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Friday August 16, 2024. 02:08 PM
Our favorite bike locks for every ride, including new locks designed to thwart angle grinders.
It’s been a week since Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, competed in the breaking competition at the Paris Olympics. The memes—and the controversy—haven’t stopped since.
Sarah Palin, chosen by GOP candidate John McCain in 2008 as his Vice Presidential nominee, became a warning of the real-world unpopularity of populist right wingers. She sharply limited the ticket's appeal to moderates and helped Barack Obama win a decisive victory. — Read...
The Zeromouse v35 is a $70 kit you can buy that results in the lightest mouse known to gaming—just 16 grams! It requires that you procure a Razer Viper V2 Pro—a $130 proposition by itself—and then harvest its guts. What you get is an extremely lightweight, alarmingly...
Whatever your higher-ed goals, these campus-ready computers will help you crush them.
There can be only one … annoying management technique Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has penned a blog that gives further insight into the inner workings of the software titan under Bill Gates's leadership.…
World in Dots generates maps of the world—with dots!—and offers nice customization options. Above, a basic example, like the backdrop to a midcentury newsroom. Below, Burkina Faso in cyan hexagons on a field of purple. Useful for, say, wargame maps, perhaps? — Read the...
'You're doing nothing' tells you how long you've been doing it, too. The idea is to 'motivate' the user to do something but to me it works just fine as an encouragement not to do anything at all, like a workplace sign boasting of how long it's been since the last industrial...
Elon Musk's declaration of war on his own advertisers exposes a grim reality for 'X', writes Fortune magazine, which quotes financier Bradford Ferguson saying he expects Musk to liquidate billions of dollars in Tesla stock to keep it in business. 'I would be expecting...
The Epic Games Store gives iPhone users in the EU an alternative to Apple’s App Store for the first time.
The forthcoming game’s inclusion of a Black samurai named Yasuke has caused a controversy in the gaming world, one that has a familiar ring to it.
A US judge is set to force Google to more widely open up Android phones to competing app stores. But as I found, app stores vying for supremacy could leave Android users confused and worried about security.
SSDs are now the most common type of hard drive in both laptops and desktop PCs. They’re compact, they’re quite, and they outperform traditional hard drives by a mile — but they also tend to slow down over time (and eventually stop working altogether). But it’s not...
Laptops are used for all sorts of things in college. In addition to completing assignments and researching topics, they’re also used for general web browsing as well as streaming the hottest shows and playing games. That said, graphic design majors (depending on what their ...
Future of low carbon sustainable tech? Not so fast, this is still a trial and only for backup power Equinix is moving forward with trials of fuel cell technology as an alternative backup power source, revealing it has a demonstration unit at one of its facilities in Dublin,...
Britain is plagued by sluggish productivity, with the Office of National Statistics (ONS) reporting UK productivity growth as 'anaemic' for the past 15 years. And things are getting worse, not better. In London -- the country's largest and richest regional economy -- output...
A 43-year-old Jordanian national, Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, was arrested in Orlando, Florida, and charged with threatening to use explosives and destroying a solar power facility. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the charges could result in up to 60 years in...
Some electric car brands are hemorrhaging value, with the worst losing as much as $600 a day. In this investigation, WIRED outlines the models to watch, why this is happening, and how you could game the market to your advantage.
One of my favorite Windows features, Windows Sandbox, is finally testing some new features that I’d characterize as something like an improved airlock. I think of Windows Sandbox in the same vein that I do a VPN: While a VPN encrypts and hides your connection from prying...
“Sal awakens; she smells coffee. A few minutes ago her alarm clock, alerted by her restless rolling before waking, had quietly asked ‘coffee?’ and she mumbled ‘yes.’ ‘Yes’ and ‘no’ are the only words it knows.” Then, the alarm clock tells the...
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