Diesel equipment will be replaced with hydrogen- or electric-power gear.

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Zeroday vulnerability under attack has a severity rating of 10 out of 10.

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At least five US federal agencies may have experienced cyberattacks that targeted recently discovered security flaws that give hackers free rein over vulnerable networks, the US Cybersecurity ...

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1761727

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Also, Boeing's Starliner spacecraft gets a new launch date.

Enlarge / Starship SN15 takes to the skies in early April. (credit: SpaceX)
Welcome to Edition 3.44 of the Rocket Report! I took just three days off from work last week, and when I returned to the home office, there was an absolute ...

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1765014

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It's not an instant classic like Clue, but it's fun, very solid indie fare.

Three friends trying to create their own RPG game about getting away with murder get more than they bargained for in the new black comedy, Murder Bury Win.
Three friends get more than they bargained for when they think they...

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Counterfeit products sent to Amazon warehouses are destroyed to prevent resale.

Enlarge / Amazon trailers backed into bays at a distribution center in Miami, Florida in August 2019. (credit: Getty Images | Lawrence Glass)
Amazon "seized and destroyed" over 2 million counterfeit products that ...

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1763878

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If the rumors can be believed, GPU performance will triple sometime next year.

Enlarge / RDNA 3 is expected to run on TSMC's 5nm process, and become available in late 2022 or early 2023. (credit: AMD)
According to wccftech and well-known hardware leaker @KittyYYuko, AMD's next-generation Radeon ...

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1762822

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"Honor. That is why a knight does what he does."

Dev Patel stars as Sir Gawain in the forthcoming epic medieval fantasy film, The Green Knight.
An ambitious young knight of King Arthur's Round Table makes an ill-advised bargain and embarks on a personal quest in the new trailer forThe Green Knight...

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1764204

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Also announced: a 20,000 mAh portable charger for users' various devices.

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Lenovo is launching a new line of products under the brand name "Lenovo Go," starting with a wireless-charging portable mouse and a portable battery pack with a ...

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Follows Twitter's effort to make you read the news before you share it.

Enlarge / Before you tweet, you might be asked if you meant to be so rude. (credit: Getty Images / Sam Machkovech)
Want to know exactly what Twitter's fleet of text-combing, dictionary-parsing bots defines as "mean"? Starting ...

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1762846

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After four landing failures, here's hoping the fifth time is the charm.

Enlarge / Engine cutoff, with SN11 entering its bellyflop maneuver, on March 30, 2021. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann)
SpaceX has received permission from the US Federal Aviation Administration to launch its latest Starship ...

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Teardown shows Apple designed the AirTag around a big voice coil speaker.

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Apple recently jumped into the thing-tracking market with the AirTag, a small coin cell battery-powered Bluetooth device that you can attach to your stuff and ping ...

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1761935

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19% increase disproves Pai's claim of "cheaper Internet access to all Americans."

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The average US home-Internet bill increased 19 percent during the first three years of the Trump administration, disproving former Federal Communications Commission Chairman ...

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1763472

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Emails entered into Epic Games lawsuit show execs contradicting Apple talking points.

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In September 2015, Apple managers had a dilemma on their hands: should, or should they not, notify 128 million iPhone users of what remains the worst mass iOS compromise on record? ...

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In gaming since L4D2, fan campaigns have even pressured devs to release entirely new endings.

Enlarge / Bill looks over the boycott's corpse to determine if it's still a threat... The following piece, originally published in late 2009, looks back at that year's somewhat quixotic attempted boycott ...

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"I would just like to say, quite frankly, y'all are changing the world."

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After a little more than 167 days in space, and zipping through 2,688 orbits around the planet, Crew Dragon Resilience dropped into a darkened Gulf of Mexico early on ...

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1761816

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"Monopolies tend to have a lot of control, not just over consumers, but also over politics."

Enlarge / Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) (credit: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
To promote her new book, Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age, Sen. Amy ...

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1763506

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Investment follows millions more that produced the iPhone 12's ceramic shield.

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Apple has invested an additional $45 million in US-based Corning Incorporated, the maker of Gorilla Glass, the companies announced today.
A news release from ...

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1763824

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Exynos with an AMD GPU is coming for laptops, but maybe not phones?

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Samsung is planning big things for the next release of its Exynos system on a chip. The company has already promised that the "next generation" of its Exynos SoC will feature a GPU from AMD...

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1764029

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Closure prompted panic buying, price hikes, and other disruptions in East Coast states.

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Colonial Pipeline said it restarted operations on Wednesday afternoon after a five-day outage brought on by a ransomware attack caused gasoline shortages and panic buying in East ...

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Given that it's meant to be the basis for a lunar lander, landing it is good.

Enlarge / Starship SN15 descending back to Texas under two of its three upgraded raptor engines. Successful landing! (credit: TrevorMahlmann)
By now many readers are familiar with SpaceX's Starship tests. The rocket ...

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If you're already in WoW Classic, you have a decision to make starting May 18.

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After World of WarCraft successfully relaunched its original, "vanilla" client in 2019, fans began wondering whether the WoW Classic ...

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Not even Smallville could combine YA drama and superhero DNA this well.

The trailer for Amazon's Invincible.
The last few years have been great for viewers who enjoy standard-issue CW teen dramas (Gossip Girl forever!) but want a little something extra mixed in. Bridgerton blends in period piece ...

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The FAA has finally started allowing commercial flights beyond the line of sight.

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Kroger, one of America's biggest grocery chains, is beginning to test a drone-delivery service in the Cincinnati area. Starting this week, Kroger will begin testing deliveries near the ...

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Suburban ride-hailing is a lousy business to be in.

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Last October, Waymo did something remarkable: the company launched a fully driverless commercial taxi service called Waymo One. Customers in a 50-square-mile corner of suburban Phoenix can now ...

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Some of the first data on user behavior exceeds advertisers' worst fears.

Enlarge / The Facebook iPhone app asks for permission to track the user in this early mock-up of the prompt made by Apple. (credit: Apple)
It seems that in the United States at least, app developers and advertisers who rely ...

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1763464

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Epic says it's "suing for change." Apple says Epic "just doesn't want to pay."

Enlarge / Artist's conception of what Apple and Epic's lawyers did to each other in the courtroom today. (credit: Epic Games)
In leading off the opening arguments in Epic's long-anticipated bench trial against Apple, ...

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The already planned 5 nm Arizona plant may be joined by a second, 3 nm plant.

Enlarge / In a few years, Phoenix residents will be seeing a lot more of this logo. (credit: SOPA Images)
Reuters reports that TSMCTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the chip foundry making advanced processors ...

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1765205

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His most powerful microscope holds a lens likely made with Robert Hooke's 1678 recipe

Enlarge / First microscope by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. (credit: Tetra Images/Getty)
In the late 17th century, a Dutch draper and self-taught scientist named Antonie van Leeuwenhoekearned renown for building some ...

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"I think her approach to this is just going to be to get the job done."

Enlarge / Vice President Kamala Harris called NASA astronaut Victor Glover on the International Space Station in February. (credit: NASA)
The National Space Council will continue operations under the Biden administration, and ...

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US security official was reportedly sickened outside the White House last year.

Enlarge / The White House, the South Lawn, and part of the Ellipse are seen from the observation deck of the Washington Monument on October 1, 2014, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty | Chip Somodevilla )
At least two ...

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