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Could King Tut’s Tomb Be Hiding an Ancient Queen?

Human History Margherita Bassi Sep 18

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Google’s Gemini Hacked Three Companies in May, and It’s Only Admitting That Now

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Movies Germain Lussier Sep 18

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Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence Ece Yildirim Sep 20

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Artificial Intelligence Kyle Torpey Sep 20

You’ll Never Guess What Trump Wants to Rename Now

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl Sep 19

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Suno’s Latest AI Model Got Some Label Support. But Not All of Them

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The Doomsday Warnings AI CEOs Gave When They First Founded Their Companies

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Kyle Torpey Sep 20

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Josh Hawley Wants to Haul Flock CEO’s Ass in Front of the Senate Next Week

Matt Novak Sep 18

Elon Musk Reportedly Seeking Customer Data From Dead Startups to Train AI

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Mastercard Is Giving AI Agents Virtual Cards to Handle Your Shopping

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Cryptocurrencies

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The Crypto Industry Wasn’t Able to Buy Congress After All

Cryptocurrencies Kyle Torpey Sep 16

Bitcoin’s Network Hashrate Is 50% Below Trend as Miners Shift to AI

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Crypto’s Latest Stablecoin Innovation? Chargebacks.

Kyle Torpey Sep 14

‘White Hat’ Liquid Network Crypto Hackers Are Now Grandstanding and Demanding a 10% Bounty

Kyle Torpey Sep 10

Hunter Biden’s Crypto Memecoin Launch Went Even Worse Than Predicted

Kyle Torpey Sep 9

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Are Truckers Really Going on Strike Oct. 1?

Matt Novak Sep 18

NHTSA Orders Tesla to Prove Its Cybercab Meets Federal Safety Standards

Bruce Gil Sep 16

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You Really Should Book Your Holiday Flights Right Now

Matt Novak Sep 14

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Tom McKay Sep 10

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Ford’s China Ties Spark a Very Public Fight With the Trump Administration

Bruce Gil Sep 9

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With longer battery life, improved performance, and even better cameras, Apple's latest iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max just steamroll its premium Android competitors.

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Maingear Zero (2026) Review: PC Gaming Bliss With a Price Tag to Make You Cry

Desktops Kyle Barr Sep 13

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The Best Tech to Level Up Summer 2026

Cyber Essentials

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Thank ‘Lanterns’ for That DC Cameo in ‘Stuart Fails to Save the Universe’

Weird time when 'Stuart Fails to Save the Universe' manages to debut a popular DC hero well before the actual movies do.

Television Justin Carter Sep 20

New Report Reveals How and Why TV Shows Are Dying

Television Justin Carter Sep 20

Open Channel: What’d You Think of ‘Resident Evil’?

Movies Justin Carter Sep 20

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Movies

Paramount Sets Dates for ‘Hearts Eyes’ and ‘Crawl’ Sequels

Paramount hopes to have a movie for everyone, and that includes making 'Crawl' and 'Heart Eyes' into franchises.

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Science

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How Close Are We to Superconductors That Are Actually Practical?

For decades, physicists have used superconductors to explore the weirdest aspects of reality. But they always need to be so cold?

Physics & Chemistry Gayoung Lee Sep 19

Could King Tut’s Tomb Be Hiding an Ancient Queen?

Human History Margherita Bassi Sep 18

A Fossil Capybara Tooth Suggests the Atacama Desert Was Once Surprisingly Wet

Biology Ed Cara Sep 18

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SpaceX Is Retiring Crew Dragon, Forcing NASA to Bet Big on Boeing’s Troubled Starliner

Space & Spaceflight Ellyn Lapointe Sep 18

While Issuing Warnings About AI-Made Bioweapons, Anthropic Quietly Set Up an AI-Run, Robot-Operated Biology Lab Here in the US

Biology Matthew Phelan Sep 18

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Physics & Chemistry

The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting a Major Upgrade. But What Would Actually Surprise Physicists?

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