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Enlarge / Screenshot from Putin’s squad video on bringing Starliner’s astronauts home. One of the odder propaganda phenomena in Russia, of late, is seemingly spontaneous groups of elderly Russian pensioners gathering outdoors and espousing some random bit of agitprop. From…

Petunias have never done much for me. If you had told me that one day, I’d fork over more than $50 for a single petunia plant, my eyes would have rolled out of my head. But this plant was special.…

Streaming posted another banner month in July, reaching multiple new milestones in the latest issue of The Gauge from Nielsen. The big headline is that streaming was responsible for 41.4 percent of all TV viewing during the month. That’s the…

If you want to get high-speed internet to people in remote communities, why not simply beam it to them from a high-flying blimp-like aircraft? That’s just one of the proposed purposes of the Sceye HAPS, which uses solar power to…

Google quietly announced something that most people aren’t going to pay any attention to, even though we all should; it’s one of the most important things the company has done. It has stopped using any plastic materials in the box…

A newly identified security threat utilizing a rarely seen DNS-based communication method has been discovered by threat analysts in an attack targeting a Taiwanese university.  The backdoor, dubbed Backdoor.Msupedge and identified by Symantec, communicates with a command-and-control (C2) server by…

GamesBeat Next is connecting the next generation of video game leaders. And you can join us, coming up October 28th and 29th in San Francisco! Take advantage of our buy one, get one free pass offer. Sale ends this Friday,…

Enlarge / Still of Procreate CEO James Cuda from a video posted to X. On Sunday, Procreate announced that it will not incorporate generative AI into its popular iPad illustration app. The decision comes in response to an ongoing backlash…

Computer programs from the 1960s are still used for bulk data processing by many organisations H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Get​ty Images Mainframe computers running code dating back to the 1960s are still vital to some banks, airlines and government departments, but the…

Once upon a time in the tail-end of the last century, there was . This bit of computer code was supposed to herald a global robot apocalypse at the stroke of midnight when 1999 became the year 2000 because of,…