There are several reasons why the fast-food chain In-N-Out Burger is a cult favorite , including immaculate restaurants, an affordable menu, secret items, and made-to-order burgers. The insistence on serving fresh double-doubles, fries, and shakes is the reason In-N-Out doesn’t participate in online food delivery services like DoorDash or GrubHub. But, as reported by L.A. Material, a thrivin…
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Marvel screened the first episode of VisionQuest at New York Comic Con today, surprising attendees of its packed "Up Next From Marvel Television and Marvel Animation" panel. The energy was electric as audiences got an early look at the MCU's latest show, which marks the end of the loosely connected WandaVision trilogy that began with WandaVision and Agatha All Along . VisionQuest reunites viewers…
Girl meets boy. Girl falls for boy's impeccable taste in music. Boy turns out to be a girl. That's the irresistible premise of The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All , the fan-favorite yuri manga making its anime debut in 2027. At New York Comic Con on Thursday, Crunchyroll unveiled the adaptation's world premiere trailer , giving fans their first look at Aya and Mitsuki's budding roman…
Anthropic's offering to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities with a new service called OSS Scanner . It says open-source projects that opt-in will get "thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost." That could mean open-source projects get alerted about possible security issues sooner, but the trade-off is that OSS Scanner's reports don't come with…
"With macro conditions worsening, the risk is that the outlook for the next few quarters gets worse before it gets better." "With macro conditions worsening, the risk is that the outlook for the next few quarters gets worse before it gets better."
Amazon's latest and greatest tablet shares some key similarities to Apple's high-end iPads, but the devil is in the details. Amazon's latest and greatest tablet shares some key similarities to Apple's high-end iPads, but the devil is in the details.
Space has plenty of room for more megaconstellations, but only if all operators are willing to share information about where their satellites are and where they're going, a top executive at SpaceX and its AI subsidiary said this week. Michael Nicolls, SpaceX's vice president for Starlink and president of Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, used a presentation Tuesday at the Internati…
Bloomberg : SpaceX agrees to acquire a low-band spectrum portfolio to help Starlink “become a major mobile carrier in the US”; AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon fall 6%+ after hours — Elon Musk's SpaceX said it acquired low-band spectrum that will enable it to use its Starlink satellites to become a …
SpaceX has acquired a portfolio of low-band spectrum licenses - a move the company says "will pave the way" for its Starlink Mobile service to become a "major" US carrier. When the Federal Communications Commission signs off on the deal, SpaceX says it will deploy its new architecture that combines its satellite-to-mobile constellation with a terrestrial mobile network, directly competing with T-M…
The company is also tightening its election policy ahead of the midterms. The company is also tightening its election policy ahead of the midterms.
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.
President Zelensky has announced the development of a Ukrainian Starlink replica The Ukraine military requires better connectivity for drone support and other communications It is understood Ukraine will launch 120 satellites in 2027 using SpaceX Ukraine is planning its own Starlink system, designed to assist in the planning and deployment of military defence operations against Russia, according t…
It's already possible to get AMD's framerate-enhancing FSR 4 boost on handhelds as old as the Steam Deck - but in June, AMD reserved the right to disappoint handheld gamers by not officially bringing FSR 4 to older handhelds. But AMD consumer chip boss Jack Huynh now says he will bring the tech to some handhelds by the end of the year. Which handhelds? It's still not clear if it will come to exist…
Watch Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage season 3 online Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage season 3 premiere: Thursday, October 8 at 8pm ET US broadcast: CBS via Fubo Free Trial US stream: Paramount Plus Use NordVPN to watch from anywhere Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage season 3 promises all kinds of chaos. First of all, Georgie and his mother, Mary, are not on speaking terms after she started datin…
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder's desk.
Likely in the next few weeks, a federal judge will decide if Donald Trump can become the first president to personally profit from selling early access to government information in his social media posts. At a hearing Wednesday, Department of Justice civil attorney Brantley Mayers argued that there was no conflict whatsoever with Trump charging up to $100,000 monthly for instant API access to Trut…
Trump Mobile apparently failed to obtain necessary authorizations to operate the international calling portion of its phone service, Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) wrote in a letter to the company today. Her letter said Trump Mobile also doesn't appear to have submitted a required plan for fighting robocalls. Trump Mobile's key business partner, Liberty Mobile Wireless, did make a robocall database f…
After extensive testing, Common Sense Media found the chatbot failed in five key areas. After extensive testing, Common Sense Media found the chatbot failed in five key areas.
