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Oregon county seeks to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for extreme heat

Multnomah County reports heat-related deaths

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Enlarge / People and their pets rest at the Oregon Convention Center cooling station in Portland as the city is hit with extreme temperatures caused by a heat dome on June 28, 2021 (credit: Kathryn Elsesser / AFP via Getty Images ) Northwest Oregon had never seen anything like it. Over the course of three days in June 2021, Multnomah County—the Emerald State’s most populous county, which rests in

We test the baffling hubless Verge TS Pro electric motorbike

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Enlarge / No, we haven't photoshopped the rear wheel of this electric motorcycle; it uses a hubless motor. (credit: Michael Teo Van Runkle) Despite the fact that Americans buy more electric bicycles than electric cars, widespread adoption of electric motorcycles still lags well behind both. Part of the sluggish sales pace likely comes down to high prices, but as tech continues to evolve, e-moto s

Europe’s long-delayed flagship rocket is about to launch for the first time

Ariane 6 rocket launches soon

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Enlarge / The first Ariane 6 rocket is pictured inside the mobile gantry on its launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana. The gantry will wheel away from the rocket during the countdown Tuesday. (credit: ESA-S. Corvaja ) Europe's Ariane 6 rocket is finally ready to fly, four years late but vital as ever for European governments backing the more than $4 billion project. Set for liftoff from French Guia

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After two rejections, Apple approves Epic Games Store app for iOS

Epic Games updates Fortnite mobile

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Enlarge / Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. (credit: Epic Games ) It's been a whirlwind journey of stops and starts, but AppleInsider reports the Epic Game Store for iOS in the European Union has passed Apple's notarization process. This paves the way for Epic CEO Tim Sweeney to realize his long-stated goal of launching an alternative game store on Apple's closed platform—at least in Europe

Kathryn Hahn is ready to walk the Witch’s Road in Agatha All Along trailer

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Kathryn Hahn reprises her WandaVision role as Agatha Harkness in the spinoff series Agatha All Along . The true identity of nosy next-door neighbor Agatha—played to perfection by Kathryn Hahn—was the big reveal of 2021's WandaVision , even inspiring a meta-jingle that went viral. Now Hahn is bringing the character back for her own standalone adventure with Agatha All Along. Based on the first tra

Massive car dealer ransom attack is mostly over after 2 weeks of work-arounds

Local dealerships impacted by cyberattack

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Enlarge / Vehicles for sale at an AutoNation Honda dealership in Fremont, California, US, on Monday, June 24, 2024. (credit: Getty Images) After "cyber incidents" on June 19 and 20 took down CDK Global , a software-as-a-service vendor for more than 15,000 car dealerships, forum and Reddit comments by service tech workers and dealers advised their compatriots to prepare for weeks, not days, before

“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers

Nike discontinues Adapt auto-lacing technology

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Enlarge / Nike announced the Adapt BB as "a Self-Lacing Basketball Shoe" with app-controllable LEDs. (credit: Nike) In 2019, Nike got closer than ever to its dreams of popularizing self-tying sneakers by releasing the Adapt BB. Using Bluetooth, the sneakers paired to the Adapt app that let users do things like tighten or loosen the shoes' laces and control its LED lights. However, Nike has announ

The president ordered a board to probe a massive Russian cyberattack. It never did.

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Enlarge (credit: Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images ) This story was originally published by ProPublica . Investigating how the world’s largest software provider handles the security of its own ubiquitous products. After Russian intelligence launched one of the most devastating cyber espionage attacks in history against US government agencies, the Biden administration set up a n

First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers

Students impersonate teachers on TikTok

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Enlarge (credit: DragonImages | iStock / Getty Images Plus ) A bunch of eighth graders in a "wealthy Philadelphia suburb" recently targeted teachers with an extreme online harassment campaign that The New York Times reported was "the first known group TikTok attack of its kind by middle schoolers on their teachers in the United States." According to The Times, the Great Valley Middle School stude

Notepad’s spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years

Windows Notepad in Windows 11 adds spellcheck

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Testing spellcheck in the latest version of Windows Notepad. In March, Microsoft started testing an update to the venerable Notepad app that added spellcheck and autocorrect to the app's limited but slowly growing set of capabilities. The update that adds these features to Notepad is now rolling out to all Windows 11 users via the Microsoft Store, as reported by The Verge . The spellcheck feature

Boeing to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud FAA Aircraft Evaluation Group

Boeing pleads guilty in fraud

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Enlarge / An American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft approaches San Diego International Airport for a landing on June 28, 2024. (credit: Getty Images | Kevin Carter ) Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal charge and pay $243.6 million for violating a 2021 agreement that was spurred by two fatal crashes. The US government notified a judge of Boeing's plea agreement in a July 7 filing

Here’s NASCAR’s idea for a fully electric stock car

NASCAR unveils first electric racecar

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Enlarge / After developing the Next Gen stock car and then the Garage 56 car, NASCAR's tech team has now created a battery-electric race car prototype. (credit: NASCAR) This past weekend was a busy one on the racing calendar. Over in the UK, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone was yet more evidence that Red Bull no longer has the fastest car in F1. In Ohio, IndyCar had a mostly successful intro

Brad Pitt stages a Formula One racing comeback in first teaser for F1

Brad Pitt F1 movie partnership

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Brad Pitt and Damson Idris co-star in F1 , coming to theaters next summer. Can a washed-up Formula One driver come out of retirement to mentor a young rookie into a champion? That's the basic premise for F1 , a forthcoming film starring Brad Pitt and directed by Joseph Kosinski ( Tron: Legacy, Top Gun: Maverick ). Warner Bros. dropped the first teaser for the film yesterday, right before the 2024

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Review: Catching up with Doctor Who and Ncuti Gatwa’s stellar freshman season

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Enlarge / Ncuti Gatwa wrapped his first full season as the Fifteenth Doctor and proved more than up to the challenge. (credit: YouTube/BBC) Doctor Who is now in its 61st year, featuring a host of gifted British actors, each taking on the iconic role in turn. So Ncuti Gatwa had some very big shoes to fill when he took on playing the Fifteenth Doctor. Now the season has concluded and the verdict is

Alaska’s top-heavy glaciers are approaching an irreversible tipping point

Alaska's Juneau icefield melting rapidly

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Enlarge / Taku Glacier is one of many that begin in the Juneau Icefield. (credit: Mauricio Handler / Getty Images ) The melting of one of North America’s largest ice fields has accelerated and could soon reach an irreversible tipping point. That’s the conclusion of new research colleagues and I have published on the Juneau Icefield, which straddles the Alaska-Canada border near the Alaskan capita

The Yellowstone supervolcano destroyed an ecosystem but saved it for us

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Enlarge / Interior view of the Rhino Barn. Exposed fossil skeletons left in-situ for research and public viewing. (credit: Rick E. Otto, University of Nebraska State Museum) Death was everywhere. Animal corpses littered the landscape and were mired in the local waterhole as ash swept around everything in its