Bryan Bedder/Getty Images Fairphone, a Netherlands-based smartphone brand, is known for selling easily repairable Android phones. Its latest phone – the Fairphone (Gen. 6) – features 12 user-replaceable parts, such as the battery, screen, speaker and cameras, and even supports replaceable bottom back plate accessories. While Fairphone…
The FDA has approved the first automated device of its kind for ambulatory patients. Images Tada/Shutterstock The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new product aimed at automating outpatient blood draws. Aletta is an autonomous robotic device capable of drawing blood from a patient’s arm. It uses near-infrared light…
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The field of biometrics is both a fascinating and innovative addition to the world of consumer technology. Home security devices are becoming increasingly popular with homeowners and apartment dwellers, and biometrics play an important role in many of the…
Hell yeah. At a time when the video game industry could use some good news, former Arkane Austin executive Harvey Smith and longtime collaborator Ben Horne formed Black Pony Immersive, a studio focused on creating narrative-rich first-person action RPGs. In other words: immersive simulations. This is the genre Smith is known for, as the designer…
Apple plans to open a new 10,000-square-foot store at the Village at Meridian, an outdoor shopping complex near Boise, Idaho, according to building permits reviewed by BoiseDev. Apple aims to open the store in time for the iPhone 18 Pro launch in September, an insider claimed. The company’s only other store in Idaho is located…
The $330 set includes a controller that interacts with three dioramas inspired by the game. Mattel We’ve seen a number of classic games consoles get the Lego treatment over the years, including the NES and the Atari 2600. You’ll soon be able to build a version of the original Xbox too, perhaps even…
Of course, this is probably an attempt to maximize those Gemini usage numbers, but it also comes with 5TB of cloud storage. Google is offering a new promotion that gives students a full year of AI Pro subscription for free. It typically costs $200 per year, or $20 per month, and the offer is available…
Google said today that eligible students in the United States can get a free year of Google AI Pro. Google AI Pro is normally priced at $19.99 per month and includes 4x usage limits in Gemini, access to Gemini Spark, Gemini in Google apps like Gmail and Google Docs, and 5TB of storage space. Eligible…
Drivers may be more distracted on days when a big new album comes out. Taner Muhlis Karaguzel/Shutterstock In the United States, the number of traffic deaths increased by 15 percent immediately after the release of a major musical album, according to a new study published by researchers at Harvard Medical School….
NASA’s Europa Clipper, a spacecraft en route to conduct the first detailed study of Jupiter’s moon Europa, detected something strange on December 19, 2024. It had been about two months since the orbiter launched from the Kennedy Space Center, and the mission team was conducting a routine check of its Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Survey…