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Phones

OnePlus 9 Pro review: A true flagship Android device

The OnePlus 9 Pro offers a beautiful screen, improved camera performance, and absurdly fast charging.

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Headphones

Sennheiser IE 900 review: A one-driver wonder

The Sennheiser IE 900 earphones are a small miracle that leave a big impression.

Night owls can become early birds. Here’s how.
Health

Night owls can become early birds. Here’s how.

Fighting biology is hard.

The Mission R is an electric Porsche race car meant for livestreaming
Electric Vehicles

The Mission R is an electric Porsche race car meant for livestreaming

The concept vehicle, which will do 0 to 60 in under 2.5 seconds, has a steering wheel that will measure the driver's heart rate—and broadcast it.

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Weather

Why Ida drenched the Northeast—and what that means for future storms

As the planet heats up, hurricanes will become more intense.

Google headquarters in Mountain View, California
Sustainability

Are ‘water positive’ pledges from tech companies just a new kind of greenwashing?

In response to historic droughts, Google and Facebook say they want to use less water at their data centers

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Projects

A guide to easy, healthy school lunches that kids will eat

Give them some variety.

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Environment

This EPA unit fights terrorism with science

It's not all about hugging trees

Your WhatsApp messages will soon be secure—for real this time
Security

Your WhatsApp messages will soon be secure—for real this time

An important change is coming to the way in which copies of your chats are stored in the cloud when you back up your device.

a statue of a firefighter sits with the One World Trade Center tower in the background
Health

What 20 years of screening 9/11 first responders for health risks has taught us

They were the first at the scene on 9/11. Twenty years later, they're helping us learn the long-term health consequences.

passenger plane security since 9/11
Aviation

The post-9/11 flight security changes you don’t see

A shift in attitude towards handling hijackings is just one of the many complex and often controversial changes instituted over the past 20 years.

To prevent catastrophic global warming, we need to leave fossils fuels in the ground
Fossil Fuels

To prevent catastrophic global warming, we need to leave fossils fuels in the ground

A majority of reserves must be left alone.

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Gaming

Turtle Beach Recon Xbox controller review: Wired for sound

Turtle Beach’s first controller has headsets on the brain.

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Ask Us Anything

A complete guide on how to safely take, send, and store nudes

Where sexy and cybersecurity overlap.

Biden’s new COVID vaccine mandates, explained
Vaccines

Biden’s new COVID vaccine mandates, explained

Cheaper at-home tests are also in the works.

The US Navy launched a missile from a ghost ship. Wait, what?
Self Driving

The US Navy launched a missile from a ghost ship. Wait, what?

The uncrewed ship is called the USV Ranger, and it's part of the Ghost Fleet Overlord program.

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Ask Us Anything

What is a hangover? And can you cure it?

We get into all the nauseating details.

New Orleans’ billion-dollar levees survived Hurricane Ida. Can they handle what’s coming?
Climate Change

New Orleans’ billion-dollar levees survived Hurricane Ida. Can they handle what’s coming?

The new levees, floodwalls, and other upgrades were a multi-billion dollar investment. Here's why they were worth it.

This ancient ‘mothership’ used probing ‘fingers’ to scrape the ocean floor for prey
Animals

This ancient ‘mothership’ used probing ‘fingers’ to scrape the ocean floor for prey

The newly reported species might have used its giant carapace and fingerlike claws to scour the seafloor.

Two dinosaur heads in profile, the one below about half the size of the one above.
Dinosaurs

New fossil reveals a fearsome shark-toothed dinosaur

The new dino was five times bigger than local tyrannosaurs and the first to be discovered in Central Asia.