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12 Ways to Upgrade Your Wi-Fi and Make Your Internet Faster
From Wi-Fi extenders to simple wall brackets, there's always something you can do to improve your...
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A New Way to See Your Climate Anxiety
The climate crisis has become a mental health crisis. But eco-anxiety isn’t necessarily a pathology.
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AI-Generated Fake News Is Coming to an Election Near You
Targeted, AI-generated political misinformation is already out there—and humans are falling for it.
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Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It
Police around the US say they're justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial...
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Scientists Will Test a Cancer-Hunting mRNA Treatment
Strand Therapeutics has figured out a way to turn the molecule on and off in certain...
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Why the Polar Vortex Is Bad for Balloon Artists
Leave a balloon out in the cold and it’ll shrink and look pathetic. Sorry, but that’s...
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Insta360’s Ace Pro Is a Versatile Camera for the Action Vlogger
With a Leica lens and an innovative, flip-up screen, the Ace Pro is ready for whatever...
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These Wireless Earbuds Are Positively Tiny but Otherwise Lackluster
The astonishingly tiny 1More Comfobuds Mini deliver uninspired sound and lower-than-average battery life.
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Cryptographers Are Getting Closer to Enabling Fully Private Internet Searches
Three researchers have found a long-sought way to pull information from large databases secretly. If the...
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The Incredible Disappearing TV
With see-through screens, roll-up displays, and TVs that disguise themselves as paintings, the race is on...
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This Game Console Gets the Whole Family Off the Couch
The Nex Playground uses motion tracking to put you in the game for family fun with...
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Fujitsu Bugs That Sent Innocent People to Prison Were Known ‘From the Start’
Software flaws were allegedly hidden from lawyers of wrongly convicted UK postal workers.
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Security News This Week: US Agencies Urged to Patch Ivanti VPNs That Are Actively Being Hacked
Plus: Microsoft says attackers accessed employee emails, Walmart fails to stop gift card fraud, “pig butchering”...
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You Can Take Sony’s Full Frame Camera Anywhere
The light, compact Sony A7C R is the perfect travel companion.
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The Last-Ditch Effort to Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline
The gas pipeline stretching across Virginia and West Virginia is over budget and behind schedule, with...
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13 Great Deals on Stand Mixers, Blenders, and Kitchen Essentials
Cook up some cozy meals this winter with discounts on our favorite appliances and accessories.
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The Stark Realities of Posting Your Layoff on TikTok
Workers are posting their layoff and termination meetings on TikTok, which can destigmatize the experience—but also...
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How the Mighty Heat Pump Is Helping (but Not Solving) EVs’ Cold Weather Problem
“Any electric vehicle that doesn’t have a heat pump is a dinosaur already,” one expert tells...
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Apple Shares the Secret of Why the 40-Year-Old Mac Still Rules
The pioneering PC revolutionized how people interact with computers. As the Mac enters its fifth decade,...
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A Glimpse at the Future of Streaming in 4 Mind-Blowing Stats
It seems all but inevitable that streamers are going to merge into mega-media entities in 2024....
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How to Opt Out of Comcast’s Xfinity Storing Your Sensitive Data
One of America’s largest internet providers may collect data about your political beliefs, race, and sexual...
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To Keep Gen Z, Companies Need to Level Up
The old playbook for power and control won’t work to retain Gen Z talent. Instead, employers...
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Inequality Is a Health Risk—and It’s Getting Worse
If not addressed by governments, racism, classism, austerity, and more will continue to drive mortality and...
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The One Part of the Vision Pro That Apple Doesn’t Want You to See
Apple’s latest series of Vision Pro demos carefully obscures one important hardware feature.