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Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals
Ars Technica

Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals

Much of what we know about how a brain makes decisions comes from studying monkeys watching dots. In a task known as a random-dot-motion task, a cloud of flickering specks drifts weakly in one direction while the subject tries to determine whether —...

Ars Technica9 days ago
Review: Carrie is a triumphant remix with one major flaw
Ars Technica

Review: Carrie is a triumphant remix with one major flaw

Carrie White, the telekinetic prom queen from hell, is one of the most beloved horror icons in popular culture. First introduced in Stephen King's 1974 novel, Carrie, the character was immortalized in director Brian De Palma's 1976 adaptation, widely...

Ars Technica11 days ago
Russian man linked to deadly London hospitals hack arrested
BBC News Technology

Russian man linked to deadly London hospitals hack arrested

- Published German police have detained a Russian man accused of being part of a cyber-crime gang which caused chaos at London hospitals and contributed to a patient's death. The hack of blood testing company Synnovis in 2024 led to disrupted patho...

BBC News Technology16 days ago
Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware
Ars Technica

Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware

Topgolf's VMware costs were going to increase by 400 percent under Broadcom. To avoid that cost, the sports entertainment company moved 12,000 virtual machines (VMs) to VergeIO's VergeOS and has saved over $11 million so far. Before migrating, Topgo...

Ars Technica19 days ago
NASA dumped over 800GB of Artemis II data online
The Verge

NASA dumped over 800GB of Artemis II data online

If you thought you'd seen all there is to see from the Artemis II mission, you're wrong. This week NASA posted over 800GB worth of science data, images, and videos on the Artemis II: Sights & Sounds of Science site. The archive includes over 11,000 p...

The Verge21 days ago
13 Best Gifts for Every Traveler Should Have (2026)
Wired

13 Best Gifts for Every Traveler Should Have (2026)

Even the most seasoned globe-trotter likely finds traveling stressful. Between panic-packing, navigating cramped terminals, and living out of a suitcase, each phase of being away from home can be overstimulating. That's why the best gifts for travele...

Wired21 days ago
Inside the Muslim Manosphere Policing Women Online
Wired

Inside the Muslim Manosphere Policing Women Online

Mariam recently disabled Facebook Messenger. As the administrator of a Facebook group for women in the United Arab Emirates with close to 400,000 members, she'd become accustomed to receiving messages from strangers. But then came a shift in the volu...

Wired21 days ago
The hidden features every Waze user should know about
Engadget

The hidden features every Waze user should know about

There are a load of features tucked away in Google's 'other' mapping app. There are some services that become most people's default simply by doing many things right, and Google Maps is one of them. Its coverage across different countries and reliab...

Engadget21 days ago
Disney Plus will stream Super Bowl LXI
The Verge

Disney Plus will stream Super Bowl LXI

Next year’s Super Bowl is headed to Disney Plus. On Wednesday, Disney announced that viewers will be able to tune in to Super Bowl LXI on its streaming service when the game kicks off on February 14th, 2027. Disney Plus will stream Super Bowl LXI Dis...

The Verge25 days ago
19 Best Prime Day Deals on Phone Accessories (2026)
Wired

19 Best Prime Day Deals on Phone Accessories (2026)

Stock Up on the Best Prime Day Deals on Phone Accessories Just bought a new phone or looking to enhance an existing one? Prime Day is the time to save on accessories like batteries, chargers, and more. Illustration: Isadora-Ayesa Lima; Courtesy of Am...

Wired25 days ago
A Cop's Case for Flock
Worksinprogress

A Cop's Case for Flock

People are right to want less police intrusion in their lives. The way to get there is more precision, not less. A car is a difficult thing to steal. It is large, cherished by its owner, difficult to hide and required by law to have identifying metal...

Worksinprogress25 days ago
Google Home update fixes broken smart light color control
9to5Google

Google Home update fixes broken smart light color control

Color LED bulbs were refusing to do their job because of a Google Home bug. Google says the fix is rolling out now. According to a few users on Reddit, Google Home isn’t properly adjusting color on smart bulbs. Users say it hasn’t been limited to jus...

9to5Google25 days ago
K-pop star Sunmi loves Notion and ear cleaning videos
The Verge

K-pop star Sunmi loves Notion and ear cleaning videos

Sunmi is an undeniable force in K-pop. She first made her debut as a member of the Wonder Girls back in 2007, one of the first K-pop acts to really break through in the West. The English version of their single “Nobody” was the first K-pop song to hi...

The Verge22 days ago
Build your own decision model
Nishtahir

Build your own decision model

Build your own decision model "System one" decision models are models that infer and respond with calibrated probabilities or every allowed answer. Consider your everyday language model, to get typed output from it (JSON), you may use Structured Outp...

Nishtahir22 days ago
Simple tweaks to improve your 4K TV's picture quality
Engadget

Simple tweaks to improve your 4K TV's picture quality

Simple tweaks to improve your 4K TV's picture quality Your TV won't look its best coming out of the box, so some calibrations are in order. While your 4K TV might look great as-is, you won't get the best picture quality from it out of the box. Modern...

