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UK Forces Delay in Nvidia’s ARM Takeover, Citing National Security Concerns
The UK has announced an intervention into Nvidia's acquisition of ARM, on the grounds that it might pose a risk to national security.

NASA Chooses SpaceX Starship for Human Lunar Landing
After reviewing designs from Dynetics, SpaceX, and Blue Origin, NASA has decided to go with SpaceX and the Starship.

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Takes Flight on Mars
This marks the first time a human-made machine has taken flight on another planet. It's onward and upward from here.

New Horizons Reaches Deep-Space Milestone, Snaps Photo
It's only the fifth human-made object to reach a distance of 50 astronomical units. In celebration, New Horizons snapped a photo of the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Well, it tried, but Voyager 1 is still way out in the lead.

New Cryptocurrency Could Kick off an SSD Shortage
There's a new cryptocurrency that claims it'll do for storage what regular crypto has done for GPUs. Hurrah.

Memory Vendor Hints at DDR5-10000 DIMMs
There's a RAM vendor promising kits of DDR5-10000 in the future. We're curious to see if they can do it.

Researchers: 2.5 Billion Tyrannosaurus Rexes Walked the Earth
A new analysis from the University of California Berkeley estimates that there were about 20,000 adult Tyrannosaurs at any given time during the Cretaceous period. Add that up over millions of years, and there could easily have been 2.5 billion of these dinosaurs in total.

Nvidia May Reissue RTX 3060, Other Ampere GPUs to Fight Crypto Mining
Rumors suggest Nvidia will reintroduce a new version of the RTX 3060 designed to thwart cryptocurrency mining more effectively. Other GPUs may be refreshed in the same fashion.

Alienware Really Doesn’t Want You to Buy an AMD Ryzen PC
Just because Alienware sells Ryzen systems doesn't mean the company wants you to buy one. All objective evidence suggests it would rather you didn't.

There’s a Ticking Time Bomb Inside Older PlayStation Consoles
The PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 have a mandatory online check-in feature that could make life difficult for video game history preservationists down the road.

Researchers Develop Whitest Paint Ever to Combat Climate Change
Aside from being a neat technical feat, the team believes the new white paint could help address climate change by saving loads of power.

Windows Timeline Is About to Lose Cross-Device Sync
The company had to circle back just hours after posting the changelog to explain what it's doing with Timeline. While it's not completely removing the feature, it's about to become much less useful.