All posts tagged "Tech News"
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1TechDonkey Kong’s famed kill screen has been cleared for the first time
A short emulator-aided demonstration of how the broken ladder glitch works (not shown: the dozens of frame-perfect inputs needed to pull it...
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4TechFeds putting the kibosh on national EV charging program
“There is no legal basis for funds that have been apportioned to states to build projects being ‘decertified’ based on policy,” says...
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14TechDOGE can’t use student loan data to dismantle the Education Dept., lawsuit says
Microsoft declined to comment, but allegedly the DOGE employees are “using AI software accessed through Microsoft’s cloud computing service Azure to pore...
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10TechFootball Manager 25 canceled in a refreshing show of concern for quality
The developer’s statement notes that preorder customers are getting refunds. Answering a question that has always been obvious to fans but never...
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8TechMeasles outbreak erupts in one of Texas’ least vaccinated counties
Still, the county-wide number obscures pockets of yet lower vaccination rates. That includes the independent public school district in Loop, in the...
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9TechBoeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SLS contracts
The primary contractor for the Space Launch System rocket, Boeing, is preparing for the possibility that NASA cancels the long-running program. On...
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14TechThe Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games
Despite all this, The Sims is worth a look It’s telling that in a market with too many options, I still put...
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21TechNational Institutes of Health radically cuts support to universities
Grants paid by the federal government have two components. One covers the direct costs of performing the research, paying for salaries, equipment,...
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9TechFootball Manager 25 video game cancelled after series of delays | Football
The makers of Football Manager have cancelled the 2025 release of the game after a series of delays. Sports Interactive (SI) announced...
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11TechDeveloper creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction
On a recent WikiTok browsing run, I ran across entries on topics like SX-Window (a GUI for the Sharp X68000 series of...
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16TechUK demands Apple break encryption to allow gov’t spying worldwide, reports say
The United Kingdom issued a secret order requiring Apple to create a backdoor for government security officials to access encrypted data, The...
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8TechReturn of the California Condor
The complete decoding of the California condor genome, published in 2021, also revealed valuable information about the bird’s evolutionary history and prehistoric...
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121TechUK demands ability to access Apple users’ encrypted data | Apple
The UK government has demanded that Apple creates a backdoor in its encrypted cloud service, in a confrontation that challenges the US...
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11TechRocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong
Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include launching...
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16TechParrots struggle when told to do something other than mimic their peers
There have been many studies on the capability of non-human animals to mimic transitive actions—actions that have a purpose. Hardly any studies...
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12TechThe UK got rid of coal—where’s it going next?
With the closure of its last coal-fired power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, on September 30, 2024, the United Kingdom has taken a significant step...
