How Putin helped Congress rally behind cybersecurity legislation

Apple to pay $113 million to settle claims Within iPhone’batterygate’

Apple will pay $113 million to pay allegations by over three dozen U.S. labs that the company misled customers about iPhone battery electricity and software upgrades that slowed the operation of the apparatus. The settlement had been reached by 33 states and the District of Columbia, based on statements Wednesday from many attorneys overall. Regulators alleged […]

Archaeologists train a neural network to sort pottery fragments for them

(credit: Pawlowicz and Downum 2021) Real archaeological fieldwork is seldom as exciting as it looks in the movies. You tend to get fewer reanimated mummies, deadly booby traps, and dramatic shootouts with Nazis. Instead, you’ll see pieces of broken pottery—a lot of them. Potsherds are ubiquitous at archaeological sites, and that’s true for pretty much […]

Musk: Tesla accepts bitcoin as payment, won’t convert it “to fiat currency”

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Chesnot ) Tesla has begun accepting bitcoin as payment from car buyers in the continental US, and CEO Elon Musk said the company plans to expand the new payment option to other countries later this year. Musk announced the news on Twitter today. “You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin… […]