When I test a kitchen appliance, I spend a ton of time thinking about the different kinds of people who’d use it. I keep little Venn diagrams in my mind, and see how much overlap there is between the different sets: tech geeks, busy people, people who like to cook, people who don’t like to…
In the first two months of 2019, Malte Schröder spent several weeks on a suburban Maryland college campus directing a dramatic scene that was set entirely inside a small styrofoam box. First, he set the stage by filling the box with thick fog, a thousand times denser than a cumulus cloud. Then—the lights. To illuminate…
Home News (Image credit: Samsung) We love the iPhone SE 2020, but it still has some weak points. Fortunately, if the problems with battery life or the lack of extra cameras are deal breakers for you, Samsung’s latest smartphone may be what you’re after.The Galaxy M31, featuring a 6,000 mAh battery and night-mode photography, was…
XCOM: Chimera Squad isn’t your normal kinda XCOM experience, and while in some ways (reduced scale, smaller missions) that’s a bummer, in other ways—namely the new “Breach” system—it has been an absolute pleasure to play.Nathan has played more of the game than I have, so definitely go and check out his impressions piece if you’d…
Launched Monday morning, the Pixel Buds were sold out a day later from most retailers. The US Google Store now has the Pixel Buds back in stock for $179. Those that ordered immediately at 9 a.m. PT from Google have received them over the course of today with expedited shipping. Buyers that selected the regular…
On Monday, the US Department of Defense officially released three videos depicting encounters between Navy pilots and unidentified aerial phenomena. These events occurred in 2004 and 2015, but the videos didn’t publicly surface until The New York Times included them with a front-page story about the Pentagon’s “mysterious UFO program” in 2017. The Navy previously…
Google has several different Google Assistant-powered smart speakers and smart displays in its smart home lineup, and right now they’re all on sale. The discounts vary with the model you choose, but they’re some of the best deals we’ve seen in a while. Smart speakers are convenient. You can use them to play music, check…
Look, we get it: Sheltering in place is a tremendous burden. If you’re lucky, you’re going stir crazy. The less fortunate have lost work or are struggling with mental illness. But governments do not take this strategy lightly: The best way to keep hospitals from getting overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients is to maintain social distancing.…
The novel coronavirus pandemic has stretched the world’s health care systems to their limits, creating a global crisis. New research from Microsoft shows that ransomware attackers are actively making that crisis worse, forcing health care and critical infrastructure organizations to pay up when they can least afford downtime. In many cases, hackers are reaping the…
Google’s Play Store for Android apps has never had a reputation for the strictest protections from malware. Shady adware and even banking trojans have managed over the years to repeatedly defy Google’s security checks. Now security researchers have found what appears to be a more rare form of Android abuse: state-sponsored spies who repeatedly slipped…
