The best video game DLCs of all time
There’s a certain sadness to finishing one of the best games of all time. While the experience itself was great, seeing it come to an end leaves you looking for…
Samsung expects to ship Ballie, its futuristic AI robot, later this year
Samsung Samsung first revealed Ballie several years ago at CES 2020 — only for the home bot to go dark, before reemerging with a new design at CES 2024. At…
The Evolving (and Inexact) Science of Fleeing a Wildfire
As wildfires bore down on neighborhoods across Los Angeles this week, residents and authorities faced a wrenching and almost impossible challenge: convincing hundreds of thousands of people to leave their…
The TikTok Ban Is More Likely Than Ever
Soon after Biden signed the bill to ban TikTok in April, the company and a consortium of its users retaliated by filing lawsuits accusing the federal government of violating their…
I saw wireless earbuds that are also air purifiers, and they claim to be a maskless mask
Like many world-changing events, new applications of existing technology can lead to some interesting concepts. For example, the Covid-19 pandemic led to the creation of masks featuring audio components. The…
DJI’s Mic Mini might just have met its match: the tiny, logo-free Hollyland Lark M2S wireless mic
Hollyland announces new Lark M2S wireless mic to rival DJI and Rode The M2S is available in twin mic / receiver kits for around $139 / £130 It features a…
Researcher nets major reward for finding Facebook bug able to unlock the gates to its internal systems
A security flaw found in Facebook’s ad platform has been fixed by Meta The researcher who discovered the flaw was awarded a $100,000 bug bounty The flaw allowed the researcher…
NATO wants to build an alternative satellite-based internet to be used in case of emergency
Project HEIST wants to mitigate physical sabotaging of underwater cables HEIST is expected to use laser optics rather than radio Exabytes of data flow in more than 1 million Km…
The TikTok Ban Would Be Social Media’s First Extinction-Level Event
The Biden administration’s solicitor general, Elizabeth B. Prelogar, argued that Congress had every right to enact a ban, saying that the Chinese government could spy on Americans, in addition to…
Even Trump Can’t Stop America’s Green Transition, Says Biden’s Top Climate Adviser
The second is whether we’re continuing to deal more and more people into the transformation. We’ve got over 100,000 farmers and ranchers that are now taking on climate-smart agricultural practices.…