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Drones

These tiny electric fans are powerful enough to propel drones and jets

Whisper Aero is spinning up something interesting in the world of aerospace—and lawn care.

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Appliances

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Tech Hacks

The best ways to transfer photos from an Android to a computer

Skip the cloud—you can back up your photos and videos right on your laptop or desktop machine.

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Social Media

How ActivityPub is setting the stage to weave all your social media feeds together

Meta’s Threads could be the next to use this decentralized social networking protocol.

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Robots

Four-legged dog robots could one day explore the moon

Built-in redundancies may enable teams of quadruped dog bots to explore the lunar surface.

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AI

Google stole data from millions of people to train AI, lawsuit says

The class action filing is going after Google for scraping 'virtually the entirety of our digital footprint.'

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Home

The best robot vacuums

Here’s what to look for when you’re shopping, plus a few of our favorite models.

An image of the northern Gulf of Mexico created from remote-sensing reflectance and chlorophyll measurements taken from newly reprocessed VIIRS data. Green water is seen closer to the coast, while it gets darker and more blue further out.
Ocean

Scientists say the ocean is changing color—and it’s probably our fault

The shift in hue could be an indicator of changing conditions at the ocean’s surface.

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Technology

Only 1 in 10 classic video games are publicly accessible today

More American silent films are preserved than vintage video games, according to a new study.

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Peripherals

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Ocean

Some sea snakes may not be colorblind after all

The original snake species lost the ability to see advanced color 110 million years ago.

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Tech Hacks

How to use mouse keys to navigate your computer with only your keyboard

Mouse died? Trackpad not responding? No problem.

JWST composite image of barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068, showing its core and part of a spiral arm. Clumps and filaments of dust, represented in a mossy green color, form an almost skeletal structure that follow the twist of the galaxy and its spiral arm.
Exoplanets

15 remarkable JWST images that reveal the wonders of our vast universe

The telescope has transported us to Jupiter's ghostly rings, the 'Cosmic Cliffs,' and a starry hourglass. Where to next?

Influenza Ward No. 4 showing Partitions thru the Ward, U.S. Army Camp Hospital Number 45, Aix-les-Bains, France, 1914-1918
Diseases

How the 1918 pandemic changed what we knew about viruses

The science of viruses, born out of the 20th century's deadliest pandemic, launched medical thinking in a dramatically new direction, saving countless lives in the decades to come.

Sprinkle-filled birthday cake with lit multi-colored candles. Biological age is different from the chronological age measured by birthdays.
Diseases

Why you might feel older than you actually are

Your chronological age, biological age, and epigenetic age can run on different timelines.

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Weapons

The terrible history behind cluster munitions

Here's exactly why cluster munitions, which the US is sending to Ukraine, present such an enduring risk to civilians.

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AI

AI plagiarism detectors falsely flag non-native English speakers

'If AI-generated content can easily evade detection while human text is frequently misclassified, how effective are these detectors truly?'

This is an artist impression of exoplanet LTT9779b orbiting its host star. The host star is located on the left as a large white circle with rays coming out of it in orange. The exoplanet is smaller and shown on the right of the image. The side of the exoplanet that is facing its host star is illuminated. The planet is around the size of Neptune and reflects 80% of the light shone on it, making it the largest known “mirror” in the Universe. The background of the image is black and speckled across the image is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes
Exoplanets

The Milky Way’s shiniest known exoplanet has glittering metallic clouds

Dare to stare at this Neptune-sized 'mirror.'

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Security

Massachusetts proposes ban on the sale of cell phone location data

The Location Shield Act could curtail the third-party access to consumers' private data.