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Our hottest and coldest 2025 takes

There’s a lot we don’t know about what’s coming for tech in 2025. AI could save the world, or ruin it, or do pretty much nothing interesting at all. A new US president could change priorities and policies on antitrust fights and privacy rules. Will TikTok get banned? Will the fediverse take off? Will it

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Our hottest and coldest 2025 takes

There’s a lot we don’t know about what’s coming for tech in 2025. AI could save the world, or ruin it, or do pretty much nothing interesting at all. A new US president could change priorities and policies on antitrust fights and privacy rules. Will TikTok get banned? Will the fediverse take off? Will it

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WASM-4: Retro Game Dev Right in Your Browser

Have you ever dreamt of developing games that run on practically anything, from a modern browser to a microcontroller? Enter WASM-4, a minimalist fantasy console where constraints spark creativity. Unlike intimidating behemoths like Unity, WASM-4’s stripped-back specs challenge you to craft games within its 160×160 pixel display, four color palette, and 64 KB memory. Yes,

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WASM-4: Retro Game Dev Right in Your Browser

Have you ever dreamt of developing games that run on practically anything, from a modern browser to a microcontroller? Enter WASM-4, a minimalist fantasy console where constraints spark creativity. Unlike intimidating behemoths like Unity, WASM-4’s stripped-back specs challenge you to craft games within its 160×160 pixel display, four color palette, and 64 KB memory. Yes,

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WASM-4: Retro Game Dev Right in Your Browser

Have you ever dreamt of developing games that run on practically anything, from a modern browser to a microcontroller? Enter WASM-4, a minimalist fantasy console where constraints spark creativity. Unlike intimidating behemoths like Unity, WASM-4’s stripped-back specs challenge you to craft games within its 160×160 pixel display, four color palette, and 64 KB memory. Yes,

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Wuhan Lab Researcher Fully Sequences Genomes of Coronavirus Samples From 2004 to 2021, Finds No Close Relatives to SARS-CoV-2

60-year-old Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli led the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s group studying bat coronaviruses (prompting Science magazine to call her “Bat Woman”). In June of 2020 Scientific American described Zhengli as “distressed because stories from the Internet and major media have repeated a tenuous suggestion that SARS-CoV-2 accidentally leaked from her lab — despite

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What Arm’s CEO makes of the Intel debacle

Arm ” is worth almost $150 billion,” writes the Verge, “which is now considerably more than Intel.” “With the news earlier this week that Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger ‘retired’ and Intel is evaluating its options for a possible spinoff or outright sale, I wanted to hear what [Arm CEO Rene] Haas thought should happen to

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What Arm’s CEO makes of the Intel debacle

Arm ” is worth almost $150 billion,” writes the Verge, “which is now considerably more than Intel.” “With the news earlier this week that Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger ‘retired’ and Intel is evaluating its options for a possible spinoff or outright sale, I wanted to hear what [Arm CEO Rene] Haas thought should happen to

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Amazon Offers $100M in Cloud-Computing Credits for Projects Like ‘AI Teaching Assistant’

This week AWS pledged up to $100 million in cloud-computing credits for educational organizations over the next five years, to help them build “technology-based learning experiences” on AWS, including: AI assistants coding curriculums – connectivity tools student learning platforms mobile apps chatbots One example shared by Amazon: The nonprofit Code.org will use AWS’s cloud credits

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