The Sourdough Sidekick Handles the Tedious Part of Bread Baking
Sourdough is old-fashioned. Wild yeast. Natural fermentation. The opposite of commercial bread. So it sounds weird to bring a gadget…
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Google’s Founding Fathers AI Commercial Is As Bad As You Think
“Group project, but make it 1776.” That’s how Google’s new Workspace commercial opens. It goes downhill from there. The ad…
DARPA Plans 30-Year Nuclear Waste Batteries for Military Drones
DARPA wants to build batteries that last 30 years. Using nuclear waste. To power drones. Project SYMPHONEE aims to harvest…
Scratch Your Shopping Itch for Free With the Steam Summer Sale Simulator
Steam Summer Sale got you spending money you don’t have? There’s a game for that. The Steam Summer Sale Simulator…
Oura Ring 5 Review: Smaller, Thinner, and a Full Day More Battery
I wore the Oura Ring 5 for a month. The headline: it’s 40% smaller than the Ring 4. And that…
The Missing 500 Million Years: Asteroid Impacts Melted Earth’s First Crust
Earth is the only planet we know of with silica-rich continents floating on its surface. But geologists still can’t agree…
Chemical Accidents Are Rising as the EPA Proposes Weaker Safety Rules
In 2018, physicist Ronald Koopman showed up at a Southern California Air District meeting to talk hydrofluoric acid. It sounds…
HP OmniBook Ultra 14 Review: Premium Ultrabook That Nearly Hits 24-Hour Battery
The HP OmniBook Ultra 14 looks like a MacBook Air from across the room. But don’t let that fool you…
I Tested the LG C6 OLED for a Week — It Nearly Converted Me From Mini LED
I’ve been a Mini LED guy for a while. Brighter, cheaper, good enough. Then I spent a week with the…
Eufy Omni S2 Review: The Robot Vacuum That Made Me Ditch My Old One
The Eufy Omni S2 doesn’t look like any other robot vacuum. It’s taller. Bulkier. But it cleans like nothing else…