Five years later original HomePod, Apple finally felt it was time to release a successor. The second-generation HomePod breathes new life into the company’s smart home aspirations, bringing a new processor and improved sound quality, plus a temperature and humidity sensor, easier smart home automation, and support for Matter, a standard that aims to make...

Ted Shepherd, a climatologist at the University of Reading in the UK, knows what it’s like to arrive at a ski resort and find that the snow is somewhere else. This Christmas he went to Switzerland with his wife and her family. “She always loves to ski, but we couldn’t, really,” he says, recalling one...

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The Amazon was smitten with extraordinarily strong safety link by federal investigators in the US today. The findings appear to confirm what some employees at the company have long argued: that the online retail giant’s warehouses and fulfillment centers are designed for speed to exceed safety, often leading to lower back injuries and other musculoskeletal...

Medieval monks were in many ways the original power users of LinkedIn. Earnest and capable of self-promotion, they loved to read and share inspiring stories of other early Christians who showed remarkable dedication to their work. There was Sarah, who lived near the river, never once looking in her direction, such was her devotion to...

Reid last week Vilen, an elite gamer using the descriptor”Chicago” in rocket league, the popular vehicular soccer game, is facing a strange and unsettling new adversary. At first, the player appeared to be a rookie, hesitantly and clumsily moving the rocket vehicle. They then caught and perfectly balanced the ball on the hood of their...

People are complex machines with moving parts that flex, squish, stretch, flow, shake, and thrash. Scientists are now tapping into these energy sources to solve the common problem of sensors, wearables, and implanted medical devices—the dreaded dead battery. Self-powered devices, by design, could be the solution, and researchers have found that the human body itself...

“It’s pretty ingenious, because the minute the ad disappears, your attack stops, which means you won’t be easy to find,” Habibie explains. The scale of this was colossal: in June 2022, at the peak of the group’s activity, it was making 12 billion ad requests per day. Human Security reports that the attack primarily affected...

In past I took the phone from my fiancée about four times a week. The first few were when we visited The Met Cloisters in New York. I love taking pictures, so I borrowed her Pixel phone to capture some beautiful scenes. Next time we decided to order delicious chicken wings in the middle of...

The good news is that I’m a journalist, so I asked some artists, researchers, and art historians what they think of the aesthetics of AI art. First, I called Amelia Winger-Bearskin, an artist and professor at the University of Florida. Winger-Berskin was cataloging various visual trends she has noticed in recent AI art. She names...