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The One RFID Smart Feeder from Petlibro shows just how far automatic cat-feeding technology has come. For this feeder, the pet wears a collar with a tag in which the feeder’s lid opens only with that tag. There’s a cover that retracts automatically when the pet with the collar approaches the stainless steel food bowl … Read more

The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times‘ revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe. With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who … Read more

Blue Origin is preparing to launch its NS-27 mission with the RSS Kármán Line, its new crew capsule, on Monday at 9AM ET. It will be the first launch for the capsule, which the company says in its announcement will have improved performance and reusability, along with “an updated livery, and accommodations for payloads on … Read more

A woman in Ohio is being haunted by ghosts. Or maybe she’s not. There’s a dead body buried underneath her house, rolled up inside a rug. Or there’s actually no body at all, despite signals from cadaver dogs. This week’s biggest drama on TikTok tells the story of a woman from Ohio who was building … Read more

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days are October 8th and 9th, which means this week will be one of the biggest shopping days of 2024. Outside of Black Friday, Amazon Prime Days are when you will find some of the best prices on the things you’ve been looking for and even the things you had no … Read more

Ryan Haines / Android Authority I’ve been a Google Pixel fan for a long time. Part of that fandom means I’ve been using and enjoying RCS in Google Messages for about as long as it’s been available. I’ve also been listening to Google beg Apple to “get the message” for years, but I was never … Read more

“Can you believe that we’ve been demanding user freedom since 1985?” asks a new blog post at FSF.org: Today, we’re celebrating our thirty-ninth anniversary, the “lace year,” which represents the intertwined nature and strength of our relationship with the free software community. We wouldn’t be here without you, and we are so grateful for everyone … Read more

“SimpleX, at its core, is designed to be truly distributed with no central server. This allows for enormous scalability at low cost, and also makes it virtually impossible to snoop on the network graph,” Poberezkin wrote in a company blog post published in 2022. SimpleX’s policies expressly prohibit “sending illegal communications” and outline how SimpleX … Read more

It’s hard to believe we’re already into October with the iPhone 16 launch behind us, but there’s lots more still to come from Apple this year on both the hardware and software fronts. We’re still expecting a number of Mac and perhaps some iPad updates in the very near future, while Apple Intelligence features are … Read more

Warner Bros. In terms of traumatic childhoods, few movie characters have ever had it as bad as Danny Torrance. The young psychic child at the center of The Shining is not only relentlessly preyed upon one winter by the malevolent ghosts of a haunted hotel, but he and his mother are also nearly killed by … Read more