We didn’t start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.) Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 years ago in what’s now Suffolk, England. Based on chemical analysis of the sediment at the site, along with the telltale…
“Redstone” is a promising mix of old and new ideas, but Nvidia is years ahead. Nvidia, AMD, and Intel have all made high-quality image upscaling a cornerstone feature of their new GPUs this decade. Upscaling technologies like Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS), AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), and…
“Abandonment” offers rare chance to reclaim one of tech’s most recognized brands. A Virginia startup calling itself “Operation Bluebird” announced this week that it has filed a formal petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office, asking the federal agency to cancel X Corporation’s trademarks of the words “Twitter”…
Help yourself to prizes by helping us raise money for good causes. It’s once again that special time of year when we give you a chance to do well by doing good. That’s right—it’s the 2025 edition of our annual Charity Drive! Every year since 2007, we’ve encouraged readers…
The “arbitrary and capricious” standard strikes down another administration action. On Monday, US District Court Judge Patti Saris vacated a Trump executive order that brought a halt to all offshore wind power development, as well as some projects on land. That order had called for the suspension of all…
Google will let you select and dismiss with a gesture, but only on the newest watch. Long ago, Google’s Android-powered wearables had hands-free navigation gestures. Those fell by the wayside as Google shredded its wearable strategy over and over, but gestures are back, baby. The Pixel Watch 4 is…
Backed by powerful corporations, nations are giving public false choices: Environmental protection or economic growth. Despite claims of environmental leadership and promises to preserve the Amazon rainforest ahead of COP30, Brazil is stripping away protections for the region’s vital ecosystems faster than workers dismantled the tents that housed the…
Latest results from a recently discovered ancient Roman construction site confirm earlier findings. Back in 2023, we reported on MIT scientists’ conclusion that the ancient Romans employed “hot mixing” with quicklime, among other strategies, to make their famous concrete, giving the material self-healing functionality. The only snag was that…
The Pebble Index 01 isn’t quite a smart ring, but it can do some smart things. Nearly a decade after Pebble’s nascent smartwatch empire crumbled, the brand is staging a comeback with new wearables. The Pebble Core Duo 2 and Core Time 2 are a natural evolution of the…
ICEBlock creator sues to protect apps that are crowd-sourcing ICE sightings. In a lawsuit filed against top Trump administration officials on Monday, Apple was accused of caving to unconstitutional government demands by removing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement-spotting app from the App Store with more than a million users.…
