Google’s X “moonshot factory” this week announced its latest graduate. Heritable Agriculture is a data- and machine learning-driven startup aiming to improve how crops are grown. As the firm noted in an announcement post published Tuesday, plants are incredibly efficient and impressive systems. “Plants are solar powered, carbon negative, self-assembling machines that feed on sunlight … Read more
Phone cases are a dime a dozen, and most don’t go out of the way to look too unique. Occasionally, you might find a really nice thin case or one that slaps your favorite movie characters on the back, but what if you removed 90% of the case and could still protect your phone? I … Read more
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority When a new smartphone launches, we often spend a lot of time talking about its internal hardware specs and what it can do that most other phones cannot. However, the first thing anyone ever notices about a phone is how it looks, and that has a significant bearing on … Read more
In 2023, Microsoft began including a free VPN feature in its “Microsoft Defender” security app for all Microsoft 365 subscribers (“Personal” and “Family”). Originally Microsoft had “called it a privacy protection feature,” writes the blog Windows Central, “designed to let you access sensitive data on the web via a VPN tunnel.” But…. Unfortunately, Microsoft has … Read more
Back in August, I cavalierly said that AI couldn’t design a car if it hadn’t seen one first, and I alluded to Henry Ford’s apocryphal statement “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” I’m not backing down on any of that, but the history of technology is always … Read more
Networks protected by Ivanti VPNs are under active attack by well-resourced hackers who are exploiting a critical vulnerability that gives them complete control over the network-connected devices. Hardware maker Ivanti disclosed the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-0282, on Wednesday and warned that it was under active exploitation against some customers. The vulnerability, which is being exploited … Read more
January has come to a close, with Apple pushing out iOS 18.3 and related software updates in the final week of the month to deliver some refinements for Apple Intelligence, security fixes, and more. We’re looking ahead to more substantial updates with iOS 18.4, while we also shared news and rumors about AirPods and the … Read more
Table of Contents Table of Contents How can smartwatches assist? Fixing sedentary behavior Sleep, obesity, and nutrition What experts say The American Heart Association just released its 2025 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics Update report with some critically important stats. It mentions that heart-related diseases, which are on an upward trajectory across the globe, are … Read more
Summary You can sync cloud files locally on your Windows device for major cloud storage solutions like OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox. Syncing cloud files locally will enable you to view and edit them offline when you experience an internet outage while working from home. The files will be resynced and merged with the online … Read more
The 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge was a spectacular failure. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency had offered a US $1 million prize for the team that could design an autonomous ground vehicle capable of completing an off-road course through sometimes flat, sometimes winding and mountainous desert terrain. As IEEE Spectrumreported at the time, it was “the … Read more