Technology

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 …

Mark Zuckerberg is onto burger and better things. The Meta CEO has revealed that he’s munching on a whopping 4,000 calories a day on a diet that consists of McDonald’s in a bid to “offset all the activity” he’s doing as part of his new fitness regime. Taking to Threads — Zuck’s newest platform launched to rival X (formerly known …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …