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Apple sets sights on services as iPhone revenue continues to fall

Zero-day attackers deliver a double dose of ransomware—no clicking required

Ajit Pai-proposed upgrade to 25Mbps starts paying off for rural ISPs

Bloomberg alleges Huawei routers and network gear are backdoored

Dealmaster: The latest 9.7-inch iPad is only $250 today

Oculus Quest review: 2019’s best new gaming system is wireless, affordable VR

High cost, lack of support spell trouble for 2024 Moon landing plan

Valve Index reveal: The best of VR’s first generation—but is it worth $999?

Genes from an extinct “ghost ape” live on in modern bonobos

Girl’s $143,000 bill for snakebite treatment reveals antivenin price gouging

Impact that formed the Moon might have splashed into Earth’s magma ocean

Report: Tesla to slash solar panel prices by 38% to stymie market share loss

A post-action analysis of GoT’s Battle of Winterfell—through a glass, darkly

Google Pixel 3 is a sales disappointment, sells less than the Pixel 2

Garmin revamps entire Forerunner family, new smartwatches start at $199

Bosch teams up with PowerCell to bring down the cost of fuel cells

Minecraft creator Notch unwelcome at 10th anniversary due to online conduct

The leading “stablecoin” is no longer backed by $1 for every coin

Id Software’s open source shooters get ported to Apple’s iOS, tvOS

SpaceX cuts broadband-satellite altitude in half to prevent space debris

KSC apparently has told its workers they’ll be fired for taking rocket photos

Probable Russian Navy covert camera whale discovered by Norwegians

Firefly has successfully tested the upper stage of its Alpha rocket

You can use this website to help pick new tires—here’s how it tests them

Samsung embraces vertical videos with a $16,000 vertical TV

With its latest battle, Game of Thrones solidifies its seat on TV’s VFX throne

Coding without a keystroke: The hands-free creation of a full video game

The Orville’s S2 finale epitomizes all that’s great about this series

Boys, the wealthy, and Canadians (?) talk the most BS

Fear the Man in the Middle? This company wants to sell quantum key distribution

The sim swap the US isn’t using

1,550 years ago, someone ate a rattlesnake whole—and we have poo to prove it

Some good news for far-future sea level rise

The antibiotics industry is broken—but there’s a fix

Elon Musk reaches settlement in SEC tweet battle

Intel stockpiling 10nm chips, warns that 14nm shortages will continue

After White House stop, Twitter CEO calls congresswoman about death threats

Comcast usage soars 34% to 200GB a month, pushing users closer to data cap

Apple reportedly discussed buying Intel’s smartphone-modem chip business

Systems with small disks won’t be able to install Windows 10 May 2019 update

Trump administration puts offshore drilling expansion in Arctic, Atlantic on ice

Fiber-guided atoms preserve quantum states—clocks, sensors to come

NASA to perform key test of the SLS rocket, necessitating a delay in its launch

What to know about measles in the US as case count breaks record

Cox Internet now charges $15 extra for faster access to online game servers

Blackmagic eGPU Pro mini-review: Quiet, fast, and extremely expensive—like a Mac

Rocket Report: Complex Falcon Heavy flight, Mars 2033, not happening

Did a vigilante ROM leaker go too far to “preserve” a lost Atari ROM?

Rocket Report: Complex Falcon Heavy flight, Mars 2033 not happening

The SIM Swap Fix That the US Isn't Using

Bizarre New Materials Could Make Bendy Phones That Work

How the Blockchain Could Protect California's Aquifer

Amazon slices one-day prices for Nespresso Coffee and Espresso Machine bundles

Sony says its new PlayStation is more than a year away

Xiaomi has found a way to make the smartphone notch even uglier

Raytheon is moving to bridge the UK's cyber-skills gap with new apprenticeships

Razer BlackWidow Elite review: Finally, Razer's flagship keyboard gets media controls

After a lost Atari ROM leaks, retro fans ask: Was it “stolen”?

Google Inbox’s co-creator wants to fix Gmail with a new Chrome extension

Graphics cards ranked, from fastest to slowest

Honeywell Home T9 Smart Thermostat review: Remote sensors are the star attraction here

Sony: PlayStation 5 won’t launch in the next 12 months

Slack embraces email to bridge chat app gap

Flashback Friday: Too smart for its own good

Chinese University Tests Fully Recoverable Hypersonic Winged Rocket