The Best Kindle Accessories (2026): Cases, Page Turners, Stickers
Looking to better protect your Kindle or add a little personality to your favorite e-reader? From cases and covers to page-turners and even charms, this is the guide for you.
Science/Tech
The Smart Bird Feeders Everyone’s Talking About (and Actually Buying) (2026)
These bird feeders come with cameras and connected apps to let you see and learn about the birds in your neighborhood.
The Best Permanent Outdoor Lights (2026): Govee, Eufy, Cync
Permanent eave lights that attach to the exterior of your home are becoming more popular. But are they worth the effort and cost?
Ikea’s New Blow-Up Chair Was Tested by Cats
Part of the new PS 2026 collection, it’s taken the Swedish company 26 years to finally nail inflatable furniture.
Della Optima TP Series Mini-Split AC Review: Cheap, Smart, and (Mostly) Reliable
Ductless AC systems get smart tech features—and the growing pains that come with them.
SpaceX bets the rocket farm on AI
Capital spending at SpaceX more than doubled last year, exceeding revenue and raising fears of further raises.
What Type of Mattress Is Right for You? (2026)
Here’s how to pick the best mattress for your sleep needs, straight from a professional mattress tester.
Withdraw AI policy, Malatsi told as fake citations row grows
Hallucinated citations have landed communications minister Solly Malatsi in a political storm, with his credibility on the line.
40 Years After the Chernobyl Disaster, More Countries Are Turning To Nuclear Power
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press:The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there’s a revival around the world, a trend that has been given a big boost by war in the Middle East. Over 400 nuclear reactors are operational in 31 countries, while about 70 more...
The remarkable turnaround at Intel
Soaring demand for AI inference workloads has seen Intel selling stockpiled CPUs once written off entirely.
UK departments at odds over energy demands of AI datacentres
Discrepancy in forecasts raises questions over government planning for net zero
One vision of the UK’s future involves a decarbonised economy powered by clean, renewable energy. Another involves making the UK an AI superpower.
The government departments responsible for these two visions do not appear to have agreed on their numbers.
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The tortoise and the hare: will China beat the US in the race back to the moon?
The rival superpowers are ramping up preparations for a crewed lunar landing nearly six decades after the first moon walk
The world watched earlier this month as Nasa sent four astronauts around the moon – but to actually land on the surface the US is once again in a space race, this time with China. And China may well win.
Both countries plan to build inhabited lunar bases – the first...
Scientists believe birds’ skulls hold clues to inner lives of long-extinct dinosaurs
Early birds were like ‘T rex reincarnated’, says scientist who believes avian skulls offer insight into dinosaurs’ behaviour
T rex is often depicted as more brawn than brains, but now scientists are hoping to probe just what was going on inside its head, drawing on findings from another kind of dinosaur: birds.
Scientists have previously found some species of bird not only make and use tools,...
Is AI Cannibalizing Human Intelligence? A Neuroscientist’s Way to Stop It
The AI industry is largely failing to ask a key design question, argues theoretical neuroscientist/cognitive scientist Vivienne Ming. Are their AI products building human capacity or consuming it? In the Wall Street Journal Ming shares her experiment about which group performed best at predicting real-world events (compared to forecasters on prediction market Polymarket) — AI, human, or...
California Engineer Identified in Suspected Shooting at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
The 31-year-old engineer and self-described indie game developer is suspected of firing shots at the annual event attended by President Donald Trump, high-profile media figures, and US government officials.
Trump Fires All 24 Members of America’s National Science Board
America’s National Science Board (NSB) “was established in 1950 to guide the governance of the National Science Foundation,” writes the Washington Post, “in an unusual structure within the federal government that echoes the setup of a company board in the private sector. It helps guide an agency that operates Antarctic research stations, telescopes, a fleet of research vessels and supports...
Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Isn’t Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds
After Australia banned social media for users younger than 16, teenagers “immediately worked to circumvent the restrictions,” reports Fortune:14-year-old in New South Wales, toldThe Washington Post in December 2025, justbefore the implementation of the ban, she planned to use her mother’sface ID to log in to Snapchatand .In a Reddit thread on ways to bypass the ban, one user suggestedusing a...
I brought my husband back for his funeral as a hologram
After nearly 60 years of marriage, Pam wanted to honour her husband Bill with a hologram at his funeral.
Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill
Colorado’s “age-attestation” bill left the House committee with new exemptions for open-source operating systems, applications, code repositories, and containerized software distribution, reports the blog Linuxiac:[The bill] focuses on operating system providers and application stores. Its main requirement is that these providers supply an age-related signal via an interface, so applications...
Is the World Ready For a Car Without a Rear Window?
There’s a glass roof — but no rear-view window. Instead the Polestar 4 replaces the rear-view mirror with a live feed from a wide-angle camera. Its high-resolution display (1480 x 320 pixels) promises “a panoramic view of the outside,” according to Polestar’s web site, showing more of what’s behind you. “Visibility in the dark and in rainy conditions is also vastly improved.” Besides the...
Open Source Developer Brings Linux to Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME
Microsoft released the “Windows Subsystem for Linux” in 2016, adding an optional Linux environment into every operating system since Windows 10. But now an open source developer has brought Linux to Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me, reports the blog It’s FOSS, “with Linux kernel 6.19 running alongside the Windows 9x kernel, letting both operate on the same machine at the same time.”A...