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Late last week, a Reddit user showed off their unique iPhone 17 Pro Max setup, which uses passive PC SSD heatsinks to improve sustained performance stability. The user, u/T-K-Tronix, says their DIY cooling system bumped the Pro Max’s stability score from 69.4% to 90.5%.The iPhone 17 Pro Max has the …

NASA’s Artemis program will eventually return humans to the lunar surface, but that’s just part of the effort to turn the Moon into a human outpost. The program will rely on myriad commercial payloads supplied by companies like Firefly Aerospace. NASA just announced a third mission for the company, which …

The number of emoji subscription purchases on the South Korean messaging app KakaoTalk has dropped by a third over the year, parent firm Kakao said in quarterly earnings call Thursday. It blamed Google’s new in-app payment policy, which forces apps to use the Android-maker’s own billing system. KakaoTalk’s Emoticon Plus …

Again with the accidental discoveries! It’s the third unexpected find within six weeks. This time, the good news was born from debris in a hunk of Dominican amber. The researchers were studying ants from the Miocene period, trapped in a piece of amber. A closer look at the “debris” inclusions, …

  Ever since Apple launched the M1 it’s been clear that the CPU was going to be trouble for Intel and AMD. Apple has now published its own power consumption figures for the M1-based Mac Mini as compared with the 2018 Intel Mac mini refresh, and the Intel systems don’t …

Coming at the end of a roughly two-year investigation, the European Commission (EC) has accused Amazon of violating EU competition law by unfairly using access to non-public data on its platform to undermine competition. Amazon’s behavior as a retailer and as a marketplace are in conflict, according to the antitrust …

Less than a third of consumers aware of Facebook ads boycott, Gen Z most engaged There are now nearly 1,000 advertisers that have formally signed on to the Stop Hate for Profit Facebook ads boycott. The organizations behind the campaign have lobbied brands to promote the boycott and its objectives, …

Paleontologists have described a completely unexpected new species of reptile that lived 230 million years ago (Triassic period). Dr. Stocker and co-authors describe Triopticus primus, a bizarre Late Triassic animal, whose skull structure is converged on by distantly related dome-headed pachycephalosaurs. The unique body plans observed in Triopticus primus and …

On Dec. 11, 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully completed its third flyby over Jupiter’s mysterious cloud tops. Jupiter’s ‘pearl.’ Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS. At the time of closest approach, Juno was about 2,580 miles (4,150 km) above the gas giant’s roiling cloud tops and traveling …

Microsoft is making Cortana available to third-party device makers, and opening up the platform to third-party developers, too, so that they can integrate their own services in Cortana-powered devices. The news comes after an earlier revelation that Cortana would be coming to some IoT devices via next year’s Creators Update …