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Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. No one wants to be a sucker. But do most of us go too far in our efforts to avoid naivety? In other words, are we all a little…

It’s early 2025, the weather’s still cold, so it must be time for Samsung to kick off the year’s flagship smartphone race with its latest barrage of devices. This time, we’ve got three S25 phones, ranging from the $800 S25…

Looking Glass, which makes special screens that display 3D holograms you can see without wearing a headset or glasses, just added iOS support to its tech. That means you can view Cinematic Mode videos, custom apps, and 3D content from…

Tecno has teased a next-gen Pova smartphone, which it says sets the stage for a “new era of smartphone innovation.” Tecno hasn’t revealed the name of this upcoming Pova-series smartphone, but it said the handset’s rear will feature a triangle-shaped…

Social engineering has long been an effective tactic because of how it focuses on human vulnerabilities. There’s no brute-force ‘spray and pray’ password guessing. No scouring systems for unpatched software. Instead, it simply relies on manipulating emotions such as trust,…

Cushion, a fintech startup that described itself as the “Plaid for buy now, pay later (BNPL),” has shut down. On Thursday, founder and CEO Paul Kesserwani posted on LinkedIn about the decision to wind down the company at the end…

Community Health Center (CHC), a Connecticut-based nonprofit healthcare provider, has confirmed that hackers accessed the sensitive data of more than a million patients. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Thursday, CHC said it detected suspicious activity on its…

To be honest, I rarely recommend Bang & Olufsen headphones these days, namely because they’re way too expensive for most folks without a great deal attached. Fortunately, thanks to the current sitewide sale over at Amazon, a great deal is…

R1, the latest large language model (LLM) from Chinese startup DeepSeek, is under fire for multiple security weaknesses. The company’s spotlight on the performance of its reasoning LLM has also brought scrutiny. A handful of security research reports released in…

In the wake of parting ways with gaming personality Dr. Disrespect, Midnight Society has closed its doors and killed the first-person shooter game Dead Drop. The studio’s fortunes took a turn for the worse when cofounder and popular streamer Dr.…