Anker Recalls More Power Banks for Fire, Explosion Risk

From CNET: Electronics company Anker expanded an official global recall of some of its Power Bank products, adding five more models to a recall of the Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks with the model number A1263 announced earlier in June. The recall was initiated following 19 reports of the...

Threads now has DMs

From The Verge: Threads has officially launched direct messaging for everyone. You can now privately message other users on the Meta-owned X rival, though Threads will only allow DMs between your followers or mutual followers on Instagram to start.

You can send a DM on Threads by selecting the...

Nothing launches its most expensive flagship yet, Phone (3)

From TechCrunch: Nothing on Tuesday launched its newest flagship phone after a two-year gap. At an event in London, the company unveiled the Phone (3), which starts at $799 and aims to take on bigwigs like Samsung and Apple with its differentiated design and features targeting tech enthusiasts....

You can use 1Password passkeys directly in Windows 11 soon

From PC World: According to a Windows Insider blog post, Microsoft is currently testing a deeper integration of 1Password’s passkey feature in Windows 11. Passkeys are more secure than passwords, allowing you to log in using a combination of something you have (like a smartphone) and something you...

US Senate crushes attempt to ban state AI regulations

From ComputerWorld: In a stunning 99–1 rebuke, the US Senate on Tuesday torched President Donald J. Trump’s push for a 10-year ban on state AI regulations, yanking the controversial provision from his so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.”

The lopsided vote delivered a sharp slap to Silicon Valley’s dream...

Apple is reportedly working on a bunch of new XR devices

From The Verge: Apple seems to have big plans to expand its lineup of extended-reality (XR) devices by launching new Vision series headsets and smart glasses, according to a report from supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In his report, Kuo shares Apple’s potential roadmap for seven new head-mounted...

Ubuntu and Tuxedo duke it out for Linux on Snapdragon X Elite laptops

From PC World: In summer of last year, we saw several laptops with new Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite processors from Qualcomm released.

Many users were impressed by them, as Snapdragon laptops aren’t just fast but also power-efficient, offering much longer battery life and requiring virtually no fan...

be quiet! Pure Rock Pro 3 Review (Page 1 of 4)

At some point during the past few years, I decided I was going to throw away my engineering degree to pursue a career in education instead. I knew one of my biggest weaknesses was going to be classroom management, since I never liked being the person who yells at a group to tell them to be quiet! I had a few chances to work with an after-school program recently, and that weakness of mine became very obvious. If the students were well-behaved, I...

Netac ZX20L 512GB Review (Page 1 of 7)

One thing I have always enjoyed doing is browsing Calgary inner city house listings. For what appears to be an old 1960s bungalow on the outside, many of them have nothing about it on the inside that is still mid-century. From the kitchen to the washrooms to the bedrooms, the house would have been completely stripped down to the studs and renovated from there. Now, why are there so many of these houses? Inner city neighborhoods are desirable...

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