Ellen Lloyd -  AncientPages.com -  British Columbia, Canada, is home to many fascinating ancient mysteries that invite deep reflection. Among these are the intriguing discoveries of ancient underground houses inhabited by enigmatic people. The Thomson First Nation stumbled upon several of these dwellings and was driven by curiosity to explore them. Yet, they found the houses were not abandoned; instead,...

The British Broadcasting Corporation has filed a complaint with a UK antitrust regulator complaining that aggregators like Apple News and Google News minimize credit for the stories they feature. Apple Insider reports that the BBC is asking the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority to require Apple and Google to more prominently credit news sources. And while the CMA’s decision would...

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 this week. It's based on a 4nm node, and gets the older Kryo CPU instead of the Oryon core found on the flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. The CPU has one Cortex-X4 core, topping out at 3.2GHz. The GPU is an Adreno 825. There's a Hexagon NPU that brings a 44% performance boost...

Death of a Unicorn review – goodbye horses, good riddance About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature...

Mr Burton review – elevated by a dynamic performance About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plans to host a hackathon next week focused on the creation of a “mega API” that will provide access to taxpayer data, according to Wired. Wired says the hackathon is being organized by two DOGE staffers at the Internal Revenue Service — Gavin Kliger and Sam Corcos, who’s also CEO at healthtech startup...

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Over the 13 years reporting on Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, I have watched the rise, fall, near misses, and rise again of the company and its billionaire leader. Musk, known...

Amazon is starting to test a new AI shopping agent, a feature it calls “Buy for Me,” with a subset users, the company announced in a blog post Thursday. If Amazon doesn’t sell something that users are searching for, the Buy for Me feature will display products to users that other websites are selling. Then, users can select and request...

The inner structures of the brain are difficult to investigate without surgery.Credit: K H Fung/Science Photo LibraryNeuroscientists have observed for the first time how structures deep in the brain are activated when the brain becomes aware of its own thoughts, known as conscious perception1.The brain is constantly bombarded with sights, sounds and other stimuli, but people are only ever aware...

Social media influencers pose a "new and increasing threat" for uncontacted indigenous people, a charity has warned after the arrest of a US tourist who travelled to a restricted Indian Ocean island.Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, allegedly landed on North Sentinel Island in an apparent attempt to make contact with the isolated Sentinelese tribe, filming his visit and leaving a can...