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Men use "vocal fry" more than women, counter to stereotype
14 May 2026 @ 9:32 pm
Study suggests "the bias is real but socially constructed, rather than grounded in how women actually sound."
Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes
14 May 2026 @ 9:02 pm
One little mystery—solved.
Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves
14 May 2026 @ 7:27 pm
People confide almost everything to their phones.
Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
14 May 2026 @ 7:17 pm
Town’s 49,000 California residents compete with Nevada data centers for energy.
Over a year later, AMD is bringing improved FSR 4 upscaling to its older GPUs
14 May 2026 @ 6:55 pm
FSR 4.1 running on RDNA3 or RDNA2 GPUs may take a bigger performance hit.
Judge probes whether Musk settlement with Trump admin is tainted by corruption
14 May 2026 @ 6:45 pm
Trump admin wants to let Musk pay $1.5M fine to settle $150 million Twitter suit.
Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections
14 May 2026 @ 6:32 pm
It's not entirely clear how the exploit works. Microsoft says it's investigating.
Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds
14 May 2026 @ 5:28 pm
Made-up therapy referrals, incorrect prescriptions among the common mistakes.
Vaporware or not? Aptera assembles its first five validation models.
14 May 2026 @ 5:06 pm
The three-wheel, two-seat EV has been in development since 2006.
Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day
14 May 2026 @ 4:47 pm
Layoffs are "not a savings-driven restructure," CFO says.