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The PlayStation Portal is the rare product that launched as a truly baffling device, but has evolved into something genuinely useful. At first, it could only stream games from your PlayStation 5, it lacked core features for a handheld like Bluetooth audio and it felt a bit overpriced at $200 for such a limited product. Add on the fact that home streaming can be notoriously unreliable, since it depends entirely on your ISP and home networking setup, and the Portal simply didn’t make much sense. But in 2024 Sony finally added limited cloud streaming for PS Plus titles, and last…

QUICK FACTSMilestone: First person infected with SARSDate: Nov. 16, 2002Where: Foshan, ChinaWho: A food handlerIn January 2003, epidemiologists in China identified two cases of “atypical pneumonia” in patients who had visited health care workers in Guangdong province. Teams initiated contact tracing and eventually discovered that the germ responsible for the illnesses had been circulating since a patient fell ill Nov. 16, 2002.Those early cases in November were in “food handlers” — those who either worked as chefs in restaurants or as vendors at “wet markets,” where live animals, such as poultry and more-exotic animals like civet cats and raccoon dogs,…

When Altman celebrates finally getting GPT to avoid em dashes, he’s really celebrating that OpenAI has tuned the latest version of GPT-5.1 (probably through reinforcement learning or fine-tuning) to weight custom instructions more heavily in its probability calculations. There’s an irony about control here: Given the probabilistic nature of the issue, there’s no guarantee the issue will stay fixed. OpenAI continuously updates its models behind the scenes, even within the same version number, adjusting outputs based on user feedback and new training runs. Each update arrives with different output characteristics that can undo previous behavioral tuning, a phenomenon researchers call…

Apple has been ordered to pay medical tech company Masimo $634 million by a federal jury for infringing on the latter’s patent on blood oxygen monitoring technology. According to the jury, the Apple Watch’s workout mode and heart rate notification features violated Masimo’s patent rights according to a Masimo spokesman. An Apple spokesman weighed in by saying that the tech giant disagreed with the verdict and will appeal.Last year Apple disabled the blood oxygen feature on Apple Watch Series 9 and 10, and on Apple Watch Ultra 2The Apple spokesman said, “Over the past six years (Masimo has) sued Apple…

Amazon’s Criterion Collection Black Friday sale doesn’t always include preorders, but one of the most popular upcoming releases is now eligible for the 50% discount. Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut is available to preorder for $25 (was $50) on 4K Blu-ray and $20 (was $40) on 1080p Blu-ray. Eyes Wide Shut releases November 25, and it’s currently the No. 1 best-selling movie on Amazon.Eyes Wide Shut is Criterion’s second Stanley Kubrick release of 2025. Criterion brought Barry Lyndon to 4K Blu-ray in July. If you haven’t picked up Kubrick’s superb historical drama yet, it’s also eligible for Amazon’s half-off sale,…

If you want to capture the thrill of opening up a new Labubu, but you don’t actually want a Labubu (or you’re still confused about what a Labubu even is), Sanrio blind boxes are it. On the heels of the absolutely delightful My Melody & Kuromi Netflix show, Sanrio has dropped a slew of merch featuring the two best frenemies, but its Sweet Tea Party blind boxes take the cake in terms of affordability, adorableness and built-in suspense. The My Melody & Kuromi Sweet Tea Party blind boxes come from Japanese miniature-toy maker Re-Ment and there are eight scenes to…

This view shows a Shenzhou spacecraft departing the Tiangong space station in 2023. Credit: China Manned Space Agency Swapping spacecraft in low-Earth orbit With their original spacecraft deemed unsafe, Chen and his crewmates instead rode back to Earth on the newer Shenzhou 21 craft that launched and arrived at the Tiangong station October 31. The three astronauts who launched on Shenzhou 21—Zhang Lu, Wu Fei, and Zhang Hongzhang—remain aboard the nearly 100-metric ton space station with only the damaged Shenzhou 20 craft available to bring them home. China’s line of Shenzhou spaceships not only provide transportation to and from low-Earth…

Set in 1982, Tom’s Crossing takes place in a small Utah county and the mountain ranges surrounding it. Kalin March, the 15-year-old protagonist and new resident in town, promises his dying friend that he will save two horses from slaughter. The friend, Tom Gatestone, accompanies Kalin from beyond the grave as a ghost.Tom’s Crossing is beautifully written in a distinct style that feels like listening to a very clever friend tell ghost stories by a campfire.If you’ve read Danielewski’s House of Leaves, The Familiar, or one of his other works, you may expect to see a wide array of fonts,…

One of the best streaming devices you can get today is deeply discounted on Amazon ahead of Black Friday. The Google TV Streamer is going for just $75 right now — the lowest price we’ve seen it hit yet. The device normally costs $100.The Google TV Streamer is our top pick for an all-in-one streaming device. It has a faster processor than Google’s previous streaming devices (22 percent faster, according to the company), so you can switch between apps and different media without lagging.GoogleOne of our favorite streaming devices is at its lowest price yet.  $75 at AmazonIt also has…

I’ve been involved with the Rebelle Rally since its inception in 2016, either as a competitor or live show host, and over the past 10 years, I’ve seen it evolve from a scrappy rally with big dreams to the world-class event that it is today. In a nutshell, the Rebelle Rally is the longest competitive off-road rally in the United States, covering over 2,000 kilometers, and it just happens to be for women. Over eight days, teams of two must plot coordinates on a map, figure out their route, and find multiple checkpoints—both marked and unmarked—with no GPS, cell phones,…