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Nathan Mattise AUSTIN, Texas—More than three months have passed since a warrant (PDF) initially went out for Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson’s arrest. That document detailed Wilson’s alleged sexual assault against a female “child younger than 17 years of age” whom he reportedly solicited through the website SugarDaddyMeet.com. Last Friday, December 28, the State of …

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Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook. (credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) The beginning of 2019 isn’t proving to be as fruitful as Apple anticipated. CEO Tim Cook released a letter to investors yesterday that revised the company’s guidance for its Q1 2019 performance. Apple now expects a minimum of $84 billion in revenue, down from the …

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Enlarge / The two leading PC VR headsets, the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, are still growing in use for PC gamers. But how much? (credit: Kyle Orland) As consumer-grade virtual reality enters its fourth calendar year in 2019, it seems like a good time to check in once again on how the technology is …

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Enlarge / China released this image of the lunar surface taken by the Chang’e-4 spacecraft. (credit: Xinhua) Declaring that it has opened a new chapter in lunar exploration, the China National Space Administration announced late Monday night that its Chang’e-4 lander had safely set down on the far side of the Moon. No spacecraft has …

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Fortnite.”> Enlarge / Gaming, circa 1946, may have been easier for older players when compared to present-day rounds of Fortnite. (credit: Getty Images / Archive Images) Despite a wider variety than ever before, video games don’t have the same effect on me as they used to. That might not sound like a problem to some …

Tales of an aging gamer: Why don’t I pick up a controller as often as I used to? Read More »

Enlarge A source speaking to Reuters on Wednesday said that General Motors sold its 200,000th electric vehicle (EV) in Q4 2018, triggering a 15-month phaseout of the Federal Tax Credit that has benefitted GM’s EV buyers for years. GM is expected to announce this information during its Q4 2018 financial call on Thursday. The company indicated …

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NASA YV/YouTube After the New Horizons mission zoomed by the then-unknown Ultima Thule object in the outer Solar System early on New Year’s Day, the spacecraft began returning data to Earth via a deep-space network. Although only about 1 percent of that data is now on the ground, scientists were able to share some top-line …

NASA probe finds a snowman-shaped relic of the early Solar System Read More »

Enlarge / The Netflix homepage—iPhone and iPad users will have to go here to sign up for the streaming video service. (credit: Netflix) Netflix will no longer offer in-app subscription purchases for users of iOS devices like iPhones and iPads, VentureBeat reports. The change cuts off a substantial amount of revenue for Apple at a …

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Enlarge / Ian Read, chairman and CEO of Pfizer Inc. spoke with President Trump last July about pausing drug price hikes. Pfizer now plans to increase prices of 41 of its drugs later this month. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) More than three dozen drug companies welcomed the new year with sweeping price hikes on hundreds …

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Enlarge / Who doesn’t love some new Windows? (credit: Peter Bright / Flickr) About three and a half years after its release, Windows 10 seems to have convincingly passed Windows 7 in usage share. Online stat-tracking service Net Market Share puts Windows 10 at 39.22 percent of usage versus 36.90 percent for Windows 7. Web-based …

Windows 10 creeps past Windows 7 usage, latest update barely used Read More »