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Scientists Fear They Will Be Priced Out After Dinosaur Sells for $2.36 Million
Scientists Fear They Will Be Priced Out After Dinosaur Sells for $2.36 Million

A Wyoming landowner discovered a remarkably intact dinosaur fossil back in 2013, and the specimen has now sold at auction for $2.36 million.

Reliving Atari at the Dawn of Console Gaming
Reliving Atari at the Dawn of Console Gaming

The Atari 2600 singlehandedly introduced home video games to the masses. A new book by Editor-in-Chief Jamie Lendino shows how today’s game industry can be traced entirely to this seminal 1977 console.

Hell Freezes Over: Apple Allows Waze, Other Grown-Up Navigation Apps in CarPlay
Hell Freezes Over: Apple Allows Waze, Other Grown-Up Navigation Apps in CarPlay

A newer, user-friendlier Apple will allow mapping software to run on your car. You'll need to upgrade to iOS 12 this fall when it ships; then you'll have Waze, Google Maps, and others available on your center stack display.

We May Not Need ‘Planet 9’ to Explain Unusual Orbits in Outer Solar System
We May Not Need ‘Planet 9’ to Explain Unusual Orbits in Outer Solar System

For the past few years, scientists have been trying to find a hypothetical Planet 9 that may exist outside our known solar system based on the very unusual orbits of certain dwarf planets. But those orbits might not require a Planet 9 to explain.

Lenovo Lied About the Design and Features of Its New Z5 Phone
Lenovo Lied About the Design and Features of Its New Z5 Phone

Lenovo misrepresented the design of its new "flagship," the Z5. The company claimed the phone had multiple features it doesn't possess.

NASA Extends Juno Mission for at Least Three Years
NASA Extends Juno Mission for at Least Three Years

NASA’s Juno probe has been studying Jupiter for almost two years, but the mission has not gone exactly to plan. It’s taking Juno longer than NASA expected to map the gas giant, and operations were scheduled to cease this summer. Luckily, NASA has secured an additional $1 billion in funding to extend the mission for…

The Pentagon Is Building an AI to Find Secret Nuclear Missiles
The Pentagon Is Building an AI to Find Secret Nuclear Missiles

The initiative is part of a program intended to determine how artificial intelligence might be used to keep America safe against the threat of nuclear attack.

Intel Announces Limited Edition Core i7-8086K, New 28-Core CPU
Intel Announces Limited Edition Core i7-8086K, New 28-Core CPU

Intel has announced two new CPUs at Computex, including a limited number of Core i7-8086K CPUs to be auctioned off in a sweepstakes and an unknown 28-core chip with a max turbo of 5GHz.

Asus Shows Off ‘Precog’ Laptop With Second Screen for Keyboard
Asus Shows Off ‘Precog’ Laptop With Second Screen for Keyboard

Asus showed up to Computex this year with some new notebook designs, but surely the wildest of the lot is the Precog dual-screen laptop.

MIT Creates Wireless Power System For Medical Implants
MIT Creates Wireless Power System For Medical Implants

Researchers from MIT have developed a new system called In Vivo Networking (IVN) that could allow powerful medical devices to operate inside the body while getting power from radio waves.

Nvidia’s Jetson Xavier Stuffs Volta Performance Into Tiny Form Factor
Nvidia’s Jetson Xavier Stuffs Volta Performance Into Tiny Form Factor

Nvidia's Jetson Xavier board is a major step forward for the company's efforts to build robust AI accelerators at all TDP levels.

MIT Creates AI-Powered Psychopath Called ‘Norman’
MIT Creates AI-Powered Psychopath Called ‘Norman’

Artificial intelligence researchers have thus far attempted to make well-rounded algorithms that can be helpful to humanity. However, a team from MIT has undertaken a project to do the exact opposite.