Published on: 2025-04-19 09:35:05
Credits Karen G. Lloyd is the Wrigley Chair in Environmental Studies and professor of Earth science at the University of Southern California. This essay is adapted from her forthcoming book “Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth” (Princeton University Press, 2025). The way to spot a cold methane seep on the ocean floor is to look for the life that gathers around it, like antelopes at a savanna watering hole: clams, mussels, crabs, shrimp, fish, sea anemones and creepy, othe
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Weird OS: Microsoft regularly deprecates features in Windows, typically replacing them with improved alternatives or streamlining development. That's why its decision to drop a relatively new security feature – one it promoted less than a year ago – raises questions about how Windows is evolving and which users might be left behind. Microsoft has quietly added another entry to its ever-growing list of deprecated Windows features. The company is phasing out Virtualization-based Security (VBS) en
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Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Looking for an AI that can analyze, summarize, and answer questions about your current web page? You may want to try Microsoft's Copilot Vision feature. In a Bluesky post from Wednesday, Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, announced the official debut of Copilot Vision for all Edge users. Initially rolled out last October as an experimental feature, Copilot Vision expanded its reach in December as a preview, but only for Copilot Pro subscribers.
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After obliterating the federal office on long COVID and clawing back billions in COVID funding from state health departments, the Trump administration has now entirely erased the online hub for federal COVID-19 resources. In its place now stands a site promoting the unproven idea that the pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 was generated in and leaked from a lab in China, sparking the global health crisis. Navigating to COVID.gov brings up a slick site with rich content that lays out arguments and allega
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AYANEO Pocket Micro Classic The AYANEO Pocket Micro Classic is the perfect handheld for 4x upscaled GBA, with enough power for demanding shaders. The high price tag means it's only really for dedicated collectors, but this is the best a modern Game Boy Micro could be. While the SNES was the home console that best encapsulates my childhood, the Game Boy Advance was the handheld that really kicked off my gaming addiction. It was revolutionary for teenage me, and I ended up with two standard versi
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Friday, April 18 is Superman Day—in honor of Action Comics’ first issue on April 18, 1938—and DC’s got plenty of Superman to last the next few months. These cardstock variants showcasing the Man of Steel are themed around the live-action version in James Gunn’s movie coming July 11. Comic artists Nicola Scott, Jorge Jiménez, Jim Lee, and others lent their talents to these covers, which will release in May, June, and July as part of the “Summer of Superman” initiative. Along with the ongoing Ac
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Vivarium By James Somers The keeper of a university’s lab animals stumbles onto an extraordinary secret. For his mice the “sun” happened to rise between two and three in the morning, and so he, too, built his day around the artificial lights—even though increasingly this routine estranged him from the waking world. He’d pull in to a nearly empty parking lot, it would be him and the janitorial staff. He’d make his way down, down into the guts of the building, past airy lecture halls and glass-
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Seven federal workers who abruptly lost their jobs in recent weeks say they are worried that thousands of biological samples—from human urine to frozen rodent organs—may be left to rot in a government laboratory in West Virginia. The workers left behind the samples, which they say include lungs, spleens, and brains collected from rats and mice, after the Trump administration laid off or placed on administrative leave about two-thirds of the staff working at facilities managed by the National Ins
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Best MicroSD Cards Photograph: Amazon Many security cameras support local storage, enabling you to record videos on the camera or a linked hub. A few hubs have built-in storage, and some provide slots for hard drives, but most rely on microSD cards. Here are some details on what to look for (and a few recommendations). The microSD card you choose should have fast read and write speeds so that you can record high-quality video and play it back without delay. We recommend going for Class 10 mic
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Microsoft has reminded customers that Office 2016 and Office 2019 will reach the end of extended support six months from now, on October 14, 2025. Office 2019 reached the end of mainstream support in October 2023, while Office 2016 reached its end date three years earlier, in October 2020. "After that date, no further updates, security fixes, or technical support will be available for these versions of Office," the company said in a Microsoft 365 Admin Center update. "While the applications
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A motorcycle is seen near a building of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on April 16, 2025. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company denied reports that the semiconductor giant was in active discussions with Intel regarding a chipmaking joint venture. "TSMC is not engaged in any discussion with other companies regarding any joint venture, technology licensing
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Vivarium By James Somers The keeper of a university’s lab animals stumbles onto an extraordinary secret. For his mice the “sun” happened to rise between two and three in the morning, and so he, too, built his day around the artificial lights—even though increasingly this routine estranged him from the waking world. He’d pull in to a nearly empty parking lot, it would be him and the janitorial staff. He’d make his way down, down into the guts of the building, past airy lecture halls and glass-
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Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR Microsoft is finally opening up its Xbox mobile app to support purchases. First announced last fall but quickly put on hold, purchasing is available in beta now, with plans to expand to everyone soon. Microsoft is also expanding access to its stream-your-own-games feature. No one should be surprised to learn that mobile tech aficionados frequently also harbor a serious interest in gaming, and that’s just one of the many reasons we were so excited last
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is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Copilot Vision, Microsoft’s AI assistant feature that can interpret what’s on your screen and help you use apps, is now available for free use within the Edge browser, Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, announced on Bluesky today. Vision is a “talk-based experience,” as Microsoft calls it, meaning you use it by speaking into the air, then waiting for C
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Microsoft Imagine an AI agent that can not only conduct research on the web but also interact with websites to accomplish specific tasks -- all on its own. That's the idea behind a new innovation from Microsoft. On Wednesday, the software giant announced an interactive new skill designed to empower the AI agents that people create using its Copilot Studio product. That skill is computer use. Any agent you build can work with a desktop application or website to carry out specific actions just a
