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In the 1960s B-grade sci-fi movie The Man with the X-Ray Eye, the protagonist develops eye drops to see beyond the visible spectrum. Spoiler: The experiment didn’t go very well then. But new glasses developed by MIT in America offer…

Travelers have been told to be careful when plugging their smartphones and laptops into USB chargers. Last Thursday, the official Twitter account of the FBI in Denver posted a warning: “Avoid using free charging stations in airports, hotels and shopping…

Back at NAMM 2019, Nashville’s Ciari Guitars unveiled an interesting travel guitar called the Ascender. This guitar featured a beautifully designed folding mechanism that allowed the player to carry the instrument in a backpack-sized case. Now the company is back…

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday release this month included a security update for a zero-day Windows vulnerability in the wild. The bug in question, CVE-2023-28252, has been described as a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver.…

New and hotly debated genetic evidence from a curious doglike animal is adding some crucial pieces in the puzzle of how and where the virus that causes COVID first infected humans. The pieces don’t solve the puzzle—and haven’t entirely quelled…

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is seeking a Senior Patent Attorney for a full-time position in Richland, Washington. Senior patent agents are experts in the field of protecting intellectual property. They are registered with the US Patent and Trademark Office…

There are some cards missing here, but after a fresh retest with two 30-series cards, I decided to take the RTX 3080 FE out of the production machine and stop it before benchmarking on this new platform. did (anyway). why?…

Attackers using hacking tools from an Israeli surveillance ware vendor named QuaDream targeted at least five members of civil society in North America, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe and the Middle East. A group of Citizen Lab researchers found that…

Technically, any keyboard you use for gaming is a gaming keyboard. But a keyboard built for gaming often has features mainstream boards can’t match, like ultra-fast polling rates, per-game macro profiles, dedicated media controls, and robust RGB lighting customization (and…

British company Heatherwick Studio has unveiled plans to build an unusual new tower in the Netherlands. Designed in collaboration with Barcode Architects, the building is defined by a striking façade of stacked cylindrical cog-like shapes. Dubbed Oopen, the project will…