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Vox lawyers briefly censored YouTubers who mocked The Verge’s bad PC build advice

Last week, The Verge got a reminder about the power of the Streisand effect after its lawyers issued copyright takedown requests for two...

Mandatory update coming to Windows 7, 2008 to kill off weak update hashes

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 users will imminently have to deploy a mandatory patch if they want to continue updating their systems,...

After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded

During the last 15 years, the US Congress has authorized budgets totaling $46 billion for various NASA deep-space exploration plans. By late summer,...

Gene editing still has a few bugs in the system

Gene editing has been in the news lately due to an ethically reckless experiment in which human embryos were subjected to an inefficient...

New carbon capture solvent is another stab at optimism in a stagnant industry

Capturing carbon emissions before they enter the atmosphere is a white whale for the fossil fuel industry. In theory, if a power plant...

Retina resolution headset puts the “reality” into “virtual reality”

Current virtual reality headsets are pretty good at the "virtual" bit but tend to fall down on the "reality" side of things. It's...

High-tech toilet seat monitors your heart as you sit on the can

If developing heart disease scares the poo out of you, this new monitor may be just the thing. Engineers at Rochester Institute...

Another blow to Blu-ray: Samsung will no longer make Blu-ray players for the US

If you didn’t notice any Blu-ray player announcements from Samsung at CES this year, there’s a reason for that: the company has...

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