Popular Game Valorant Will Start Listening To Your Voice Chat Next Month

Riot Games will begin background evaluation of recorded in-game voice communications on July 13th in North America, in English. In a brief s...

Why Inflation Looks Likely To Stay Above the Pre-Pandemic Norm

Even as supply-chain snarls ease, wage growth and price expectations are ticking up. The Economist: The bad news on inflation just keeps com...

Supreme Court rejects Apple’s bid to continue fighting over two Qualcomm patents

The Supreme Court declined Apple’s bid ( pdf ) for a hearing over two Qualcomm patents (US Patent No. 7,844,037 and US Patent No. 8,683,362...

Facebook is Bombarding Cancer Patients With Ads For Unproven Treatments

Clinics offering debunked cancer treatments are still allowed to advertise, despite the company's stated efforts to control medical misi...

Satellites are Sinking Faster Toward Earth. Scientists Blame Solar Wind

"In late 2021, operators of the European Space Agency's Swarm constellation noticed something worrying," reports Space.com. &q...

Tim Berners-Lee Skeptical of Web3, Touts Decentralized Internet Without Blockchain

Sir Tim Berners-Lee "is skeptical about a blockchain-based internet," reports the Next Web. Instead, they describe his new vision ...

How China Hopes to Fly Mars Samples to Earth Two Years Before NASA and ESA

"China's Mars sample return mission aims to collect samples from the Red Planet and deliver them to Earth in 2031, or two years ahe...