Everyone loves a good flagship phone — they get the best cameras, the fastest charging, and the best materials that an (increasingly large) pile of money can buy. I’m no different. I love to keep a Pixel 9 Pro or an iPhone 16 in my pocket, and I try to spend a few months of
Read MoreAnker’s smart home brand eufy is combining two of the best vacuum designs into the E20 vacuum: a robot vacuum for autonomy and a hand-held/stick vacuum for a high-performance, targeted clean. But how does this novel hybrid stack up compared to the best robot vacuums out there? I tested it in my home to find
Read MoreI wonder if this person is a better shot than most Stormtroopers. | Image: EA and Disney Star Wars Zero Company will release sometime in 2026, according to an announcement from Disney and EA. The game’s title was revealed earlier this week. Alongside the release year, the two companies also shared a bit more information
Read MoreLongtime Slashdot reader hackingbear shares a report from Interesting Engineering: A research team at Fudan University in Shanghai, China has built the fastest semiconductor storage device ever reported, a nonvolatile flash memory dubbed “PoX” that programs a single bit in 400 picoseconds (0.0000000004 s) — roughly 25 billion operations per second. Conventional static and dynamic
Read MoreBack in the olden days, there existed physical game stores, which in addition to physical games would also have kiosks where you could try out the current game consoles and handhelds. Generally these kiosks held the console, a display and any controllers if needed. After a while these kiosks would get scrapped, with only a
Read MoreBack in the olden days, there existed physical game stores, which in addition to physical games would also have kiosks where you could try out the current game consoles and handhelds. Generally these kiosks held the console, a display and any controllers if needed. After a while these kiosks would get scrapped, with only a
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Mechanics: American composer Alvin Lucier was well-known for his experimental works that tested the boundaries of music and art. A longtime professor at Wesleyan University (before retiring in 2011), Alvin passed away in 2021 at the age of 90. However, that wasn’t the end of his lifelong
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Mechanics: American composer Alvin Lucier was well-known for his experimental works that tested the boundaries of music and art. A longtime professor at Wesleyan University (before retiring in 2011), Alvin passed away in 2021 at the age of 90. However, that wasn’t the end of his lifelong
Read MoreNASA astronaut Catherine Coleman gives ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli a haircut in the Kibo laboratory on the ISS in 2011. (Credit: NASA) Although we tend to see mostly the glorious and fun parts of hanging out in a space station, the human body will not cease to do its usual things, whether it involves the
Read MoreOpenAI’s latest reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, hallucinate more frequently than the company’s previous AI systems, according to both internal testing and third-party research. On OpenAI’s PersonQA benchmark, o3 hallucinated 33% of the time — double the rate of older models o1 (16%) and o3-mini (14.8%). The o4-mini performed even worse, hallucinating 48% of the
Read MoreBluesky is testing a new verification system featuring blue checks issued by “Trusted Verifiers” like news organizations, rather than a centralized authority or pay-to-play model like X (formerly Twitter). “Looking at the comments on the pull request, it’s clear this idea has sparked a lot of discussion and a lot of concern among the community
Read MoreBluesky is testing a new verification system featuring blue checks issued by “Trusted Verifiers” like news organizations, rather than a centralized authority or pay-to-play model like X (formerly Twitter). “Looking at the comments on the pull request, it’s clear this idea has sparked a lot of discussion and a lot of concern among the community
Read MoreHow far can you stretch a measuring tape before it buckles? The answer probably depends more on the tape than the user, but it does show how sturdy the coiled spring steel rulers can be. [Gengzhi He et. al.] may have been playing that game in the lab at UC San Diego when they hit
Read MoreNintendo said today that Switch 2 preorders in the US will begin on April 24th ahead of the console’s June 5th launch day, and now GameStop, Target, and Walmart have shared exactly when you can try to snag a preorder. GameStop said on X that in-store Nintendo Switch preorders will start when “doors open” on
Read MoreMotorola’s next foldables are set to debut on Thursday, April 24. The Moto Razr Plus 2025 / Razr 60 Ultra has already leaked in some detail, and now we have additional imagery. Specs included with this new find largely correspond with a leak from earlier this week. Motorola is set to introduce its next generation
Read MoreNintendo announced today that Switch 2 preorders will begin on April 24th, and now Target and GameStop have shared when you can try to buy one. Target’s Nintendo Switch 2 preorders in the US will kick off on April 24th at 12AM ET, according to Target’s website. The preorder time applies to consoles, games, and
Read MoreA new report from Seagate reveals that hard drives significantly outperform solid-state drives in environmental impact metrics, challenging common industry assumptions about storage sustainability. According to Seagate’s “Decarbonizing Data” report released this month [PDF], standard hard drives produce just 29.7 kg of embodied carbon dioxide compared to a staggering 4,915 kg for equivalently sized data
Read MoreThe Trump administration and DOGE tried to cut more than 1,400 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. An employee union and other groups are fighting to keep the regulator intact.
Read MoreCredit: Nothing CMF by Nothing has once again shared a teaser of the CMF Phone 2 Pro. This teaser provides a peek at the triple rear camera setup. Among all the smartphone brands, it seems like no company loves doing teasers more than Nothing. The company’s sub-brand plans to launch the CMF Phone 2 Pro,
Read MoreThe Apple Watch Series 11 will probably arrive this fall alongside the iPhone 17. Here’s what the next generation of Apple’s smartwatch could bring to the table. The Apple Watch Series 11 could look a lot like the Series 10 The Apple Watch is much like the iPhone and other products in Apple’s ecosystem, in
Read MoreThe toggle to enable the Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock feature is missing from Android 16 Beta 4, but it’s still possible to enable it via a hidden command. Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock allows Pixel phones to use fingerprint unlock even when their screens are off. The feature was first introduced in Android 16 DP2 for the Pixel
Read MoreThe Roomba Combo 10 Max is a highly capable robot vacuum and mop that practically maintains itself. Wouldn’t it be nice to tidy up your home without breaking a sweat? The Roomba Combo 10 Max robovac / mop hybrid can make that dream a reality, as it delivers an almost fully hands-free cleaning experience. And
Read MoreCredit: Epic Games Epic Games Store for mobile users can download two new free games. Botanicula and Firestone: Online Idle RPG will remain free until April 24. Epic is offering exclusive bonus content for Firestone. If you’re a mobile gamer, it’s hard to overlook the Epic Games Store. Since March, the app has been delivering
Read MoreCompared to today, the mid-2010s seem like such an innocent and naive time on the internet. People were making Vines and hotly debating the color of a dress, but there was also some mischief on the rise. Somewhere between the peak of 4chan trolling culture and the growing cult of Apple, a bizarre trend emerged:
Read MoreApple’s 2025 iPad refresh doesn’t bring anything new to the table, but it’s still the best tablet for most people.
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