A New Surveillance Tool Invades Border Towns
This week, WIRED reported that a group of prolific scammers known as the Yahoo Boys are openly operating on major platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok, and Telegram. Evading content moderation…
Satellite Rediscovered in Space After Being Lost for 25 Years
In our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie describes the rediscovery of a satellite lost in the 1990s and why we sometimes lose sight of our orbital property. Researchers…
What Kind of Battery Would You Need to Power a Lightsaber?
Melting an ice cube takes 3.34 x 105 joules per kilogram. So a single ice cube with a mass of 50 grams would take 16,700 joules. You can already see…
ICYMI: the week’s 7 biggest tech stories, from Netflix enraging users to the Rabbit R1 disappointing all of us
Happy Star Wars Day to those who celebrate! But even on these most nerdy of holidays, the tech world moves so fast it’s like it’s jumped to Hyperspace. If you’ve…
How to fix an Apple Watch that won’t turn on
The Apple Watch Ultra 2 and various other models come with features that help you track your fitness and well-being, keep an eye on your heart rate, log your sleeping…
Kentucky Derby 2024 live stream: Can you watch for free?
The 150th running of the Kentucky Derby takes place this weekend, as Fierceness, Sierra Leone and the top three-year-old thoroughbreds will compete in the most anticipated race of the year.…
Microsoft Xbox Series X review: You’re going to want a Game Pass subscription
Xbox Series X MSRP $500.00 “The Xbox Series X is an extremely powerful console, but it still struggles to deliver console-selling exclusives.” Gobs of potential More storage than PS5 Accessible…
Hisense’s answer to Samsung’s The Frame TV starts at $999
Hisense During CES, Hisense spent much of its time talking about its massive (and massively bright) mini-LED TVs for 2024. However, it also teased us with its CanvasTV, a model…
More details emerge about Apple’s plans for AI in iOS 18
Apple CEO Tim Cook has made it clear that AI features are coming soon, and a new report from AppleInsider offers more details about what we might see in the…
Here’s the letter from 14 senators slamming TSA facial recognition in airports
The TSA’s been planning to expand facial recognition to a whopping 430 US airports over the next several years — but a bipartisan group of 14 senators is now challenging…