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So said Cornell Beard, the president of a union chapter representing Wichita factory workers for Spirit AeroSystems, according to The Wall Street Journal.

After its successful OSIRIS-REx mission to set an unmanned craft down on and retrieve a sample from the Bennu asteroid, two stubborn screws kept NASA’s scientists out of the canister. Now the screws are out, and there’s video to prove it.

Mitchell settled his defamation lawsuit against Twin Galaxies, the organization that dispossessed him of his Donkey Kong and Pac-Man record-holder status in 2018. Courthouse News reported that the settlement is confidential.

Swiss startup Flappie says its “AI-equipped cat door with integrated prey detection” uses a camera to see if your cat is trying to smuggle its victims inside.

His custom-built floating turntable alone weighs 1,500 pounds and uses three separate arms for alternative audio tone. The Washington Post quoted someone who heard the stereo as calling it “very scary and very realistic.”

The company posted a couple of brief clips of a steering wheel with ABXY buttons and some pedals, along with a date: January 16th, 2024 — presumably the day the company is officially announcing the product.

Victoria Song highlighted a lot of beauty tech she saw at this year’s CES in a Verge video from this week. You could easily blink and miss Imprintu, the temporary tattoo printer. I want one. Or I did, until I saw that it’s $249.

GameStop will shut down the NFT marketplace on February 2nd “due to the continuing regulatory uncertainty of the crypto space,” reported by Decrypt yesterday.

Becca Farsace and I pitched this video about finding the smallest television at CES 2024. But once we got to the show floor, we were swallowed up by gigantic 100+” screens, furniture centerpieces, and more TVs that turn into picture frames. As TV tech has progressed, have we forgotten about the tiny portables? Here’s our journey.

The company’s valuation surpassed Apple during trading early Thursday, though Apple took the top spot at the end of the day. However, Microsoft won the day yesterday with a market valuation pegged at $2.89 trillion (versus Apple’s $2.87 trillion).

Chad the Bird, a comedy puppet, gives a surprisingly succinct high-level explanation for what happened when Willis Gibson, AKA Blue Scuti, became the first known person to crash Tetris.