes the rise and fall of the Roman Empire
Ancient lead pollution in a Roman harbor shows the city’s fortunes grew with its pipes.
by Annalee Newitz – Sep 1, two thousand seventeen 1:15 am UTC
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