Google is working on a new kind of challenge to improve its reCAPTCHA system, using biometric identification to confirm that the user is indeed human. The new method is officially named "hand gesture verification" (HGV), and, according to early testing, is mostly useless. Even worse, HGV might pose a significant......
Microsoft’s new EU disclosure shows exactly how tech giants separate profits from where the work happens
Microsoft said nearly 40% of its pretax income was booked in Ireland, even though only about 3% of its global workforce is based in the country. In Germany, by contrast, the company reported less than half of 1% of its global profits. Across Europe as a whole, excluding Ireland, Microsoft......
Lenovo laptops are now shipping with YMTC SSDs, a sign of Chinese NAND entering the mainstream
Notebookcheck says this is the first YMTC laptop SSD it has tested and reports that the ThinkBook uses a 512GB M.2 2242 PCIe 4.0 drive, according to its teardown and performance testing. The ThinkBook 14 G9 IPL is a 14-inch office notebook built around Intel Core Ultra 200-series processors. It......
Fire breaks out on Brooklyn Bridge during New York’s fireworks show
A fire broke out on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York during the city’s July Fourth fireworks show
A timeline of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the arrest of Tyler Robinson
The 23-year-old man accused of killing Charlie Kirk will be in court this week for the case's most substantial hearing so far
150 people from 50 countries become US citizens at Mount Vernon on America’s 250th birthday
A group of 150 people from 50 countries has become U.S. citizens at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate
Female American rower completes record-breaking solo journey
A Grand Canyon river rafting guide who aimed to become the first American woman to row across the mid-Pacific solo has completed a record-breaking journey from California to Hawaii
A New Mexico town is running dry. An immigration detention center is its biggest water customer.
Following years of drought, the wells in Estancia, New Mexico, are running dry. After declaring a water emergency last week, the small town in Torrance County is hauling in water to fill its pipes. Estancia has also reduced water sales to the Torrance County Detention Facility, or TCDF, a federal...
British wildcard Arthur Fery fights back to beat Zizou Bergs in Wimbledon epic
World No 114 wins 2-6, 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5) Fery needed treatment three times for nosebleeds This place has always been home for Arthur Fery. He grew up a mile away from the Wimbledon grounds and went to school nearby. His mother, a former tennis player, is a...
World Club T20 and shorter ODIs among ICC options in radical overhaul of calendar
ICC exploring fixed windows for each format Continental championships among ideas up for debate The International Cricket Council is exploring a radical overhaul of the global calendar with discussions surrounding multilateral series, the creation of continental championships, a World Club Championship for T20 franchises, fixed windows for each format and...