Most of the attendees at the Consumer Electronics Show, in January, were on the hunt for self-driving cars and improved smartphone cameras, but I arrived at the Las Vegas expo looking for high-tech innovations in beauty. I walked past the AI chemistry teachers and the robot puppy, and headed straight to the at-home lipstick maker…
As a high school student in the mid-1990s, Pace Nielsen encountered a mathematical question that he’s still struggling with to this day. But he doesn’t feel bad: The problem that captivated him, called the odd perfect number conjecture, has been around for more than 2,000 years, making it one of the oldest unsolved problems in…
I confess I was skeptical of a grill with Wi-Fi. Grills are about elemental things—wood, fire, meat—adding Wi-Fi to that seems almost sacrilegious. Grill-maker Traeger was undaunted though. The company has been offering Wi-Fi in its top-end pellet smokers for several years and has slowly added it to cheaper models, like the Ironwood 650.Turns out…
Two months before the presidential election, the US is bitterly divided—except about China. From both sides of the aisle, there are calls to disentangle the two countries’ high-tech economies. Democrats and Republicans use strikingly similar language to condemn China. There is bipartisan support for recent steps by the Trump administration, including tough controls on telecom…
Whether your computer runs Windows, macOS, or Chrome OS, you have options for how you log in. And your choice doesn’t only affect how convenient it is for you to get into your laptop or desktop; it also affects how easily someone else can gain access.These are the different login options that are available and…
Home News Gaming (Image credit: Microsoft/Sony) The PS5 will still beat both new Xbox consoles combined when it comes to sales, according to one analyst’s predictions.Piers Harding-Rolls of Ampere Analysis claims that by the end of the year, the PS5 will have sold 5 million units, while the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection proudly announced in a press release on Friday a seizure of 2,000 boxes of “counterfeit” Apple AirPods, said to be worth about $400,000, from a shipment at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. But the photos in the press release appear to show boxes of OnePlus Buds, the wireless…
I’m sitting here benchmarking NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition, which you can check out my unboxing right here, but now we have some juicy rumors on the Ampere-based TITAN RTX graphics card. The news is coming from Moore’s Law is Dead and his latest video that you can check out here, where he…
As the presidential election looms, Microsoft said on Thursday that Russia’s military intelligence hackers, often called Fancy Bear or APT28, have targeted more than 200 organizations since September 2019, many of them election-adjacent. The revelation is the latest indication that nation-state hacking groups like Fancy Bear, which also sowed chaos during the 2016 US presidential…
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.It was just before dawn as seven bulky men in T-shirts and sweatpants gathered in front of a towering glass building on Lexington Avenue in New York City. Marcelo Crespo, a 41-year-old with gleaming green eyes and a goatee, beckoned the group…
