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Look at your modern-day TV, and you witness nothing less than a technological miracle. Scientists began experimenting with the concept of television more than a century ago. But it wouldn’t be until the 1939 World’s Fair that the Radio Corporation of America introduced it to the general audience. Before TV …

The U.S. government has already come to rely heavily on SpaceX’s launch services, but the company is now diving headfirst into a pool it had previously only dabbled in. A brand-new division of SpaceX called Starshield will offer customized satellite designs and secure communications to “government entities” (think three-letter agencies). …

Some firms used alternate strategies to make sure they received exactly what they wanted from employees as the pandemic kept everyone indoors and a record number of individuals started working from home. On workplace computers, some employees installed “spyware,” which tracked users and revealed what they were doing online. Some …

Elon Musk, the brand-new owner of Twitter, has submitted a significant user safety decision to a Twitter vote for the second time in this month. The question “should Twitter grant a universal amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not breached the law or participated in severe spam?” was …

Users will soon be able to schedule posts on LinkedIn to publish at a later time. According to at least one online report from web developer and app researcher Nima Owji back in August, the Microsoft-owned social network has apparently been testing the new feature internally for a number of …

Independent legal analysis of the Online Safety Bill, a contentious UK government proposal to regulate online speech under a safety-focused framework, says the draft bill contains some of the broadest mass surveillance powers ever proposed in a Western democracy and also warns that they pose a risk to the integrity …

Expanded USB and peripheral compatibility are described in a new development report by Asahi, a project to bring Linux to the Apple Silicon Mac. The most recent version of Asahi Linux, a project to adapt Linux to Apple Silicon Macs, includes additional hardware compatibility, new features, patches for “longstanding pain …

The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT is working on a challenging effort to create self-assembling robots. Although the team acknowledges that the creation of an autonomous self-building robot is still “years away,” their effort has so far produced promising outcomes. Voxels, a term taken from computer graphics, are …

According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple’s upcoming iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max will have a USB-C connector that supports at least USB 3.2 or Thunderbolt 3, which would give the devices a significant speed boost over current models. While Lightning supports USB 2.0 rates of up to …

We are in the midst of a thinking gap on a global scale. Shivvy Jervis, who worked with Lenovo on its first-ever Think Report, released in conjunction with ThinkPad’s 30th anniversary, came to that conclusion. The comprehensive international research study surveyed adults in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, …