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YouTube TV, which launched in 2017 as a $35-per-month all-in-one service, will soon introduce YouTube TV Plans. Although the announcement is light on details, we know the initiative will let you sign up for genre-specific packages, such as sports and news. In other words, it’s the final step in the legacy-cable-ification of the service.YouTube hasn’t said anything about pricing. But it’s probably safe to assume that narrowing your available content will reduce your bill. A year ago, the company raised its monthly cost to $83. That’s 137 percent higher than the service’s launch price nearly nine years ago.We don’t yet…

The Amazon rainforest is inching toward a “hypertropical” climate regime that has not existed on Earth for at least 10 million years, new research suggests.Scientists predict this regime will cause more frequent and extreme droughts, which could lead to mass tree dieoffs. By 2100, hot droughts could bake the Amazon for 150 days of the year, extending even into the wet season, according to a study published Wednesday (Dec. 10) in the journal Nature.”When these hot droughts occur, that’s the climate that we associate with a hypertropical forest, because it’s beyond the boundary of what we consider to be tropical…

For the past few months, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has engaged in a sprawling and extremely public investigation of disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Keeping track of it all can be hard, even for the sharpest observers.While initial public interest in what Epstein-related documents the federal government possesses has focused on investigative files held by the Department of Justice, the Oversight Committee’s inquiry expands far past that. In addition to subpoenaing the DOJ, the committee has sent letters or issued subpoenas to several other entities, including the US Treasury Department, the Attorney General of…

Nintendo has announced its Nintendo Switch Online additions for December, which are for all the N64-era 3D platformer fans out there. On December 17, Rayman 2: The Great Escape and Tonic Trouble are joining the Switch’s Nintendo Classics library. As a reminder, N64 games are exclusive to Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscribers, along with the emulators for the Game Boy Advance, Sega Genesis and GameCube.For retro gaming completionsists, Tonic Trouble might actually be the more interesting get for NSO, despite being far less well known than the Rayman series. It was Ubisoft’s first 3D platformer, but a number of…

Steam’s Next Fests, where developers share hundreds of demos, tend to get most of the focus allotted to playable pre-release morsels of various games each year, but it’s definitely worth noticing that Microsoft frequently does the same over on Xbox. The ID@Xbox Indie Selections Demo Fest (catchy) has been running on and off for a few years, offering a few dozen trials across a limited time, often featuring some stunning games. The latest features 36 free demos to check out until the end of December, mostly for Xbox consoles, and has some bangers. But that’s a lot of games to…

A breakthrough battery technology could vastly improve the safety of batteries used for electric vehicles (EVs) and could enhance the stability of energy grids, scientists say.Researchers made the breakthrough while developing solid-state sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries, which could one day supplement and replace the lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries used in many everyday devices today.The new batteries promise greater safety and lower cost, provided researchers can crack the problem of producing them at scale and in such a way that they have long lifecycles. The researchers published their findings in two studies; the first was released May 19 in the journal Advanced Materials…

To try to determine the probability of those name repetitions being a coincidence, Cary checked two databases of Chinese names and consulted with Yi Fuxian, a professor of Chinese demography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The name Qiu Daibing—or 邱代兵 in Chinese characters—turned out to be a relatively unlikely name to show up twice just by chance, he says. The surname 邱 alone, Yi confirmed to WIRED, represents just 0.27 percent of Chinese names, and in combination with the specific 代兵 given name would represent a far smaller percentage.The name Yu Yang (余洋 in Chinese characters) is more common. But…

Petco has accidentally exposed a whole lot of customer data and personal information, . This is thanks to a security lapse involving its Vetco clinics website, forcing the company to take a portion of that site offline.Petco has confirmed the leak and TechCrunch noted that the security lapse allowed anyone to download customer records without login information. The exposed data includes customer names, driver’s license numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and even financial information. It also includes customer records from visits to Vetco, like medical histories, pet names, vaccination records and other stuff like that.This was due to…

Ring belongs to Amazon, which gives the retail giant complete freedom to price these video doorbells however aggressively it wants without worrying about profit margins on individual units. Amazon’s strategy focuses on getting Ring devices installed in as many homes as possible and knows that subscription revenue and ecosystem lock-in will pay off long-term even if the hardware sells at cost or below. The newest battery doorbell model delivers head-to-toe video coverage with 66% more vertical view than the previous generation, and captures packages on the ground and tall visitors’ faces in a single frame. This latest version currently sells…

Neanderthals were the world’s first innovators of fire technology, tiny specks of evidence in England suggest. Flecks of pyrite found at a more than 400,000-year-old archaeological site in Suffolk, in eastern England, push back archaeologists’ evidence for controlled fire-making and suggest that key human brain developments began far earlier than previously thought.”We’re a species who’ve used fire to really shape the world around us,” study co-author Rob Davis, a Paleolithic archaeologist at the British Museum, said in a news conference on Tuesday (Dec. 9). “The ability to make fire would have been critically important” in human evolution, Davis said, “accelerating…