In the past few years, sport climbing has become one of the fastest-growing sports in the world. This explosion in popularity could be because of superstars like Alex Honnold, who in addition to starring in the documentary Free Solo now has several climbing shows with National Geographic. It could also …
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The Android world has enjoyed folding smartphones for six years, but Apple stans may soon be able to take part—a folding iPhone might arrive in 2026, according to a report from The Information. The project, codenamed V68, is in early development and there's no guarantee it will come to fruition, …
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On August 27, 1960, at the Olympics in Rome, one of the most controversial gold medals was awarded. At the 100-meter freestyle men’s swimming event, Australian swimmer John Devitt and American Lance Larson both recorded the same finish time of 55.2 seconds. Only Devitt walked away with the gold medal. …
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Dyson has announced its second pair of over-the-ear headphones—and its first that doesn’t look like a high-tech gimp mask. Dyson calls the new cans OnTrac. which is not to be confused with the shipping company of the same name and spelling. Unlike the Dyson Zone headphones before them, the OnTrac …
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The US Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to lower price caps on prison phone calls and closed a loophole that allowed prison telecoms to charge high rates for intrastate calls. The vote will cut the price of interstate calls in half and set price caps on intrastate calls for …
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Early Friday morning, a flawed software update from the security firm CrowdStrike took down Windows computers across the world. For the aviation industry, the outage created the kind of chaos usually reserved for sudden, catastrophic weather—except all over the world, all at the same time. The outage highlighted an assumed …
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This isn’t your typical Nascar racing machine. For 75 years, American stock-car competitions unfolded to the star-spangled tune of roaring, gas-guzzling V8 engines. When this prototype took to the course at Nascar’s Chicago Street Race for demonstration laps, it left the starting line in a cloud of tire smoke, scrambling …
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Surprise, surprise. Tesla is in the news again. Yes, partly because Tesla has delayed its promised robotaxi program. And yes, the company’s stock price has continued to plummet as its share of the US EV market drops below 50 percent. And yeah, the Cybertruck looks very silly. But forget all …
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Amazon is bricking all Astro for Business robots on September 25. It first released the robot about eight months ago as a security device for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) for $2,350, but the device will soon be a pricey new addition to Amazon's failed products list. Amazon announced Astro …
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It's a big day for Samsung. At its biannual Galaxy Unpacked event—held today in Paris just weeks before the Olympics kickoff—Samsung took the wraps off of eight new devices, one of which is an entirely new product category for the company: a health-tracking smart ring. The Galaxy Ring arrives at …
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