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In context: Every now and then, Microsoft security patches can wreak havoc on Windows PCs. Users are understandably cautious these days, and even an innocent, empty folder can raise concerns about what's going on in the system after installing one of these patches. Recent Windows security updates released as part of April's Patch Tuesday introduced an unexpected change. After installing this month's bug fixes, users discovered a new "inetpub" folder had been created in the root of the system vo
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In yet another sign that tech giant Microsoft is getting cold feet about overinvesting in AI infrastructure, the company has abruptly paused work on data centers in Ohio. As Bloomberg reports, the decision came to the surprise of officials who had agreed to develop a site near the city of Heath just two months prior. In late March, Microsoft told them it would be stopping the project, in addition to two other halted site developments in two nearby cities in the state. One of the projects outsi
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is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has started testing an early version of its Copilot for Gaming experience. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s Xbox plans tell me that employees can now access Copilot within the Xbox mobile app, and that while it looks similar to the existing Copilot chatbot, it’s designed to tap into your Xbox account. Announced last month, Copilot for Gaming will eventually be avail
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In brief: If you've noticed an unexplained spike in your CPU usage and other issues while typing in classic Microsoft Outlook, here's why: Microsoft has confirmed a bug in the email client that is causing these strange problems. It is currently investigating, but in the meantime, the company has advised affected users to switch to the Microsoft 365 Apps update channel. Since November, there have be
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The U.S. has been building so many solar farms that companies can’t find enough people to install the panels. By 2033, the number of solar installers is expected to increase by 48%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Even if those labor force growth projections pan out, the industry is still likely to face a shortage of experts with the right skills. Making the work grueling — and unappealing — is the fact that a significant fraction of solar farms are in deserts. “It’s terrible work
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Microsoft is working to fix an ongoing issue causing some users' Windows devices to be offered Windows 11 upgrades despite Intune policies preventing them. This known issue has impacted Windows desktop devices since Saturday, April 12, and is caused by what the company describes as a "latent code issue." Redmond added earlier today in an update to the Microsoft 365 admin center (IT10561350) that a targeted code fix is now being deployed to prevent additional impact on other systems. Microsoft
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is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has enabled a new “computer use” feature for Copilot Studio this week that lets AI agents interact with websites and desktop applications. Much like OpenAI’s Operator or Claude’s identically named “computer use” feature, businesses will be able to use Copilot Studio to build AI agents that treat websites and desktop apps as if they’re tools for automating tasks. “Com
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We’re very proud to say that, starting with version 134, Microsoft Edge is up to 9% faster as measured by the Speedometer 3.0 benchmark. With every release of Microsoft Edge, we care about delivering better performance, so that you can spend less time waiting and more time browsing. This is why we have features like sleeping tabs and startup boost, which are a big help for performance. The way you experience the web also depends significantly on how responsive web pages are. In this area, indu
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Microsoft announced it will begin disabling all ActiveX controls in Windows versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 2024 applications later this month. Introduced almost three decades ago, in 1996, ActiveX is a legacy software framework enabling developers to create interactive objects embedded in Office documents. After this change rolls out, ActiveX will be blocked entirely and without notification in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio to reduce the risk of malware or unauthorized code executio
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Tesla famously struggled to scale up production of the Model 3 sedan in 2018 — so much so that CEO Elon Musk said his company was weeks away from collapsing. That near-death experience helped spawn a whole new company called Atomic that’s built around using AI to streamline supply chains. Co-founded by former Tesla employees Michael Rossiter and Neal Suidan, Atomic was created inside DVx Ventures, the firm run by former Tesla president Jon McNeill. Rossiter is also a partner at DVx, which has l
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Microsoft warned that Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 will reach the end of support six months from now, on October 14. The Exchange Server Engineering Team also shared guidance for admins who need to decommission outdated servers until then, cautioning that Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 servers will be exposed to attacks since they'll no longer receive security patches and bug fixes. "Customer installations of Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 will of course continue to run after October 14,
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An Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered announcement seems imminent. Images from the game were found in the website files of the developer Virtuous before being removed. The images, which can still be seen on the hosting site imgur, included several side-by-side comparisons between the game’s 2006 release and the remaster. Several photos show off the remaster’s environment including one featuring an Oblivion Gate. There is also an updated version of the game’s iconic fire-wreathed logo and box
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Microsoft warned Windows users of increased CPU usage when typing while using recent versions of the classic Outlook email client. The company acknowledged this issue following a wave of user reports on social media and various online platforms since early November, including Microsoft's community website. Those affected reported that disabling all spell-check options and add-ins did not resolve the CPU usage issues. In a new support document published this week, Microsoft now revealed that th
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Gut health has recently been a trending topic on social media, yet it's not new. Whether or not you hopped on the bandwagon and began drinking prebiotic or probiotic beverages, many people have become obsessed with healing their gut to avoid embarrassing symptoms like bloating and/or flatulence. In fact, the trillions of microbes living in your gut, collectively known as the gut microbiome, serve as your body's internal environment. Consider your gut microbiome as "little pets living inside you
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The U.S. Commerce Department is conducting a national security investigation into imports of semiconductor technology and related downstream products, according to a Federal Register notice put online Monday. The official document — which calls for public comments on the investigation — further confirms that chips and the electronics supply chain will not be excluded from U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff plans despite his statement on Friday that many of those products were exempt from his
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