Author: Zach_Wilson
Flipper Zero 1.0 firmware update supercharges the hacking handheld
One of our favorite hacking gadgets, the Flipper Zero, received its first major firmware update today. It includes a bunch of features the developers have been working on stabilizing for the last three years, including a big battery life boost that technically arrived with a previous update. While many of…
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DirecTV rejects Disney’s offer to bring one channel back for tonight only
Disney was ready to turn part of its feed back on for DirecTV customers tonight — but DirecTV wasn’t interested. Disney-owned ABC News is hosting tonight’s presidential debate, and Disney offered to make the channel available to DirecTV subscribers for three hours at no charge, Disney spokespeople April Carretta and Bridget…
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Google announces a market-shifting deal to capture CO2
Google just landed a deal to capture planet-heating pollution at a huge bargain: $100 per ton of CO2, the price climate tech startups around the world are racing to achieve in order to make their technologies commercially viable. The company announced the agreement today with Holocene, a startup with an…
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Sony’s new PS5 heralds the end of disc drives
Today may have marked the beginning of the end for game console disc drives. Sony finally announced the $699.99 PS5 Pro, and while it looks to be an impressive machine, it’s the first PlayStation console that will require you to buy the console and a separate disc drive if you…
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Lifx’s new tube bulb turns your boring light fixtures into RGB glow sticks
Lifx has a new smart “Polychrome” Tube light that can glow with multiple colors and transform your home lamps and fixtures into fun light-up popsicles. The bulbs are made of a frosted glass tube and contain 104 LEDs with 52 controllable zones that enable color-shifting effects and include themes like…
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The new Galaxy Buds 3 are already on sale as part of Samsung’s fall sales event
Like the Galaxy Buds 2 before them, Samsung’s latest earbuds will likely become a default pick for Android phone owners with time. Regardless of whether Samsung will admit it, the Buds 3 take heavy design cues from Apple’s now-ubiquitous AirPods, resulting in an angular stemmed look instead of the more…
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