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Microsoft is releasing its next Windows 11 update to its Release Preview ring today. It’s the final ring of testing before the 24H2 update will be available to all Windows 11 users. The update includes HDR background support, energy saver, Sudo for Windows, Rust in the Windows kernel, and more.

Microsoft will officially roll the update out through Windows



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Google is adding the ability to see what shopping rewards and savings options you have on your saved credit cards as you check out using Google Pay. The feature is out today on select cards from American Express and Capital One, and it’s coming to more cards in the future.

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A pair of legislators have a plan to save Section 230: kill it so that Congress is forced to come up with a better version.

That was the topic of discussion at a hearing on Wednesday in the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on communications and technology. It came on the heels of the committee leaders’ proposal for the sunset, which



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Last week, Korean girl group aespa dropped a stellar new single, "Supernova," that likened their fizzling intensity to that of an exploding star. As the music video for the tune racked up millions of views, NASA's Webb Telescope jumped in to share an image of the youngest known remnant of a real-life supernova — the 340-year-old Cassiopeia A — on X.

NASA loves using pop music to teach the



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Some of the biggest names in tech are joining forces to try something that many before them have failed to do: use trees to cancel out their greenhouse gas emissions. Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Salesforce are creating the Symbiosis Coalition as an effort



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New research indicates the sun’s magnetic field originates close to the surface and not deep within the star, according to findings published in the journal Nature. This upends decades of prevailing scientific thought that placed the field more than 130,000 miles below the surface of the sun. It also brings us closer to understanding the nature of the sun’s magnetic field, which has been on



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This story contains discussions of sexual violence.

Multiple scenes from INDIKA are seared into my brain. A palm-sized person crawls out of a nun’s mouth and runs down her arm, frenzied, in the middle of a Catholic ritual. A man is suspended in the air, his torso impaled on a strip of curling rebar, while a guitarist gently encourages him to die. Dozens of bus-sized fish dangle on rotating spits



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  • Chevrolet is hopeful its offerings will break through in a new EV market.
  • Flooding the zone has worked with gas-powered cars.
  • Gas-powered cars and hybrids can fill in the gaps while the EV market adjusts.

Chevrolet's new lineup of electric vehicles is arguably showing up at the worst possible time.

After a few years of rapid



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The MCU’s Scarlet Witch may be dead, but Marvel’s keeping more of WandaVision’s story going with yet another spinoff, this time focused on Paul Bettany’s Vision.

Variety reports that Star Trek: Picard executive producer Terry Matalas has signed on to showrun a currently unnamed Disney Plus Marvel series revolving around Vision (Bettany), the synthezoid