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Gearing up to shred the slopes or dive into the seas? These photography tools are made for danger.

Understanding the language of the internet can help you protect your personal information from bad actors. Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson explains.

Dude, where’s my webcam? Lenovo’s new trick hides it behind the LCD—but kills its quality along the way.

Aside from unfavorable comparisons to rival advanced driver systems, calling it God’s Eye could be as misleading a moniker as Tesla’s Full Self-Driving.

Vizio’s compact and stripped-down Elevate soundbar keeps the dream of affordable Dolby Atmos alive.

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

Answers to each clue for the February 23, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

Woven City is Toyota's experimental city that is a fully functional environment for people to live, work and play while doing research.

Intuitive Machines landed a spacecraft on the moon in 2024, but it arrived tilted. The company says that won't likely happen again.

The small Colorado company Entabeni Systems is quietly working to upend the ski industry with a business model built on handshake deals made in ski resort parking lots.

Black Girls Code CEO Cristina Mancini discusses how she hopes to increase tech opportunities for Black women and girls.

Get a refurbished MacBook Pro with an adaptive Touchbar on sale for $424.97 (reg. $1,499).

Get lifetime access to Microsoft Office 2021 and Windows 11 Pro for just $54.97 (reg. $438) in this bundle deal.

Get the KeySmart® SmartCard for $29.97 (reg. $39) — a slim, rechargeable, and waterproof credit card-shaped tracker that works with Apple’s Find My app.

Skip the VPN subscription fees — this router secures your connection, unblocks content, and blocks ads for a one-time payment. Get it for $150 while supplies last.

Say goodbye to subscription fees with Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows. Access premium apps for life with a one-time payment of $59.97.

For a limited time, Mashable readers pay only £102.89 for a lifetime license to Microsoft Office 2024 Home for Mac or PC.

Live stream Italy vs. France in the 2025 Six Nations for free from anywhere in the world.

Live stream Pakistan vs. India in the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy for free from anywhere in the world.

Across the US government, workers failed to get clear guidance on whether or how to respond to an email asking what they did this week, despite Elon Musk’s claim that their jobs are at risk.

Connections: Sports Edition is a New York Times word game about finding common sports threads between words. How to solve the puzzle.

The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.

Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle.

Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1345 on February 23, as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

Employees throughout the federal government have until 11:59pm ET Monday to detail five things they accomplished in the last week.

Debates over AI benchmarks — and how they’re reported by AI labs — are spilling out into public view. This week, an OpenAI employee accused Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, of publishing misleading benchmark results for its latest AI model, Grok 3. One of the co-founders of xAI, Igor Babushkin, insisted that the company was […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Access all the AI tools you need — writing, image editing, PDFs, and media — for life with a 1minAI subscription for just A$156 (reg. A$847).

The beauty of podcasting is that anyone can do it. It’s a rare medium that’s nearly as easy to make as it is to consume. And as such, no two people do it exactly the same way. There are a wealth of hardware and software solutions open to potential podcasters, so setups run the gamut […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

We’ve all been there. A favorite item is suddenly unavailable for purchase. Couldn’t the manufacturer have given you advance warning? Whether owing to low sales, changing habits, production costs, or even because something is a little wrong with your favorite product (shh), discontinued items are part of life. In a weekend piece, the New York […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at the internal chaos surrounding HP’s $116 million acquisition of AI Pin maker Humane; Mira Murati’s new AI venture coming out of stealth; Duolingo killing its iconic owl mascot with a Cybertruck; and more! Let’s get into it. Humane’s AI pin is dead. The hardware […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The General Services Administration, the agency that manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down its entire network of electric vehicle chargers, according to a report in The Verge. The GSA reportedly operates a network of hundreds of EV chargers with a total of 8,000 plugs that can be used to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Dipping your toes into virtual reality? From shooters to woodsy adventures, these are our favorites to play by yourself or with friends.