Engadget22 days ago
Southampton vs Portsmouth live streams
TechRadar

Southampton vs Portsmouth live streams

How to watch Southampton vs Portsmouth: Free Streams and TV Channels for EFL Championship 2026/27 clash The bitter South Coast rivals renew hostilities as Tonda Eckert must be on his best behavior - Southampton vs Portsmouth: Sunday, October 11 - Kic...

TechRadar21 days ago
Where Google Wallet state IDs are available on Android
9to5Google

Where Google Wallet state IDs are available on Android

States across the US are slowly rolling out support for adding your driver’s license or ID to the Google Wallet app on Android. Update 10/10 How to add your state ID on Android - Open the Google Wallet app on Android 9+ - Tap the “plus” button next t...

9to5Google22 days ago
Google Health 5.10 rolling out for Android, iOS
9to5Google

Google Health 5.10 rolling out for Android, iOS

Google Health 5.10 is rolling out as a smaller update this week with a trio of new features across the app. Version 5.10 is available on iOS and still rolling out for Android users: Irregular Rhythm Notification in Japan: Irregular Rhythm Notificatio...

9to5Google23 days ago
LineageOS 24.0
Lineageos

LineageOS 24.0

Changelog 32 - Slick Seventeen, Awesome Applications, Universal USB Tools ### Written on October 11, 2026 by Nolen Johnson (npjohnson) 24 - Getting Sentimental Hey there! Welcome back! We're a bit sentimental about this release, as it precedes a ...

Lineageos22 days ago
Apple TV's F1 coverage will now support Dolby Atmos
Engadget

Apple TV's F1 coverage will now support Dolby Atmos

Apple TV’s F1 coverage will now support Dolby Atmos The upgraded audio will debut at the US Grand Prix in Austin later this month. Apple TV's Formula 1 coverage will support Dolby Atmos, starting with the US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas taking place f...

Engadget25 days ago
Withings BodyScan 2 Review: Worth Its Weight
Wired

Withings BodyScan 2 Review: Worth Its Weight

I’m going to be honest from the start: No, you probably don’t need a $600 scale in your bathroom if you are just doing occasional weigh-ins. Hell, I don’t even know that elite athletes need to make this kind of extreme outlay even if they need to per...

Wired25 days ago
Spotify expands audiobooks to over 180 markets
TechCrunch

Spotify expands audiobooks to over 180 markets

Spotify announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding audiobook access to over 180 markets worldwide, including regions across Europe, the Americas, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The rollout is starting today and will continue over t...

TechCrunch25 days ago
Jaguar Finally Reveals Its Biggest Gamble: the Type 01
Wired

Jaguar Finally Reveals Its Biggest Gamble: the Type 01

The day has finally arrived. Jaguar began its long road to electric reinvention in November 2024 with a firestorm of a rebrand featuring no cars. Just a month later, it revealed a prototype: the Type 00—a car so polarizing it practically broke the in...

Wired25 days ago
Finland orders halt to work on two Google data centres
BBC News

Finland orders halt to work on two Google data centres

Finland orders halt to work on two Google data centres - Published Finnish authorities have ordered a halt to building work at two planned Google data centres amid concerns over the clearance of more than 300 hectares of forest. The sites form part o...

BBC News25 days ago
Calling It Quits on ServerFault
Sysadmin1138

Calling It Quits on ServerFault

It's time to be done after just over 15 years of moderator work. I was elected in the very first community election in January and February of 2011, and by now I'm quite possibly in the top five for longest serving community moderators on the origina...

Sysadmin113825 days ago
The art of defusing a second world war bomb
The Guardian

The art of defusing a second world war bomb

Everyone at Exmouth Marina knew there was an unexploded German bomb in the water. Old hands at the dock had been saying so since the end of the second world war. But the marina had been dredged and re-dredged and nothing had ever come up. It had star...

The Guardian25 days ago
Why do some PCs have two Ethernet ports?
Engadget

Why do some PCs have two Ethernet ports?

Why do some PCs have two Ethernet ports? Your PC probably doesn’t need both ports, but workstations and servers can put them to work. The two Ethernet ports on some PCs aren't a matter of aesthetics or a simple selling point. Their primary purpose is...

Engadget25 days ago
Two great new repairable gadgets
The Verge

Two great new repairable gadgets

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 141, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I’m newish here too, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) Two great new repairable ga...

The Verge27 days ago
Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging
Ars Technica

Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging

Most of what we know about the Earth's interior comes from observing seismic waves. These travel at somewhat different speeds depending on the details of the rock they're moving through—whether it's solid or semi-molten, how much water is present, wh...

Ars Technica27 days ago
Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens
Soverybright

Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

The wordmark White type on black — the classic case. The whites are selected automatically. glows: whites Upload a logo, choose which colors should glow, download an HDR JPEG. On HDR screens the chosen parts shine up to 7.5× brighter than #FFFFFF. Ev...

Soverybright27 days ago
hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate
Lapcatsoftware

hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

The macOS command-line tool hdiutil is used to manipulate disk images. From the WHAT'S NEW section of man hdiutil on the latest macOS 27 Golden Gate beta: In macOS 27.0, hdiutil is deprecated. Use diskutil image instead for all disk image operations....

Lapcatsoftware27 days ago
Mother tongue
MIT Tech Review

Mother tongue

Mother tongue A story about erasure “Daddy?” Theo curled against my side in bed. “Where do words go when they die?” I’d orchestrated the bedtime routine flawlessly: bath (taken), teeth (brushed), potty (tinkled), books (two), song (one, poorly sung),...

MIT Tech Review27 days ago
TIFF 2026: the latest movie reviews from Toronto
The Verge

TIFF 2026: the latest movie reviews from Toronto

If you want an idea of what’s next in film, the Toronto International Film Festival is a good place to start. Every year TIFF features a huge range of features from around the world, and often some of them go on to be huge hits or awards contenders; ...

The Verge27 days ago
Steam Frame: The Ars Technica review
Ars Technica

Steam Frame: The Ars Technica review

In the 2010s, Valve was at the forefront of a virtual reality revolution that looked to some like it would upend the gaming industry. The Valve of six to ten years ago seemed committed to being a major player in the world of PC-connected VR headsets,...

Ars Technica27 days ago
Prehistoric builders transported Devil's Arrows 11 miles
Ars Technica

Prehistoric builders transported Devil's Arrows 11 miles

Stonehenge is the most famous example of megalithic architecture across Britain and Ireland, but there are plenty of others, including Calanais, Newgrange, and Avebury, as well as the Devil's Arrows. The latter is Britain's tallest standing stone ali...

Ars Technica27 days ago
Steam Frame starts at $1059
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Steam Frame starts at $1059

© Valve Corporation. All rights reserved. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. Privacy Policy  |  Legal  |  Accessibility  |  Steam Subscriber Agreement ...

Store27 days ago
Donated livers can be made biologically younger
MIT Tech Review

Donated livers can be made biologically younger

Donated livers can be made biologically younger The finding might help explain why “perfused” livers do better once they’re transplanted. Once an organ is removed from a donor’s body, the clock starts ticking. Surgeons usually flush the organ with a ...

MIT Tech Review27 days ago
Switzerland takes a Swiss Army knife to Microsoft 365
ZDNet

Switzerland takes a Swiss Army knife to Microsoft 365

ZDNET’s key takeaways - Two Swiss government groups are moving from Microsoft 365 to openDesk. - The Swiss Federal Chancellery and Swiss Armed Forces are moving at different paces. - It’s mostly about protecting Swiss data from American snoopers. Swi...

ZDNet27 days ago
How chimps teach their kids tool tricks
Ars Technica

How chimps teach their kids tool tricks

Chimpanzees are known to use rudimentary tools when foraging for food. According to a new paper in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, this learned behavior is passed down from adults to offspring through social learning. Specifically, adult chimps ...

Ars Technica27 days ago
Fuck Android Developer Verification Program
Twitter

Fuck Android Developer Verification Program

Previously, I started a new Play Store account because I wanted to make video games for Android. But I never got time to finish my game. As a result, my personal play store account was closed by @Google because of inactivity. Now, I developed a new ...

Twitter27 days ago
How to watch NASA's Crew-13 launch
Engadget

How to watch NASA's Crew-13 launch

How to watch NASA's Crew-13 launch Three astronauts and one cosmonaut are heading to the International Space Station on Thursday. NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission launches this week, bringing a new group of astronauts and one cosmonaut to the Internatio...

Engadget27 days ago
Apple TV is down
Engadget

Apple TV is down

Apple TV is down It has been unavailable since the afternoon of September 30. If you can't access Apple TV to watch the latest episode of Ted Lasso, you are not alone. Apple TV has been down and unavailable since September 30, 4:43PM. According to 9t...

Engadget27 days ago
openSUSE Leap adds a new security layer: Immutable mode
ZDNet

openSUSE Leap adds a new security layer: Immutable mode

ZDNET’s key takeaways - openSUSE Leap is getting an immutable mode. - openSUSE already includes plenty of security features. - This addition should make Leap one of the most secure distros. I’ve been a fan of SUSE and openSUSE for a long time. I actu...

ZDNet27 days ago
Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break
Wired

Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break

Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. If you’ve got a question or thought for the column, feel free to shoot Molly an email at [email protected] or re...

Wired27 days ago
A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap
Frn

A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap

A 40ms Go GC pause caused by swap I’m writing this so you don’t slap your forehead like I almost did when I decided to run swap in production to absorb memory spikes. I had a cgroup with two processes: one is a Go process that calls io.ReadAll and th...

Frn27 days ago
Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx
Vincent

Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx

Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and nginx Vincent Bernat A friend wants to proofread your work-in-progress blog post, but its preview only runs on localhost:8080. Several tools can help. Some run as a commercial service, like ngrok or Cloudflare Qu...

Vincent27 days ago