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Amazon Alexa Deemed ‘Colossal Failure’ Following $10 Billion Loss
Since the beginning, Alexa has been more a novelty than an integral part of Amazon customers’ everyday lives. The realization of that discrepancy took Amazon eight years and billions of dollars.

Perseverance Rover Finds Sandstone Bedrock That Could Contain Evidence of Life
NASA reports that Perseverance has spotted an alluring bit of bedrock to add to its collection.

AMD Ryzen 7000 CPU Prices Drop Ahead of Black Friday
Retailers are cutting prices on Ryzen 7000 CPUs ahead of Black Friday. If you've been looking to build an AM5 system there are some deals to be had.

Volcanic Eruptions May Have Caused the ‘Heat Death’ of Venus
Volcanic activity lasting millions of years may have turned Venus from a watery world into the inhospitable hellscape we see today

TSA Discovers Knife Cleverly Hidden in the Guts of a Gaming Laptop
The weapon appears to have been adhered to the inside of the laptop’s bottom casing.

Australia’s First Homegrown Rocket Could Head to Space in April 2023
Australia is a bit of an outlier among developed nations in that it has never launched a rocket of its own into space.

Sony, Honda to Take on Tesla With In-Car PS5 Hardware
Entertainment is Sony’s bread and butter, and the hardware giant plans to use its expertise to set its vehicles apart from competitors’.

Microsoft Taking Windows 8.1 Off Life Support in January 2023
The company has announced the end of Windows 8.1 support will hit in January 2023, at which point anyone still running Microsoft's old OS will be unprotected from any new system vulnerabilities that may crop up.

Nvidia Finally Responds to RTX 4090 Cable-Melting Controversy
Nvidia confirms it was user error all along, but that doesn't mean it is blameless in this fiasco.

NASA: Orion Successfully Completes Lunar Flyby
It's not heading back to Earth quite yet — Orion will get into a stable lunar orbit to perform some system tests first.

EU Mulls Putting Data Centers in Space
Space: The Data Frontier.

FCC’s New Broadband Map Shows ISP Availability in Much More Detail
The map is just one tool the FCC is using to hand power back to consumers.