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Apple HomePod (2023) review • TechCrunch

Welcome to the dark night of the smart speaker. A few years back, the category felt inevitable — and, frankly, why not? We’ve smartened our phones and watches. Why shouldn’t our homes be the next step? For decades, many looked…

Apple HomePod (second-gen) review: playing it safe

Apple’s “all-new” HomePod speaker is more of a do-over than a successor. Unlike when it introduces a new iPhone or Mac, there are zero references to the original HomePod in any of Apple’s marketing materials. That might seem a bit…

Why Bother Bringing Back the Dodo?

This makes a lot of sense. Breakthroughs in all sorts of fields are needed to save entire species from extinction: gene editing and sequencing, artificial wombs, and more. Lamm hopes that any technology Colossal develops will have potential applications (and…

QNAP: Patch Critical Remote Code Injection Bug

A major Taiwanese hardware manufacturer is urging customers to patch critical vulnerabilities in devices running QTS or QuTS Hero firmware. Network Attached Storage (NAS) device maker QNAP said in an advisory yesterday that CVE-2022-27596 affects QTS 5.0.1 and QuTS hero…