Beware of scammers sending live couriers to liquidate victims’ life savings
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Scammers are stepping up their game by sending couriers to the homes of elderly people and others as part of a ruse intended to rob them…
AI Can Design Totally New Proteins From Scratch—It’s Time to Talk Biosecurity
Two decades ago, engineering designer proteins was a dream. Now, thanks to AI, custom proteins are a dime a dozen. Made-to-order proteins often have specific shapes or components that give…
The Kobo Elipsa 2E, our favorite ebook reader for taking notes, is $50 off
There’s a lot to like about the Kobo Elipsa 2 compared to something like the Kindle Scribe, especially with today’s discount. | Image: Kobo As much as I like physical…
Embracer lays off 97 Eidos employees and cancels new Deus Ex game
Embracer Group, the company attempting to forge one video game publisher to rule them all, has just presided over another round of layoffs. Eidos Montreal is letting go of 97…
Blockbuster weight-loss drugs slashed from NC state plan over ballooning costs
Enlarge / Wegovy is an injectable prescription weight loss medicine that has helped people with obesity. (credit: Getty | Michael Siluk) The health plan for North Carolina state employees will…
Ryzen 8000G review: An integrated GPU that can beat a graphics card, for a price
Enlarge / The most interesting thing about AMD’s Ryzen 7 8700G CPU is the Radeon 780M GPU that’s attached to it. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Put me on the short list…
Excess Global Deaths Continue and Total Around Triple Total COVID Deaths
Researchers published in the peer-reviewed Nature in Dec 2022 estimated that there were 14.83 million excess deaths globally (2020-2022), 2.74 times more deaths than the 5.42 million reported as due…
The MSI Claw will not have a VRR screen after all
The MSI Claw gaming handheld. | Image: MSI The MSI Claw will be one of the first handheld gaming PCs with an Intel Core Ultra processor inside — but despite…
The $10 trillion benefits of overhauling our food system
Bundles freshly harvested chard. | Photo by Waltraud Grubitzsch/picture alliance via Getty Images One of the most ambitious assessments yet of our global food system calculates the health, environmental, and…
GM should just bring back the Chevy Volt
Amelia Krales General Motors’ shift from an internal combustion engine-producing company to one that makes electric motors is sputtering. EV sales are up, but growing slower than expected. The company’s…