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GameScent uses audio cues and AI to bring smells to video games

Modder uses old iPods to control games on the Steam Deck, starting with Skyrim

Wendy's will spend $20 million on digital menus to introduce customers to "dynamic pricing"

Imagine this: You are standing in line at a fast food restaurant, looking at the menu to decide what to order. You decide on a plain burger for $4. The queue finishes one order, so you move up, then notice your burger now costs $4.20. The line moves again, and now it's $4.40. There are still five more customers ahead of you. What do you do?

Class action suit filed over license plate data, allegedly violating the privacy of millions of California drivers

Maker builds device to hack neighbor's Bluetooth speakers that were streaming annoying music

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's message to kids: generative AI means you don't need to learn coding

Facial recognition software discovered in college campus vending machines

Judge cuts law firm's legal bill in half after it used ChatGPT to calculate "excessive" amount

Supreme Court set to decide major First Amendment cases for online speech

In context: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases involving opposing state-level rulings regarding censorship of online speech. The hearing raises critical First Amendment issues, and the high court's decision could radically change the future of online discourse.

This robot lawn mower cuts your grass for you, but can it play Doom? Yes, it can.

Borderlands trailer fails to instill blockbuster confidence

Full disclosure: Throw everything you know about Borderlands out the window if you want to enjoy the film adaptation. I absolutely love the entire cast – just not for this movie. Granted, I only have its first trailer to go on, but unless it's set some 30+ years in the original game's future, the casting makes zero sense.

Another extremely rare copy of Zelda is heading to auction, and it could break records

Mark Zuckerberg seeks to avoid personal liability in social media addiction lawsuits

Anti-piracy warnings have the opposite effect on men, new study says

Here's how you can get hired at your dream tech company

Wisk's autonomous flying taxi service set to take off in Texas by 2030

Hemispherical solar cells could significantly improve sunlight absorption

Counterfeiters caught in multimillion-dollar iPhone repair scheme

YouTube continues to dominate the streaming pack, Netflix takes second spot

Self-taught programmer creates shovelware games in under 30 minutes, earns over $350,000

Neuralink's first human subject successfully controls computer mouse with thoughts following brain-chip implant

NASA seeks participants for simulated yearlong Mars mission

Developer sets new record by installing Windows 10 in 104 seconds

Two of the world's first desktop PCs discovered during routine home cleaning

In a nutshell: Even in this connected era where anything of value already seems to be on eBay, amazing discoveries are being made. In London, a routine house cleaning by a waste company uncovered two of the world's first desktop PCs, released back in the early 1970s, of which only three are known to still exist today.

Intel appears to have pulled a fast one on benchmark tests for its Xeon processors