Logitech G309 Lightspeed review The Logitech G309 Lightspeed is a mid-range wireless gaming mouse, aimed towards the more casual gamer who doesn’t need the elite features or performance of more premium offerings. In terms of appearance, the G309 Lightspeed keeps things simple. There’s no gaming imagery or designs present (there’s not even any RGB lighting), […]
Mysterious Radio Bursts Traced to the Edge of an Ancient, Dying Galaxy
In February 2024, scientists on Earth detected a powerful radio blast from outer space. Seeking to discover where it had come from, they traced the brief flash of energy back to its extraterrestrial source—and discovered something unexpected. Scientists led by Northwestern University and McGill University have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the edges […]
The importance of understanding your minimum viable operations
Amid the Cold War, the possibility of a nuclear attack was deeply feared, yet at the same time, weirdly unimaginable. The stark terror of nuclear disaster persisted for years, highlighted in the 1984 BBC drama film “Threads”. The film explored the hypothetical event of a nuclear bomb being dropped on a British city, and the […]
Blackrock CEO Calls Crypto a ‘Currency of Fear’ (Complimentary)
Blackrock CEO Larry Fink thinks bitcoin, which is currently priced at around $104,200, could go as high as $700,000. But that’s only if people get really nervous about the stability of their own currencies around the world. And while it’s anyone’s guess whether Fink’s logic is sound and people would indeed flock to crypto in […]
The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You’re Nervous About the Movie
This week, Star Trek returns to the world of movies with a very different spin: not just in format, in the first streaming-exclusive movie the franchise has ever seen, but in perspective, as Section 31 shines the spotlight on one of the darkest ideas to ever emerge from Trek‘s utopian vision. From the moment it was introduced in Deep […]
Samsung Galaxy S25 phones get Content Credentials support and I couldn’t be happier for creators
Samsung has adopted the Content Credentials standard for AI-edited imagery The Samsung Galaxy S25 range will be the first phones in the world operating the standard The standard adds a tag and metadata to AI-edited images created on a Galaxy S25 device Most of the attention at Samsung Galaxy Unpacked was obviously being devoted to […]
Section 31 Is a Mediocre Action Movie, and an Even Worse Star Trek One
There have now been 14 Star Trek movies over the last 50 years and yet the franchise has always had a bit of a reputation of cinematic struggle on the big screen. From the filmic continuations of the original show all the way to the Kelvin Timeline reboots, Star Trek has always been dogged with […]
We’re Doing AI Phrenology Again
Every few months, another highly educated academic asks: What if I tried doing debunked 18th-century race science, but with AI? The latest entry into the AI phrenology portfolio comes from a group of economics professors who say they’ve developed a method for algorithmically analyzing a single photo of a person’s face in order to calculate […]
Samsung’s clever new ‘Circle to Search’ trick could help you figure out that song that is stuck in your head
A new ‘Circle to Search’ trick is available on Samsung’s latest Galaxy phones It lets you sing or hum songs that you want to identify The feature worked well in our early hands-on demos Sure, Shazam and the Google Assistant, or even Gemini, can help you identify a song that’s playing in a coffee shop […]
There’s Something Fishy About This Fish Tech Startup
An Indonesian agriculture tech startup that raised hundreds of millions of dollars appears to be a giant fraud. The company, called eFishery, reportedly told investors including SoftBank that it had revenue of $752 million for the nine months through September of last year when the real amount was actually $157 million. That means its revenue […]