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8 Best Portable Power Stations (2025): Power Capacity, Portability, Camping, and More

Whether you're going off-grid or safeguarding against blackouts, these beefy, WIRED-tested batteries can keep the lights on.

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How To Access Local MCP Servers Through a Secure Tunnel

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MCP servers are excellent candidates for exposing data from traditional databases as context to large language models (LLMs). Since these

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TSA Working on Haptic Tech To 'Feel' Your Body in Virtual Reality

TSA Working on Haptic Tech To 'Feel' Your Body in Virtual Reality

The tech would "detect the contour of a target (a person and/or an object) at a distance, optionally penetrating through clothing" and transmit it to a haptic feedback glove.

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Asus ROG Falchion Ace HFX Review: Hall Effect With New Tricks

Asus has a Hall effect keyboard now, complete with unique tricks that make it stand out from the crowded field.

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Now a personal comment. What pisses me off most about Bluesky is the environment all this is happening in. We need an open social web. They've got a lot of people convinced they are it. They are not and they know it. And they keep leading people on. They should either deliver, now, or get out of the way.

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Regular readers of my blog know that I've been calling out Bluesky and people associated with it for saying they're an open platform, and part of the web, when they are neither. Why don't people, esp journalists, call them out on this? We've been around this loop over and ove...

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Vibe Coding: Fad, Future or Folly? 

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The software development landscape is perpetually shifting, and early 2025 brought a new tremor: vibe coding. Coined by OpenAI researcher

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Best Bike Lights, Tested and Reviewed (2025)

Just like motorists, cyclists are also required to use lights after dark. See and be seen with our best bike light sets.

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These Oilers Can Take A Punch

These Oilers Can Take A Punch
It's not about throwing a punch. We know both these teams can land a haymaker. No team gets this far without that skill, even if each comes at it from a slightly different angle—the Oilers, more straightforward, windmilling their arms as they close the gap on you, daring you...

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OnePlus Pad 3 Review: Killer Tablet, High Price

This is an excellent Android tablet, but OnePlus may have overdone it.

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Democrats’ Top Strategies to Connect with Young White Male Voters

“After losing big with men under 30 in the 2024 election, Democrats have spent $20 million on a program called ‘Speaking with American Men’ (SAM) to help figure out which ‘spaces’ they need to show up in to fare better with this demographic.” — MSNBC - - - Sign all bills usi...

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Python in Unexpected Places

Everyone knows Python is everywhere in web development. Netflix, Instagram, and Dropbox all rely on it. But Python doesn’t just

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Why More Young People Are Becoming 'Relationship Anarchists'

A growing segment of millennials and Gen Z are forming “anti-hierarchal” relationships with multiple partners and friends, according to a new study by the dating app Feeld.

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8 Best Espresso Machines (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Turning your kitchen into a café is a great way to learn (or hone) the art of making the perfect shot.

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What Really Happened in the Aftermath of the Lizard Squad Hacks

On Christmas Day in 2014 hackers knocked out the Xbox and PlayStation gaming networks, impacting how video game companies handled cybersecurity for years.

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How to Prepare for a Climate Disaster in Trump’s America

Here’s how to find reliable information and keep safe during the summer heat and hurricane season following the unprecedented cuts at federal agencies.

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The Big Ugly Battle Over the Big Beautiful Bill

President Trump has called the sweeping domestic policy bill that recently passed in the House the most important piece of legislation in his second term — a single bill that would unlock his entire domestic agenda. But as that bill heads to the Senate, it’s raising question...

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Two upcoming talks on AI

I have two talks and a podcast to tell you about. Designing with AI 2025, Rosenfeld Media 10-11 June, online. Two days on the responsible and innovative uses of gen-AI, for … UX designers, researchers, writers, and other conscientious product people who are excited by the p...

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At Bitcoin 2025, Crypto Purists and the MAGA Faithful Collide

Trump’s inner circle has taken over one of the biggest crypto conferences in the world—drowning out protests from diehard bitcoiners who believe their “nerd money” shouldn’t be political.

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Trump Turns Sharply on Musk as Harsh New Data Wrecks Case for GOP Bill

President Donald Trump appears to have finally turned on Elon Musk over his scalding criticism of the “big, beautiful bill.” At a presser, House Speaker Mike Johnson revealed that Trump told him he’s displeased with Musk, which almost certainly wouldn’t have happen...