Lower Decks Tackles a Fundamental Truth of Star Trek

It’s a fundamental truth that is deeply human (and Vulcan, and Andorian, and Klingon, and Betazoid, and Trill, and so on): Pobody’s nerfect?

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Thursday's Best Deals: Apple's New iPad, Wayfair's Way Day, Nintendo eShop Gift Cards, Ankbit Wireless Earbuds, Sceptre 65" 4K TV and More

Apple’s latest iPad, Wayfair Way Day and Nintendo eShop gift cards lead Thursday’s best deals.

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In 2020, Not Even Your Seltzer Is Safe

If you, like me, woke up one day in your 30s and decided that seltzer was suddenly your thing, I have some bad news. It’s time to sit down, friend, and mourn yet another thing that this garbage year 2020 has taken from us. As it turns out, a Consumer Reports investigation has found that toxic “forever chemicals” are…

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Scientists Have Figured Out How to Capture Energy From a Gentle Breeze

The crackling sound you hear as you separate two socks fresh out of the dryer are the result of the triboelectric effect generating static electricity. It can occasionally lead to an unpleasant shock, but researchers from the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems are leveraging the effect to create a…

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Adobe Update Actually Makes PDFs Readable on Your Phone

Adobe has been hyping its Sensei AI for a while now, and it finally has a use case for the tech that might make the average user’s life a little easier. The Adobe Reader app now uses machine learning to reformat PDFs in a way that makes them actually readable on mobile devices.

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Wikipedia's Getting an Overdue Makeover

Wikipedia, a platform beloved by nerds the world over for its seemingly endless buffet of scholarly rabbit holes, is finally getting a facelift. It’ll be the first time the site’s altered anything about its image in a decade.

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Xbox game download feature allows pre-load before ownership

Early downloading of games to Xbox consoles via the Android version of the Xbox app was revealed this week. This system allows users to download any Xbox game to any (compatible) Xbox system regardless of purchase status. So the purchase of the game – digital or physical – only acts as a key to unlock the content you’ve already loaded … Continue reading

Xbox Series X Storage Expansion Card preorders open – yes, it’s expensive

Just how much it will cost to expand your Xbox Series X or Series S’ storage with an official Storage Expansion Card has been confirmed, and you should probably start saving now. While the two new next-generation consoles come with either 1TB or 512GB of internal SSD storage as standard, for maximum performance that can be boosted with a Seagate … Continue reading

TicWatch Pro 3 released with Wear OS and tracking aplenty

Today the folks at Mobvoi revealed the first Wear OS watch to utilize the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100 processor platform. The device is called TicWatch Pro 3, and it rolls with a surprisingly robust set of features for its price. This smartwatch works with fitness tracking, health monitoring, “duel-display 2.0” tech, NFC with Google Pay, and a quoted “up to … Continue reading

2021 Acura TLX First Drive – Focus Matters

Throwing development cash at a shrinking segment, with the hope of persuading badge-obsessed drivers to rethink their brand loyalties, sounds like a fool’s errand, but Acura has plotted a surprisingly sensible course with the new 2021 TLX. True, sedans may now comprise less than 38-percent of new premium vehicle sales in the US, but that’s still a sizable group of … Continue reading