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It is a banner week for questionable Star Trek anniversaries, but while earlier this week we found at least something to admire in Voyager’s bold exploration of the Warp 10 threshold and space-amphibian evolution, there is very little to admire in the other major milestone. Thirty years ago today, The Next Generation…

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In 2024, it feels as if our society’s technology is propelling forward in an unknown trajectory. Just this week, a person had a computer chip installed in their brain.

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Microsoft is launching a suite of its Microsoft 365 apps on Apple’s Vision Pro headset later this week. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Loop, and Microsoft Teams will all be available in the App Store for Apple Vision Pro on February 2nd — the same day Apple’s new headset is available in stores.

Apple Vision Pro owners will also be able

• Sen. Tom Cotton repeatedly asked TikTok's head about his citizenship. 
• CEO Shou Zi Chew is Singaporean, as he reminded Cotton multiple times.
• The tech leader was joined by four other social media heads during a congressional hearing.

During Wednesday's tense congressional testimony over

• US lawmakers grilled CEOs from tech giants on their platform's online safety practices.
• Senators appeared to be bullish on whether the tech CEOs support their proposed laws. 
• CEOs were also seen getting testy and deflecting the lawmaker's claims

• After their jobs went remote in 2020, couple Pooja and Kumar transformed a school bus into a home.
• The couple installed plumbing, solar power, wiring, and water tanks into the bus.
• The two have traveled to more than 10 different states across the US and work from their bus.

When their

Surprise viral gaming hit Palworld continues to reach new player milestones. Today, developer Pocketpair announced that the game has sold 12 million copies on Steam and reached 7 million players on Xbox. The Xbox number includes both sales and those who played via Game Pass, but the breakdown between the two isn’t clear.

According to Microsoft, though

We knew 2024 was going to be a landmark year in spaceflight, and judging by the wide range of developments in just the first month, we’re in for an extraordinary ride throughout the rest of the year.

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Sony is set to host its first PlayStation showcase of 2024 and it's shaping up to be a big one. The State of Play stream will run for over 40 minutes and feature more than 15 games. The event starts at 5PM ET and you can watch it below.

We know for sure that we'll get extended looks at two games in particular: Stellar Blade and Rise of the Ronin. Shift Up's Stellar Blade is a Sony-published action

• Nvidia's startup investments jumped 280% year-over-year, S&P Global reported.
• While its venture activity jumped, other tech giants largely pulled back investing.
• Nvidia's blowout year provided it with a massive cash pile to unleash on

The Shopify Magic suite of generative AI tools that launched in April last year is adding a media editor that brings generative image fill to its platform and conversational search powered by AI. Merchants can prompt the image editor to change photo backgrounds without Photoshop experience to match whatever theme they have in