
Wired - 5 hours 37 min ago
The Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2 have the best active noise cancellation on the market, and they very rarely get cheaper.

Ars Technica - 5 hours 44 min ago
How does HEVC implementation really work these days?...

Newser - 5 hours 56 min ago
A woman's death and an in-flight fire have triggered an updated recall of a portable wireless phone charger containing a lithium-ion battery. Federal regulators and phone accessory brand Casely this week reannounced the recall of about 429,000 Casely Power Pods 5000mAh MagSafe wireless chargers after a 75-year-old New Jersey...

The Next Web - 5 hours 57 min ago
The deal is an internal Blackstone consolidation, both AirTrunk (acquired for A$24 billion in 2024) and Lumina CloudInfra (launched by Blackstone in 2022) sit within the same portfolio. By folding Lumina into AirTrunk, Blackstone gives its Asia-Pacific data centre platform a foothold in India's hyperscale market without a third-party acquisition. Terms were not disclosed. AirTrunk, […] This story continues at The Next Web...

Vox - 6 hours 14 min ago
Vice President JD Vance holds a highly sophisticated tracking device that the government can use to monitor his every move. | Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images Check your pocket. You're probably carrying a tracking device that will allow the police or even the Trump administration to track every move that you make. If you use a cellphone, you are unavoidably revealing your location all the time. Cellphones typically receive service by connecting to a nearby communications tower or other "cell...

Sky News - 6 hours 19 min ago
Environmental activists staged a renewable energy demonstration at one of US President Donald Trump's golf courses in Scotland.

Newser - 7 hours 56 min ago
Classrooms might be becoming more fun, but it's at the expense of real learning, according to history professor Molly Worthen, who contends that heavy reliance on educational technology is setting children up for failure. In a New York Times opinion piece, Worthen argues that the last decade's push to put...

Newser - 8 hours 41 min ago
A humanoid robot that won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing on Sunday ran faster than the human world record in a show of China's technological leaps. The winner from Honor, a Chinese smartphone maker, completed the 13-mile race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, according to a WeChat...

The Guardian - 10 hours 44 min ago
Quality wifi bookshelf speaker can go mobile with Bluetooth, long battery life and water resistance, in return to form The Play is a new portable wifi and Bluetooth home speaker that packs the best of Sonos into a jack of all trades that is intended to be a reset point in the company's recovery from its app debacle that lost it faith, favour and a chief executive. It is the first truly new music speaker since Sonos launched its new app in May 2024, which junked fan-favourite features while causing...

The Guardian - 12 hours 44 min ago
I was a newcomer, negotiating all of the usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack By Peter C Baker. Read by Adam Sims Continue reading...

ABC News - 14 hours 50 min ago
Running the Boston Marathon is tough enough without having to jostle your way from Hopkinton to Copley Square...

NBC News - 18 hours 31 min ago
Robots raced against humans in Beijing's half marathon and the machines made huge strides. It marks the second time that robots have shared the course with humans. NBC News' Janis Mackey Frayer reports on who crossed the finish line first.

New York Times - 22 hours 43 min ago
Cerebras makes specialized computer chips for building artificial intelligence technologies and delivering them to businesses and consumers.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 3 hours ago
In 1627, a year after the death of the philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon , a short, evocative tale of his was published. The New Atlantis describes how a ship blown off course arrives at an unknown island called Bensalem. At its heart stands Salomon's House, an institution devoted to "the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things" and to "the effecting of all things possible." The novel captured Bacon's vision of a science built on skepticism and empiricism...

NY Post - 1 day 10 hours ago
Not only had the number of participating teams increased from 20 to more than 100, but several robot frontrunners were noticeably faster than professional athletes, beating the human winners by more than 10 minutes.

Variety - 2 days 1 hour ago
On today’s episode of Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” Aleen Dreksler, CEO and founder of Betches Media, details the digital media brand’s origin story and why it blossomed into a hub for comedy and community designed for women. The episode also features a separate conversation from the SXSW festival that highlighted Variety‘s recent 10 Creators to Watch […]...

Vox - 2 days 4 hours ago
Job seekers attend a career fair in Harlem hosted by Assemblymember Jordan Wright on December 10, 2025, in New York City. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images Devon Fritz had his midlife crisis a little early. He spent his 20s writing tax software, staying on track to hit all the life targets he’d set for himself: house, kids, financial security. And then, one day, he did the math and projected forward what the next 20 years of his life would look like. But instead of relief, "I had this weird...

The Atlantic - 2 days 4 hours ago
Pastor John Mark Comer has won a massive following by preaching about the ills of technology.

NPR - 2 days 5 hours ago
New data shows opening weekend matters less as TikTok buzz drives long-term box office. Studios and theaters are leaning into the trend as the industry rebounds from pandemic losses, strikes and streaming pressure.

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 6 hours ago
Rising gas prices are eating into the profits of gig workers who drop off people or pick up deliveries.

Sky News - 2 days 7 hours ago
A Scottish man has pleaded guilty to plotting to hack into the computer systems of 12 companies to steal at least $8m (£5.9m) in virtual currency from US victims.

The Guardian - 2 days 9 hours ago
Elisabeth Zetland, a senior researcher at MyHeritage, found that the actual Luigi has immigrated to US from Italy The Washington state businessman who inspired Nintendo to give the name Mario to its mustachioed, superhero plumber did not have a brother named Luigi like the fictional video game star famously does. But it has only just been determined that Nintendo may have unknowingly named its mascot's brother after another of the real-life Mario's close relatives: his father, Luigi, whose...

BBC - 2 days 16 hours ago
President Donald Trump previously railed against the company for rejecting broad government demands.