Here’s a confession: Over the past week, I’ve been mostly neglecting the AI features on Google’s Pixel 9 series.
As before, those features range from marginally useful to superfluous to just plain awkward. In day-to-day use, it’s easy to forget that they even exist. Instead, I’ve been marveling at how great the Pixels 9 are in every other way—in particular ho
Drivers around the town of Brownsville, Texas have gotten a bit of a shock over the past few days, as a Cybertruck has been spotted hauling around a nine-foot sculpture of Elon Musk.
Even in the Musk-friendly
The ads swept across Facebook and Instagram feeds last month, mostly in battleground states, just three days after the attempted assassination on Donald Trump. Above a now iconic image of the former president raising his fist, “Never Surrender!” and “Stand with Donald Trump!” they declared. Below Trump, large red banners beckoned people to register to vote.
The nearly $900,000 ad blitz
An apparent cyberattack disrupted internet, phones, email and other systems at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for a third day on Monday as Port of Seattle officials worked to investigate the outages and restore full service.
“We’re working around the clock to get necessary systems back online and to mitigate impacts to our passengers,” the airport’s av
On a hot summer day in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, dozens of men removed pipes, asbestos, and hazardous waste while working to decontaminate a nuclear facility and prepare it for demolition.
Dressed in head-to-toe coveralls and fitted with respirators, the c
NASA’s announcement Saturday that it won’t use a troubled Boeing capsule to return two stranded astronauts to Earth is yet another setback for the struggling company, although the financial damage is likely to be less than the reputational harm.
Once a symbol of American engine
Uber has been fined €290 million ($324 million) in the Netherlands for improperly sending driver data from Europe to the U.S. in violation of EU rules, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) said Monday.
Uber failed to “appropriately safeguard” its data on drivers, which the DPA said was a “serious violation” of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (
Niantic is hoping to make 3D scans go viral.
The company on Monday released Scaniverse 4, the latest version of its app that allows users to capture 3D scans of their environments or particular objects, from statues in a nearby park to a home-cooked meal. The new app version encourages users to upload photos taken in public places to a public map, where others can use them to plan vacations, reminisce about favorite spots in their hometowns, or
Although I own three Sonos speakers—Move, Roam, and Beam—I’ve been less caught up in the brouhaha the new Sonos app than a lot of other folks.
It’s not that I love the new app, which by most accounts is a buggy, unreliable, intuitive mess with fewer features than the old Sonos app it replaced, it’s just that I don’t use it all that
SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission is poised to make history this week with the first privately managed spacewalk, a risky endeavour previously undertaken only by government astronauts.
Two of the mission’s four-member crew will venture out of their Crew Dragon capsule in Earth’s orbit for a tethered spacewalk, marking the first major test of