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03 Apr

The White House tells NASA to create a new time zone for the Moon

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On Tuesday, The White House published a policy memo directing NASA to create a new time standard for the Moon by 2026. Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) will establish an official time reference to help guide future lunar missions. It arrives as a 21st-century space race emerges between (at least) the US, China, Japan, India and Russia. The memo directs NASA…

03 Apr

Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 N eN1 Cup car brings extreme EV performance to the track

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The Hyundai Ioniq 5 N is one of the most extreme EVs you can buy at the moment. With over 600 horsepower delivered to all four wheels, plus a plethora of drive modes that help you do everything from circuit racing to drifting, it's a truly wild ride. But it's about to get even wilder. Meet the new Hyundai Ioniq…

03 Apr

Prepare for more red pill memes: a fifth Matrix movie is happening

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There’s another Matrix movie in the works. Warner Bros. just greenlit a fifth installment of the saga, as reported by Deadline. However, neither Lana Wachowski or Lilly Wachowski will be handling directing duties. That honor falls to Drew Goddard, who adapted The Martian into a screenplay and directed the criminally underrated Cabin in the Woods. He's also writing the script. …

03 Apr

The FCC will vote to restore net neutrality later this month

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to vote to restore net neutrality later this month. With Democrats finally holding an FCC majority in the final year of President Biden’s first term, the agency can fulfill a 2021 executive order from the President and bring back the Obama-era rules that the Trump administration’s FCC gutted in 2017. The FCC plans to…

03 Apr

Facebook finally adds video controls like a slide bar

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The craze around Facebook Live might be a thing of the past, but Meta is still trying to make the platform video-friendly. The company has announced a new video player for uniformly displaying Reels, longer content and Live videos on the Facebook app. One of the biggest shifts is that all of Facebook's videos will now appear full-screen — even…

03 Apr

Microsoft may have finally made quantum computing useful

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The dream of quantum computing has always been exciting: What if we could build a machine working at the quantum level that could tackle complex calculations exponentially faster than a computer limited by classical physics? But despite seeing IBM, Google and others announce iterative quantum computing hardware, they're still not being used for any practical purposes. That might change with…

03 Apr

The next Ubisoft Forward showcase is set for June 10 alongside WWDC

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Ubisoft has revealed when its next major showcase will take place. The latest edition of Ubisoft Forward is set for June 10 in Los Angeles. That's at the tailend of the main slate of Summer Game Fest festivities, and on the same day as Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. While Ubisoft hasn't revealed specifically what it plans to show off…

03 Apr

Stability AI’s audio generator can now crank out 3 minute ‘songs’

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Stability AI just unveiled Stable Audio 2.0, an upgraded version of its music-generation platform. This system lets users create up to three minutes of audio via text prompt. That’s around the length of an actual song, so it'll also whip up an intro, a full chord progression and an outro. First, the good news. Three minutes is huge. The previous…

03 Apr

Our favorite cheap smartphone is on sale for $250 right now

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You don't need to shell out a four-figure sum to find a great smartphone. In fact, you don't even need to spend half of that to snap up one that covers all of the basics and then some. At its regular price of $300, the OnePlus Nord N30 5G was already our pick for the best cheap phone around. It's…

03 Apr

Some Spotify plans are reportedly getting more expensive soon

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Fish swim, birds fly and streaming services increase their prices. That’s (mostly) the way of things. After maintaining the same pricing for Premium for a long time, Spotify looks set to increase it twice within a year in some countries. According to Bloomberg, Spotify Premium will be around $1 more for an individual plan and about $2 costlier for family…