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Thinking of what you would be better off living without? The rules of a no-buy challenge are self-imposed and simple: Make a list of the non-essential items you won’t spend money on for a set period of time and stick to it. Easier said than done.

The Justice Department reached a settlement agreement with Arthur Grand Technologies, an information technology firm, in Ashburn, Virginia. A northern Virginia tech company is paying $38,500 to settle claims that it discriminated by posting a job listing seeking white, U. S.-born candidates for an opening as a business analyst.

The Minneapolis-based retailer plans to introduce up to 2,000 new food and beverage items this year. Target has revamped its grocery aisles since the COVID-19 pandemic with items ranging from Korean foods and mocktails to barbecue-flavored trail mix as the discount retailer caters to shoppers who want to experiment while sticking to a budget.

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The US Treasury Department has sanctioned three Chinese nationals for their involvement in a VPN-powered botnet with more than 19 million residential IP addresses they rented out to cybercriminals to obfuscate their illegal activities, including COVID-19 aid scams and bomb threats. The criminal enterprise, the Treasury Department said Tuesday, was a residential proxy service known as 911 S5.

Enlarge / After building almost 100,000 W12-powered Bentley Continental GTs, the brand is moving to a plug-in powertrain. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Bentley provided flights from Barcelona to Washington and accommodation so Ars could drive the Continental GT Speed. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. BARCELONA—The days of big engines are numbered, even for big spenders.

Enlarge / Each of Precision's microelectrode arrays comprises 1,024 electrodes ranging in diameter from 50 to 380 microns, connected to a customized hardware interface. (credit: Precision) Brain-computer interface company Precision Neuroscience says that it has set a new world record for the number of neuron-tapping electrodes placed on a living human's brain—4,096, surpassing the previous record of 2,048 set last year, according to an announcement from the company on Tuesday. The high density of electrodes allows neuroscientists to map the activity of neurons at unprecedented resolution, which will ultimately help them to better decode thoughts into intended actions. Precision, like many of its rivals, has the preliminary goal of using its brain-computer interface (BCI) to restore speech and movement in patients, particularly those who have suffered a stroke or spinal cord injury.