This white dwarf star has two “faces”
Astronomers have discovered an unusual blue-tinted white dwarf star with two distinct “faces”: one side is hydrogen and the other side is helium, according to a new paper published in…
Dealmaster: Apple gear, Lenovo laptops, and more
Enlarge / Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11, which not-confusingly-at-all feature 13th-generation Intel Core processors. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) As always, the web is loaded today with good deals on gadgets,…
Millions of servers inside data centers imperiled by flaws in AMI BMC firmware
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Two years ago, ransomware crooks breached hardware-maker Gigabyte and dumped more than 112 gigabytes of data that included information from some of its most important supply-chain…
ChatGPT can now remember who you are and what you want
Image: The Verge The newest feature of ChatGPT is designed to help you type a little less. It’s called “custom instructions,” and it gives you a place to tell your…
Neopets is moving into a ‘new era’ — and leaving NFTs and the metaverse behind
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge It might be time to log into your Neopets account again. Neopets, a virtual pet website that first launched in 1999, certainly isn’t…
Meta tells news publishers to talk to the hand
Enlarge / A worker picks up trash in front of the new logo in front of Meta’s headquarters on October 28, 2021, in Menlo Park, Calif. (credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)…
Tesla revenue grows to $25 billion, but margin shrinks in Q2 2023
Enlarge (credit: Getty / Aurich) Tesla reported strong sales and revenues for the second quarter of 2023. The automaker built 479,700 electric vehicles during the period, delivering 466,140. Selling those…
Once again, the US public says NASA should prioritize asteroid defense
Enlarge / Artist’s illustration shows the ejection of a cloud of debris after NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with the asteroid Dimorphos. (credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser) The Pew Research Center published the…
Google’s latest price hike is for YouTube Premium, now $13.99 per month
Enlarge (credit: Jericho / Ron Amadeo) Google has a nasty surprise for YouTube Premium subscribers: a price increase. The price is going up $2 for a single-person subscription in the…
Google demos “unsettling” tool to help journalists write the news
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “robot journalist.” (credit: Midjourney) Google has been developing tools aimed at helping journalists write news articles, reports The New York Times and Reuters.…