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With the risk of infection rising, parents and young adults are facing agonizing choices about being out in public as school starts back up.

Macs are fantastic computers, but you’ll need one of these great displays to complete your work-from-home setup.

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The new extreme sport: Windows Updates

Job seekers are trying to game the application process using AI. It’s not working, and not for the reasons you might think.

Ugreen’s HomeAgent H100 Pro hub combines local storage, on-device AI, and a new voice assistant, Uliya, to run your smart home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Ugreen, known for its phone power banks, chargers, and NAS storage solutions, is moving into the smart home - in a big w...

The discovery adds to the planet’s history of strange atmospheric phenomena that scientists don’t full understand.

Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to fig...

Customer alleges AI telco system had frequent issues, did not work as promised, as vendor sues separately for non payment

There’s a new original movie streaming today on Apple TV: a new action-comedy called Mayday, starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh. Streaming for free with an Apple TV subscription, Mayday sees Troy (Reynolds) infiltrate Russian territory amidst the Cold War. Ex-KGB agent Nikolai (Branagh) ...

I love research and development, you may have heard of me because of PJON (Padded Jittering Operative Network). It is a network protocol I started developing in 2010, which was recently implemented in silicon by the ETH Zurich university thanks to the research of Pius Sieber. I am excited to shar...

A San Francisco “Hot List” is trying to buck stereotypes about dating in tech circles amid wider debates about the value of being perceived as attractive.

Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense

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RugOne's newest ruggedized phone has a waterproof action cam that you can remove.

Lexar’s slimmest-ever Muse drive aims for a barely there design that magnetically attaches to your iPhone for recording directly on the drive. But to achieve its petite 80×48×3.8 mm dimensions, it uses a proprietary cable and a magnetic sleeve for mounting.

RugOne's Xsnap 7 Pro comes with both an IP68 and IP69K rating, meaning the rugged phone can survive intense water blasts and complete submersion for up to 30 minutes. But what really sets the Xsnap 7 Pro apart from everything else on the market is that one of its three rear cameras can be removed...

After showing off several smart home firsts at CES, Aqara has returned to IFA with a major lineup of smart lighting compatible with both Zigbee and Thread. One of these new devices is the Floor Lamp T1, which trades the look of a typical lamp for an LED-equipped pole attached to a base. The lamp...

Following the lead of companies like Xteink, Lexar is the latest to sacrifice a USB-C port in the pursuit of slimming down its hardware. When the Lexar Muse Ultra-Slim Portable SSD launches later this year in 512GB and 1TB capacities it will be one of the slimmest you can buy. At its thickest poi...

Tesla has officially launched the Cybercab, its autonomous vehicle with no steering wheel.