Tech

Much of what we know about the events immediately in the wake of Return of the Jedi in contemporary Star Wars continuity has been left in broad strokes for almost as long as the rebooted canon has been around. In the run up to The Force Awakens, Lucasfilm’s transmedia initiatives made great strides to begin setting up … Read more

Dyson’s vacuums are top-tier for various reasons. They’re powerful, easy to maneuver, bagless, lightweight, and more. But a majority of these vacs are also very expensive. If you’ve been waiting for one to go on sale, you’re in luck. Right now (until December 31), you can get up to $200 off of one of its … Read more

TL;DR: Live stream Rigas FS vs. Galatasaray in the Europa League for free on Tabii. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN. This is special season for the Champions League, Europa League, and Conference League, because you can watch select fixtures from all three competitions without spending anything. That’s because … Read more

While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Amazon’s forthcoming Prime Day event, many great iPad deals are attainable outside those times. The day-to-day discounts may come and go like changing winds, but there’s often something to be saved, particularly on the more affordable iPads. What’s more, Apple released … Read more

The race is on for better chips and data center capacity to handle AI workloads, but all that activity comes with a catch. Heavy processing power means heat — a lot of it — and that has massive implications, both for how well servers operate and the environment.  With traditional cooling methods like air and … Read more

I never seem to have enough USB ports at hand, so I use UGREEN’s Revodok Max 213 Thunderbolt 4 docking station with my machine, and recently got Elgato’s USB Hub to connect to my Stream Deck+, providing two additional USB-C and two USB-A ports. Over the last two months, I used HiDock’s H1 alongside the … Read more

TL;DR Two college students have put facial recognition technology into the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The demo the students created can pull up personal information such as names, phone numbers, addresses, and family members. The demo shows off the scarier side of smart glasses. The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are impressive tech that allows a … Read more

After fifteen years of fighting to make the web safer and more accessible, the World Wide Web Foundation is shutting down. From a report: In a letter shared via the organization’s website, co-founders Sir Tim Berners-Lee — inventor of the World Wide Web — and Rosemary Leith explain that the organization’s mission has been somewhat … Read more

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has now raised $6.6 billion in a new funding round that values the company at $157 billion, nearly doubling its previous valuation of $86 billion, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The funding round comes with strings attached: Investors have the right to withdraw their money if … Read more

Google today announced an update for the summary card feature in Gmail, which is designed to provide helpful information at the top of incoming emails. Summary cards have a new look for purchases, events, bill, and travel emails, with Google adding new action buttons. With these action buttons, Gmail users can do things like add … Read more