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Chinese Firm Claims It Scans Workers’ Brainwaves to Boost Earnings
A Chinese firm is claiming to have made over $300 million by monitoring the brainwaves of its 40,000+ employees at all times.

CPU Utilization Is Wrong on PCs, and Getting Worse Every Year
The way we measure CPU utilization isn't accurate — and it's getting worse each year.

NASA’s InSight Mars Mission Launches Friday
The InSight lander will delve deep into the interior of Mars, searching for clues to its past, present, and future.

Atari VCS Pre-Orders Start May 30, but What the Hell Are You Buying?
Atari has announced a new crowdfunding campaign for its Atari VCS, set to go live on May 30 — but it needs to explain why consumers are supposed to buy this device in the first place.

FTC Promises Legal Action if Warranty-Voiding Stickers Aren’t Fixed Soon
The FTC gave the companies 30 days to comply with the law or the agency would pursue "legal action."

Intel Kills Kaby Lake-X Less Than a Year After Launch
Intel is cancelling its Kaby Lake-X family less than a year after launching it. Blame chips like the Core i7-8700K for wrecking the market — with a bit of help from AMD.

2019 Toyota Corolla Hatchback Review: More Tech, More Vroom, Less Room
Toyota Safety Sense 2.0 adds "lane trace assist." Translation: sort of self-driving, but you have to keep your hands on the wheel. Another step forward for safety standard in low-cost cars.

The 2016 MacBook Pro Keyboard May Fail Twice As Often As Older Models
In 2014 and 2015 models, the rate of keyboard failure for serviced laptops was 5.6 percent and 6 percent, respectively. In 2016, the rate shot up to 11.8 percent.

Dimwit Brit Busted for Auto-Piloting Tesla From the Passenger Seat
He put the car in Autopilot, then climbed into the passenger seat. Now banned from driving, Patel says he was “the unlucky one who got caught.”

How AI Is Bringing the Vatican Secret Archives Into the Light of Day
A new AI translation project is turning the contents of the Vatican Secret Archives into text that the general public may one day be able to read. The advance could make hundreds of years of Catholic Church history directly accessible to researchers.

Google Adds Nvidia Volta to Its Cloud Platforms
Google is extending its GPU offerings to Nvidia's Volta and deploying the GPU across a wider range of engines.

Water-Based Battery Could Boost Solar and Wind Power
The battery is based on manganese-hydrogen technology, but the first incarnation is admittedly not very impressive. It's about three inches tall and outputs a mere 20 milliwatts of power.