It’s summer! Protect your tech from the heat

It’s summer! Protect your tech from the heat

Tech is expensive, and there are endless ways to ruin yours. While we’re talking money, I put together a list of tech freebies you can grab right now.  Now, some bad news: Your smartphone hates the heat. Smartphones work best between 35 and 95 degrees. Colder or hotter, you risk hardware damage and shorter battery life.  So, what can you …

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LK-99 superconductor breakthrough could mark ‘new era’

LK-99 superconductor breakthrough could mark 'new era'

Imagine riding a levitating train at speeds of 14,000 miles per hour — cutting the trip from New York to Los Angeles to just 20 minutes. A team of South Korean researchers say the science fiction fantasy is closer to reality than ever before with what they claim is a revolutionary breakthrough in superconductors. The researchers published their findings July …

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NASA loses contact with probe in deep space for 47 years

NASA loses contact with probe in deep space for 47 years

Somebody really spaced out on this one. NASA has lost contact with its deep space, Voyager 2 probe after giving the spacecraft an incorrect command two weeks ago. On Tuesday, it was announced that NASA had only first heard back from the vessel when a “heartbeat signal” was picked up by deep space network antennas massively positioned throughout Earth. Learning …

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Adobe employees fear its AI products could prompt clients to lay off workers

Adobe employees fear its AI products could prompt clients to lay off workers

Adobe employees raised red flags about their company’s new generative AI features, fearing the enhanced design tools could spur clients to fire workers, according to a report. The Silicon Valley-based multinational best known for its Photoshop and Acrobat software recently rolled out Firefly, a generative AI tool that allows users to extend images and add or remove objects using text …

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Fox anchor Bob Kelly sucker punched at Jersey Shore bar

Fox anchor Bob Kelly sucker punched at Jersey Shore bar

A Philadelphia TV news anchor known as the “Dean of Traffic” sported a visibly swollen eye while on the air Tuesday — the result of being sucker punched in an attack he blamed on a TikTok challenge. Bob Kelly, a longtime meteorologist for Fox 29 in the City of Brotherly Love, was slammed in the face by a brute while …

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Apple-1 computer signed by Steve Wozniak up for auction

Apple-1 computer signed by Steve Wozniak up for auction

A vintage Apple computer signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak is being sold at auction. The Apple-1 set in motion the company that in June became the first publicly traded business to close a trading day with a $3 trillion market value, according to RR Auction in Boston. The computer has been restored to a fully operational state and comes with …

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Feds open probe into 280K new Tesla cars over steering issue

Feds open probe into 280K new Tesla cars over steering issue

US auto safety regulators said Tuesday they have opened an investigation into 280,000 new Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles over reports of loss of steering control and power steering. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a preliminary evaluation after it received 12 complaints from owners of 2023 Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles. One Model 3 driver reported in May …

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Instagram boss moves back to US days after Threads loses half its users

Instagram boss moves back to US days after Threads loses half its users

The head of Instagram has ditched working from London after a highly-publicized move across the Pond last year to return to the US — as Threads struggles to retain users. Adam Mosseri, who oversees the Instagram-linked “Twitter killer” app, said the recent launch of Threads made working from a distant time zone too challenging. “A year is not enough time …

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Elon Musk’s X sign removed from San Francisco HQ after complaints

Elon Musk's X sign removed from San Francisco HQ after complaints

It is gone. A giant, glowing X no longer marks the spot on the San Francisco high-rise that is headquarters to Elon Musk’s messaging company X, formerly known as Twitter. The city building department logged 24 complaints after a weekend of the big X, which on Friday was erected on the roof of the company’s downtown San Francisco headquarters, on Market …

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