Should the US prioritize settling Mars? Should we all just read A City on Mars and call the whole thing off?

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Should we settle Mars, or is it a dumb idea for humans to live off world?

Should we all just read A City on Mars and call the whole thing off?

Microsoft is putting privacy-endangering Recall back into Windows 11 Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?

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That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows

Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?

Apple silent as Trump promises “impossible” US-made iPhones How does Apple solve a problem like Trump’s trade war?

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Apple silent as Trump promises “impossible” US-made iPhones

How does Apple solve a problem like Trump’s trade war?

Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs Even weirder: why would Google give so many the "Featured" stamp for trustworthiness?

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Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs

Even weirder: Why would Google give so many the "Featured" stamp for trustworthiness?

Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE Tesla has a lot riding on the swift success of its so-called Full Self-Driving software.

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Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE

Tesla has a lot riding on the swift success of its so-called Full Self-Driving software.

Google Pixel 9a review: All the phone you need The Pixel 9a looks great and shoots lovely photos, but it's light on AI.

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Google Pixel 9a review: All the phone you need

The Pixel 9a looks great and shoots lovely photos, but it's light on AI.

A key SpaceX competitor says he has “not been impacted” by Musk’s ties to Trump "I expect that the government will follow all the rules and be fair and follow all the laws."

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Here are the reasons SpaceX won nearly all recent military launch contracts

I expect that the government will follow all the rules and be fair and follow all the laws."

OpenAI’s GPT helps spammers send blast of 80,000 messages that bypassed filters Company didn't notice its chatbot was being abused for (at least) 4 months.

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OpenAI helps spammers plaster 80,000 sites with messages that bypassed filters

Company didn't notice its chatbot was being abused for (at least) 4 months.

Nintendo explains why Switch 2 hardware and software prices cost so much $450 system isn't being sold at a loss, wasn't priced with tariffs in mind.

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Nintendo explains why Switch 2 hardware and software cost so much

$450 system isn't being sold at a loss, wasn't priced with tariffs in mind.

Fire up your Compaq Deskpro: FreeDOS 1.4 is the first stable update since 2022 Independent developers are keeping the command prompt alive on PCs new and old.

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FreeDOS 1.4 brings new fixes and features to modern and vintage DOS-based PCs

Independent developers are keeping the command prompt alive on PCs new and old.