A Program for Cheaper Internet for Low-Income Americans Launches Today
Starting today, eligible US residents can apply for help with their internet bills under the new Affordable Connectivity Program. The progra...
CES 2022 will close a day early because of COVID concerns
Amelia Holowaty Krales CES has dropped the last day of its 2022 tech conference in Las Vegas, and the show will now end on January 7th, t...
Ask Slashdot: New Year's Resolution For Tech Companies?
theodp writes: Slashdot has surveyed personal New Year's resolutions in the past. So this year, how about coming up with a list of New Y...
Biden administration will continue ISS cooperation through 2030
The US will continue to work with other countries’ space programs on the International Space Station through 2030, NASA announced today . T...
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Books You Liked Reading This Year?
What are some books that you read this year that you enjoyed reading? Doesn't have to be those that released this year -- though if poss...
Intel Demos Lightning Fast 13.8 GBps PCIe 5.0 SSD with Alder Lake
Intel has demonstrated how its Core i9-12900K Alder Lake processor can work with Samsung's recently announced PM1743 PCIe 5.0 x4 SSD. Th...
Colorado fires close out a year of disastrous drought
Fires continue to burn into the evening in neighborhoods on December 30, 2021 in Louisville, Colorado. | Photo by Helen H. Richardson/Media...
Intel and Samsung’s new demo shows how blisteringly fast a PCIe 5.0 SSD setup will be
Image: Samsung PCIe 5.0 SSDs have already started to get announced ahead of CES 2022, with Samsung and Adata teasing early hardware that...
Plans to capture CO2 from coal plants wasted federal dollars, watchdog says
Water vapor rises from the NRG Energy Inc. WA Parish generating station in Thompsons, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. The plant wa...
Gov. Parson Says He Believes Prosecutor Will Bring Charges Against Reporter For Using 'View Source'
Gov. Mike Parson this week expressed his opinion the Cole County prosecuting attorney would bring charges in the case of a Post-Dispatch rep...
Two NFT copycats are fighting over which is the real fake Bored Ape Yacht Club
A pair of non-fungible token projects are testing the boundary between plagiarism and parody. Digital marketplace OpenSea has banned the PH...
'Critical' Polygon Bug Put $24 Billion in Tokens at Risk Until Recent Hard Fork
Ethereum scaling project Polygon was at risk of losing nearly all of its MATIC tokens until it upgraded its network earlier this month. From...
Google pulls back the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro December update to fix dropped calls
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales The rollout of the first major update for Google’s Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro has been slow and plagued by ...
Wondercise Studio wants to replace Zoom for connected fitness classes
Wondercise Studio is a mish-mash of a social media network and Apple Fitness Plus. | Image: Wondercise At CES 2022, Wondercise is lookin...
Tom Brady says the next sideline Surface he yeets will cost him
Tom Brady #12 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers watches from the sidelines during the 2nd quarter of the game against the New Orleans Saints | P...
A vehicle burned at Canoo’s headquarters after a battery test
Image: Canoo A vehicle at EV startup Canoo burned on August 24th after lithium-ion batteries left inside the car started a fire. The loca...
Here are the best Kindle deals right now
The Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition is one of many e-readers currently available as part of a discounted bundle at Amazon. | Photo by ...
The best after-Christmas deals from Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and more
Sony’s WF-1000XM4, the best true wireless earbuds you can buy, are still on sale for $248. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Whether yo...
The Xiaomi 12 Pro’s main camera is absolutely massive
Even for Xiaomi, the 12 and 12 Pro offer huge main camera modules. | Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi is at it again — putting another fantastically...
James Webb Space Telescope’s fuel expected to last more than 10 years
james webb space telescope Following the revolutionary and successful launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, into space on C...
Scientists Find Unexpected Trove of Life Forms Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf
A team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany has discovered a whopping 77 seafloor-dwelling species beneath an Antarct...
Attackers in China Using Open-source Log4j Flaw
A group of Chinese attackers has been using the massive vulnerability in Log4j, common piece of open-source code, to target a large academic...
Fortnite told players they ‘don’t have permission to play’ just before the servers went offline
Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images We have bad news if you’re on winter break and hope to play some Fortnite ...
SpaceX Will Take Humans To Mars Within 10 Years, Elon Musk Predicts
Elon Musk predicted this week that SpaceX will be able to fly humans to Mars within the next 10 years. From a report: Musk made the bold pre...
Japan Aims To Put a Person on the Moon by Late 2020s
Japan revised the schedule of its space exploration plans on Tuesday, aiming to put a Japanese person on the moon by the latter half of the ...
LastPass Says It Didn't Leak Your Password
Did LastPass get hacked? Gizmodo: Some users of the popular password manager recently received emails from the company warning them of suspi...
Tumblr goes overboard censoring tags on iOS to comply with Apple’s guidelines
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An update to Tumblr’s iOS app censors a long list of tags to comply with Apple’s strict safety ...
Winter Storms Are Breaking Snow and Temperature Records
Winter storms sweeping parts of the Western U.S. and the Pacific Northwest have brought heavy snow and record low temperatures in some areas...
Samsung’s Family Hub smart fridge gets a colorful new look
Samsung’s Family Hub smart fridge will now be part of its colorful, customizable Bespoke line. | Image: Samsung The smart fridge has lon...
Tumblr Goes Overboard Censoring Tags on iOS To Comply With Apple's Guidelines
An update to Tumblr's iOS app censors a long list of tags to comply with Apple's strict safety guidelines. From a report: The platfo...
Was 2021 the Worst Year Ever for Games?
Covid-19's knock-on effects have delayed development so much that most games we thought we'd be playing now have drifted into next y...
Nintendo Wins High Court Injunction to Block Access to Pirated Switch ROMs
An anonymous reader shares a report: In an effort to restrict access to pirated ROMs illegally made available for its Switch console, Ninten...
The Batman’s latest trailer introduces the Riddler as a FaceTime troll
Image by Warner Bros. Pictures A new trailer for The Batman gives us a glimpse at Catwoman’s “thing” for stray cats and the Riddler’s af...
More Than 1,200 Phishing Toolkits Capable of Intercepting 2FA Detected in the Wild
A team of academics said it found more than 1,200 phishing toolkits deployed in the wild that are capable of intercepting and allowing cyber...
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