Month: May 2025
A compact biodegradable battery with fungal paper electrodes is what researchers at this university are dreaming of
Mycelium might power electronics someday, if it stops biodegrading before the job is done The split-gill mushroom’s extracellular matrix may be the key to future green batteries Scientists dream of compostable batteries, but controlling fungal behavior remains a major challenge Researchers from Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science…
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I discovered the world’s smallest external SSD, and at just 2.8g, it is dangerously small enough to be mistaken for a yummy snack
Suneast Portable SSD Nano is smaller than a coin Weighing just 2.8g, the drive is easy to carry and just as easy to lose Read and write speeds are decent, but far from what power users might expect today We’ve seen some impressively small SSDs over the years, and some,…
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Coinbase says ‘rogue’ support agents helped steal customer data
Coinbase says cyber criminals “bribed and recruited” support workers to help steal customer data and trick victims into sending money to attackers. As a result of the attack, bad actors obtained the names, addresses, phone numbers, government IDs images, account data, and partial social security numbers of a “small subset…
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Thanks, Trump tariffs, now I gotta replace my phone battery
After five years, I was still happy with my phone, even though its battery had started the inevitable process of slowing to a stop. But Donald Trump’s tariff nonsense pushed me to make a decision: buy a new phone or fix the old one now, before the prices go up.…
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Trump still wants Apple to build your iPhone in the US, not India, and this won’t end well
During this month’s earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook talked about how most of the iPhones sold in the US are being built in India, which, considering the lower US tariffs on that country, may have protected the popular handset from a price jump here in the US. It sounded,…
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Most job applicants use AI CV builder tools to get into work, and to my dismay, they say it is fair play
Many applicants admit they wouldn’t correct AI CV embellishments even if they knew they were false Recruiters now face polished, fabricated applications they can barely differentiate from genuine submissions Hiscox says AI-generated CVs often look flawless, but mask exaggerated skills and completely fabricated interests Artificial intelligence is now a common…
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