Apple is set to introduce a new MacBook Pro with a touchscreen and an updated iPad Mini "on or around" October 27th, Bloomberg reports . If true, that would put the event just two weeks after the October 13th event Apple announced today , which is rumored to focus on smart home products. Bloomberg says that the late October event will include an "online video presentation" and an "in-person compon…
Paramount Pictures will develop the film and CD Projekt Red will produce. Paramount Pictures will develop the film and CD Projekt Red will produce.
One of the regulations that make vehicles in the US different from those in Europe or Japan is our headlight rules. They’re laid out in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), and changing them is—or used to be—a lengthy, laborious process, which is a major reason automotive lighting technology has lagged in the US. But the current administration says it’s time for “bolstering driver s…
Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term "software engineering" and led the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program in the 1960s, died last week at the age of 90. A recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, Hamilton was also immortalized as a LEGO minifig the following year—part of the "Women of NASA" set that also included astronauts Mae Jemison and Sally Rid…
The racing game's first expansion will also be available early next year. The racing game's first expansion will also be available early next year.
The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to a startup that hosted a match between a human and a robot last month, as reported by The New York Times . The fight, which took place on September 18th, pitted a human, Frankie LaPenna, against a humanoid robot owned by a tech startup, Rek, that was being piloted by a human using what the NYT described as a "remote virtual-…
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.
Let's Encrypt is continuing a push toward improved security by reducing free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes from 90 days to 64 days, starting on February 10, 2027. For administrators already implementing modern ACME clients that support ARI (ACME Renewal Information), the change should be seamless. For those still relying on hardcoded renewal schedules or manual processes, next winter will be the d…
Detainees are seen in a yard at the Folkston ICE Processing Center on September 9, 2025, in Folkston, Georgia. (Photo by ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images Four men detained at an ICE detention center in rural Georgia used the facility's video conferencing software to expose both the conditions inside and President Donald Trump's hostile takeover of the immigration court…
A federal jury in Texas recently ruled in favor of a man who sued Bexar County and its sheriff over allegations that the agency ran what the plaintiff’s attorneys called an “unconstitutional traffic stop scheme” enabled by “AI-powered” license plate readers. Late last month, plaintiff Alek Schott of Houston was awarded $76, one dollar for each minute that he was detained. (Schott asked for this ex…
Amazon has built its 1,000th broadband satellite and says service is weeks away, having cut production from 27 satellites in six months to 27 a week, while the number in orbit is still 396. That shortfall cost it spectrum priority in July, and the FCC will hand it back early if Amazon proves it has […] This story continues at The Next Web
Windows Search has been one of the most frustrating parts of Windows 11, and now Microsoft is addressing this with a significant overhaul. A new redesigned Windows Search is now in testing that is much faster, more capable, and a lot more modern. "This new Windows Search experience is built for speed," says Anshul Rawat , corporate vice president of the Windows product team at Microsoft. "It's bui…
According to a new San Francisco father, “parenting hits different when you work in AI .” Alvin Sng, a software engineer at AI company Factory, went viral for his AI-infused parenting technique—but not in a good way. In his since-deleted post, Sng said that when his wife asked him to read their newborn baby a book, he replied, “I can just play an audiobook from my phone.” When she objected that th…
Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people. But she didn’t anticipate just how angry they would get.
Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the federal health department is undertaking an agency-wide effort to focus on injuries claimed to be related to vaccines. In a press announcement Thursday , the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) laid out four aspects of the large-scale initiative. The first is a new clinic at the National Institutes of Health that is "dedicate…
Just when you thought Apple was done with big events for the year after the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo announcement last month, the company has announced another special fête for later this month. Apple Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing Greg Joswiak posted a video on his X account on Thursday which teased an upcoming Oct. 13 event. The video shows two women cross-stitching a rainbow Apple l…
Access to the emergency feature for LTE-connected wearables will end by December. Access to the emergency feature for LTE-connected wearables will end by December.
Cyberpunk 2077 is heading to the big screen. Deadline reports that CD Projekt Red's popular sci-fi video game franchise is being adapted into a live-action film by Paramount Pictures. There's no details just yet on when the film might premiere. But Deadline says that Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who is known for producing the Transformers films, will be a producer on the movie. Despite its rocky 2020 l…
“There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft,” Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday.
HubSpot founder and chief technology officer Dharmesh Shah is drawing backlash on social media for a 28-word LinkedIn post thanking the employees who the company laid off this week. “My personal thanks to all of the people that HubSpot parted ways with today,” he wrote. “You helped make HubSpot the company it is. Best wishes with the next chapter.” The cloud-based software provider announced on Tu…