Signs warning of health risks are posted outside the gates of an abandoned uranium mine in the community of Red Water Pond on Monday, January 13th, 2020. | Image: The Washington Post / contributor via Getty Images A new analysis of uranium and arsenic contamination in drinking water shows ugly evidence of how environmental racism persists in
Read MoreThe Schneider Pulse smart electrical panel, one component of this system. | Image: Schneider Electric I don’t know if Schneider Electric will be the one to crack it, but I like what it’s promising here at CES 2023 — a smart home where the electrical circuits themselves are smart enough to keep your house powered,
Read MoreNelson Wang / CoinDesk: The US SEC files a limited objection to Binance.US’ $1.02B bid for crypto lender Voyager’s assets, asking for sufficient details on how Binance plans to pay — The agency is asking for more details how the crypto exchange can afford the deal. — Join the most important conversation …
Read MoreCredit: Adam Birney / Android Authority Displace, a new start-up tech company has announced an upcoming 55-inch TV that’s completely wireless. It runs on four rechargeable and replaceable batteries, and it can be stuck on any wall without needing any other hardware. The company is already taking deposits for this new TV, which will launch
Read MoreCredit: MSI MSI announced a new version of its Titan GT77 gaming notebook at CES 2023. It includes the world’s first 4K 144Hz Mini LED display for a notebook. There’s no word on a price or release date for the new Titan GT77. If you want bragging rights in your PC gaming group, MSI has
Read MoreCredit: UltrabookReview Asus announced the 2023 Zenbook 14X at CES. This year’s laptop upgrades the display and adds Intel’s 13th-gen processors. The Zenbook 14X comes with a ceramic finish for the first time. Asus’s ultraportable, the Zenbook 14X OLED, has made an appearance at CES 2023. This year’s model appears to have gotten a bit
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon plans to lay off over 17,000 employees, more than the 10,000 workers it expected in November 2022, with new cuts starting over the coming weeks — New figure would be the largest number of cuts revealed so far at a major tech company — Amazon AMZN -0.79%decrease …
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Samsung’s SmartThings Station is a smart home hub, smart button, and wireless charger all in one. The product will support Matter accessories out of the box. It’s shipping to the US in early February 2023. Samsung is taking the wraps off the SmartThings Station, an unusual Matter-capable hub
Read MoreOver ten years ago, in April 2012, Google announced a new piece of hardware called Glass which was designed to provide the user with an always-on heads-up display. It could capture photos and video, give navigation directions, and show notifications, all while being controlled via voice commands.
Read MoreMonica Chin / The Verge: Asus unveils Vivobook Pro 16X and ProArt Studiobook 16 laptops, with 3.2K, 120Hz 16″ glasses-free 3D OLED displays — For some companies that sell gaming and creator-oriented laptops, glasses-free 3D has become a bit of a dream. Acer first tried it back in 2021.
Read MoreImage: TCL TCL is overhauling its TV strategy for 2023 by ditching the company’s long-running 6-Series, 5-Series, and 4-Series branding in favor of two new lines: higher-end sets will be part of the Q-Series, while more value-focused TVs will fall under the S-Series. Within the two segments are six different models in all. Let’s cover
Read MoreIf you didn’t grow up clutching Nintendo’s original DMG-01 Game Boy, it might difficult to see the appeal in 2023. It had the ergonomics of a brick, the system’s unlit LCD screen utilized a somewhat nauseating green color palette, and when compared to its contemporary competition like the Sega Game Gear or Atari Lynx, it
Read MoreYou probably hear it all the time: smartphones all look the same these days. We’ve gotten to the point where phones are almost interchangeable, with most sharing similar parts, designs, and features. Not all is lost, though, because an unlikely company could shake things up a bit.
Read MoreTCL’s NXTWear V headset concept is just one way the company hopes to put screens on your face. | Image: TCL TCL’s displays are in TVs, smartphones, and maybe in the near future, the metaverse, too. At least, the company wants to make the screen that gets you there. At CES 2023, the company is
Read MoreCredit: TCL TCL has announced its first 2023 smart TVs, and they will be sold in two model categories. The S-Series will be the new TCL budget TVs, while the Q-Series will include more advanced features such as QLED screens. Pricing and release dates for these 2023 TCL smart TVs have yet to be announced.
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority At CES 2023, TCL launched its 40 series phones. The TCL 40 SE is the phone most likely to come to the US, with a low price and budget specs. Specific pricing and availability wasn’t available. Early CES 2023 announcements are dropping at a rapid pace right now.
Read MoreThomas Germain / Gizmodo: In another wrongful arrest using erroneous facial recognition matches, a Black man in Georgia was jailed for a week due to a warrant secured by Louisiana cops — An algorithm sent a Black man to jail in Louisiana, a state he’d never visited, according to his lawyer. Experts say he won’t
Read More(Credit: Ramon Costa/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) (Credit: Ramon Costa/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Google has been the only search engine of consequence for coming up on two decades, but Microsoft hasn’t given up. Bing is still online and ready to accept your search queries, and if a new report is accurate, it might answer your
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Almost twenty car manufacturers and services contained API flaws that could have allowed hackers to access customers’ data and unlock, start, and track cars — Almost twenty car manufacturers and services contained API security vulnerabilities that could have allowed hackers to perform malicious activity …
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google has announced that it will support the RISC-V architecture. This is an alternative computing architecture to Arm, which powers virtually all smartphones. Android only supports two computing architectures right now, namely Arm and x86. The former architecture is used in chips powering smartphones, most tablets, smartwatches, and TV
Read More(Photo: PCMag)The rebranded RTX 4080 12GB launches tomorrow, Jan. 5. as the RTX 4070 Ti, with $100 knocked off its price tag. Our sister site PCMag has run it through its paces, and we honestly feel like we could just use a text replacement query from the RTX 4080 16GB review. Control+F for 4080, insert
Read MoreJack Schickler / CoinDesk: US officials say the DOJ has seized or is in the process of seizing assets linked to FTX, including ~$450M in Robinhood shares whose ownership is being disputed — Officials may later seek to have Sam Bankman-Fried forfeit the assets, potentially including as much as $450 million in stocks, to avoid
Read MoreNanoleaf has announced five new products that are all compatible with the Matter smart home standard.
Read MoreImage: Vox Media Podcast Network Like how your swipes feel great but your dates feel bad? Or how you’ve been pushed to delete them all off your homescreen, only to redownload them a few weeks later? Have you ever wondered if this cycle is by design? Last summer, New York Magazine published an entire issue
Read MorePhoto by Melissa Sue Gerrits / Getty Images I hope you all had a relaxing holiday break. My body is not ready to be back at work, but Hot Pod won’t write itself. For our first issue of the year, Donald Trump Jr. signs with Rumble, PodcastOne is becoming a separate public company, and De
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