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Apple announced a handful of new products in a pre-recorded online event. And the company announced a brand new desktop computer called the Mac Studio. It’s a small tower computer…

Apple is set to announce new hardware today. The company is holding a (virtual) event at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. in New York, 6 p.m. in London, 7 p.m.…

Vulnerabilities in animal tracking software USAHERDS and Log4j gave the notorious APT41 group a foothold in multiple government systems. Source: Wired Security

General Motors and Pacific Gas and Electric Company are launching a pilot that will let EV owners use their vehicles as a backup power source for their homes during an…

War in Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia have made cryptocurrency a hot potato for international politics. Source: Wired Security

The so-called Access:7 vulnerabilities are the latest high-profile IoT security fumble. Source: Wired Security

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Samsung Electronics has suspended shipments of all products to Russia “due to the current geopolitical developments,” the company said on Saturday. “We continue to actively monitor this complex situation to…

Hello readers, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, I talked about the environmental impacts of crypto with Kimbal Musk, early Tesla investor and brother of Elon. This…

A shrewd entrepreneur joins the 100+ accelerator program sponsored by brewing giant AB Inbev and home consumables emporium Unilever, and spots a pattern. The breweries have tons of spent grain,…

Mariella Moon Contributor Mariella Moon is an associate editor at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Tesla raises prices across its entire EV lineup Elon Musk challenges UAW to hold…

UK-based TrueCircle, a computer vision startup founded just last year, has nabbed $5.5 million in pre-seed funding in a bid to bring data-driven AI to the recycling industry to improve…

Invites just went out for Apple’s next big event, scheduled for 10 AM PT (1 PM ET) on March 8. It will be an online event broadcasting from Apple Park.…

Seven years after co-founding OnePlus, Carl Pei left the smartphone maker in 2020 to launch his own venture. The company that became Nothing has, to date, launched a single product:…

Agtech startup Source.ag today announced it harvested a $10 million investment to make greenhouses smarter. The founders have set their eyes on a horizon where, driven by climate change and…

The same story has played out for decades. A startup blossoms and thrives under the leadership of a larger-than-life personality. A plateau soon follows. The company’s focus moves from introducing…

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In the past year, there’s been a lot of hype around biomanufacturing — from growing cell-based meat to microbe-powered medicine manufacturing. But none of synthetic biology’s darlings can exist without…

Kris Holt Contributor Share on Twitter Kris Holt is a contributing writer at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Intel plans to build a $19 billion chip plant in Germany…

Netflix helped change the game for microservices when it developed and the outsourced a tool called Conductor, initially built to handle its own extensive, multi-channel on-demand video traffic (and correspondingly…

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Day One Ventures — which, among other things, invested in Superhuman, Truebill, DuckDuckGo and others — is bringing on ClassPass co-founder Sanjiv Sanghavi as a partner focusing exclusively on climate…

Reforestation is one of our best tools to fight the climate crisis. In the tropics, forests have been reported to absorb 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year.…

The Ethereum blockchain isn’t exactly the first thing that springs to mind when you’re thinking of solutions to climate problems, but that’s what Nori has built as an engine to…

The market for mechanical keyboards has boomed in recent years and the pandemic only added fuel to it as people looked to improve their home setups (and spend their stimulus…

Tesla has agreed to pay a $275,000 fine in a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for violating the federal Clean Air Act at its electric vehicle manufacturing plant…

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Volta Trucks — the Swedish electric vehicle startup that believes it can build better urban delivery vehicles and other trucks that are safer and take up a smaller carbon footprint…

How a chaotic skunkworks race in the desert launched what’s poised to be a runaway global industry. Source: Wired Guides

What you need to know about the promise (and peril) of networked lightbulbs, ovens, cameras, speakers and, well … everything. Source: Wired Guides

Here’s everything you’ll ever want to know about the spectrum, millimeter-wave technology, and why 5G could give China an edge in the AI race. Source: Wired Guides

Everything you need to know about how scientists can repurpose a bacterial immune system to alter DNA, making everything from cheap insulin to extra starchy corn. Source: Wired Guides

ISPs shouldn’t be able to block some sorts of data and prioritize others—here’s what to know about the struggle to treat information on the internet the same. Source: Wired Guides

Everything you wanted to know about soft, hard, and nonmurderous automatons. Source: Wired Guides

The world is getting warmer, the weather is getting worse. Here’s everything you need to know about what humans can do to stop wrecking the planet. Source: Wired Guides

Everything you ever wanted to know about VR headsets, Oculus, Vive, and simulator sickness. Source: Wired Guides

In an age of nonstop breaches and hacks, here are ways to improve your online security based on your level of risk, from average user to NSA contractor. Source: Wired…

Everything you need to know about engagement, power likes, sponcon, and trust. Source: Wired Guides

Everything you need to know about DNA, medical breakthroughs, and genetic privacy. Source: Wired Guides

The threat of cyberwar looms over the future: a new dimension of conflict capable of leapfrogging borders and teleporting the chaos of war to civilians thousands of miles beyond its…

It’s super secure and slightly hard to understand, but the idea of creating tamper-proof databases has captured the attention of everyone from anarchist techies to staid bankers. Source: Wired Guides

Everything you need to know about SETI, the Drake equation, ’Oumuamua, and hot tubs. Source: Wired Guides

Everything you need to know about THC, CBD, terpenes, and the entourage effect. Source: Wired Guides

Information about you, what you buy, where you go, even where you look is the oil that fuels the digital economy. Source: Wired Guides

Everything you need to know about Blue Origin, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and what actually happens to your body if you go live in space. Source: Wired Guides

Everything you ever wanted to know about Equifax, Mariott, and the problem with social security numbers. Source: Wired Guides

Its influence goes far beyond other phones—the infrastructure that made the iPhone also enabled drones, smart-home gadgets, wearables, and self-driving cars. Source: Wired Guides

Everything you have ever wanted to know about Amazon, data privacy, and register-free stores. Source: Wired Guides