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Mercedes-Benz Enters Formula E Electric Racing This Year
Mercedes-Benz Enters Formula E Electric Racing This Year

Win on Sunday, sell EVs on Monday: Major automakers flock to Formula E racing. Mercedes-Benz will use the "EQ" to brand its EVs and its Formula E racers.

Hands on With AirMagic, a One-Click Fix for Your Drone Photos
Hands on With AirMagic, a One-Click Fix for Your Drone Photos

Drone photography is really fun, but shooting images usually requires post-processing for best results. Skylum is aiming to change that with AirMagic. We go hands on to see how well it works.

The GPU Market Got Pulverized in the Back Half of 2018
The GPU Market Got Pulverized in the Back Half of 2018

The GPU market took a hammering in the back half of last year. It may not be over yet.

Microsoft’s Chromium Edge Browser Leaks Remind Us of Something
Microsoft’s Chromium Edge Browser Leaks Remind Us of Something

Microsoft has admitted that people don't want to use Edge. Now we've gotten our first glimpse of its new Chromium-based browser, and shockingly, it looks like a Microsoft-y version of Chrome.

Sony Now Offering Refunds on Anthem as Crash Reports Spread to Xbox One
Sony Now Offering Refunds on Anthem as Crash Reports Spread to Xbox One

BioWare's latest game, Anthem, has progressed from being an uneven experience to crashing and even bricking (in rare cases) PS4's. Sony is offering refunds and the instability seems to also exist on Xbox One.

Investigators Find QuadrigaCX Crypto Wallets Were Emptied Before CEO’s Death
Investigators Find QuadrigaCX Crypto Wallets Were Emptied Before CEO’s Death

After examining data provided by the exchange, auditor Ernst & Young reports that the exchange's wallets were emptied months before the founder's death.

OpenAI Launches Neural MMO to Train AI in Complex, Open-World Environments
OpenAI Launches Neural MMO to Train AI in Complex, Open-World Environments

OpenAI has released Neural MMO, a new way for your AI assistant to spend as much time playing games as you do. Alright, not so much. It's a way to teach them to spend as much time playing games as you do.

Facebook Uses 2FA Phone Numbers to Help Other Users Find You
Facebook Uses 2FA Phone Numbers to Help Other Users Find You

Facebook has once again been caught abusing two-factor authentication for purposes beyond security. And once again, you can't stop it. If Facebook was a person who had treated any single individual as egregiously as the company has treated all of us collectively it would be in jail already.

Quantum Computing Can Soon Help Secure the Power Grid
Quantum Computing Can Soon Help Secure the Power Grid

Quantum Computing is still in its infancy but holds great promises for solving one of the trickiest issues in cryptography — the secure exchange of keys. Two National Labs have begun demonstrating how that can help secure the US power grid against hackers.

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em: Thunderbolt 3 to Be Rebranded as USB4, Coming 2021
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em: Thunderbolt 3 to Be Rebranded as USB4, Coming 2021

Intel and the USB-IF have joined forces. Thunderbolt 3 will be the basis for the USB4 standard, expected in ~2021.

MIT’s Mini Cheetah Robot Can Do Backflips
MIT’s Mini Cheetah Robot Can Do Backflips

Creating a nigh-unstoppable robot seems like a mistake, but luckily the new cheetah is small and (currently) harmless.

Passing Stars May Have Kept a Distant Alien World Tethered to Its Sun
Passing Stars May Have Kept a Distant Alien World Tethered to Its Sun

A near-miss with a pair of binary stars may have kept an exoplanet tethered to its primary star rather than rocketing out into the void.