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On the outside, vending machines may be covered with bright colors, cute graphics, and flashing lights, but on the inside, you’ll find industrial computers, robotics, sensors, databases, and network-connected software. This makes them fun reverse engineering targets for hardware hackers, especially when manufacturers tightly control how owners are allowed
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The Solar Eclipse did not bless my region with the full Monty, with the moon only managing to take a small bite of the sun. That, though, was enough for me. As soon as I donned my protective glasses and saw the celestial show, I had to document it in
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Newly leaked photographs of the unannounced Xbox Elite Series 3 controller have appeared after a previous major leak in May. While the original Reddit post to the r/Controller subreddit made by user u/ssuberlex has been deleted along with the account, the apparent leak was presented as a seemingly-ignorant
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Fellow Android phone owners, our time has come! Google made a Bluetooth tracker that lets us locate our luggage, bike or whatever item we can attach it to. Ahead of its Made by Google event Wednesday, the search and AI giant released its Pixel 11 series, Pixel Watch 5 and
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Save $100: We love GoPro cameras, and the Mission 1 Pro is down to just $599 at Amazon right now. It’s also just an extra $1 at B&H, where its listed price is $600. Regardless of where you nab this deal, you’ll save $100, which amounts
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Right now, you can score the Google Pixel 10A for $75 off. You can also get $200 off the Aiper Scuba S1 robot pool cleaner. Finally, you can grab the Blink Outdoor 2K Plus security cam for almost half off, all at Amazon. I’ve been tracking the prices of
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Aug 12, 2026 4:14 PM Stop Eating Diarrhea Lettuce. Grow Your Own Greens Indoors for 20 Percent Off Lettuce Grow, one of my favorite indoor gardens, lets you cultivate your own salads safely—right in your living room. Courtesy of Lettuce Grow All products featured on WIRED are independently
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* Congressman Ro Khanna has introduced H. Res. 1471, a "Data Center Bill of Rights" * It calls for a 2,500-foot buffer around homes, schools, and hospitals * It also enshrines local veto power protected from state preemption, mandatory impact reports and water disclosure, and clawbacks on subsidies in a
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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The streaming platform Twitch will now use creators’ content to help train generative AI models for its parent company, Amazon. This move has inspired swift and concentrated backlash from the Twitch community, especially because creators are opted in to having their content used for this AI training by default. For
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Gettyimages.com/NurPhoto / Contributor ByNick Wakeman, Editor-in-Chief, Washington Technology August 12, 2026 04:11 PM ET A new $244M Pentagon memo skips the Federal Acquisition Regulation's process for sole-source justifications and urges agencies to find ways to work with the company. * Contracts Palantir has secured another lucrative commitment
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Save $35: The Google Pixelsnap charger (with stand) just hit a new record-low price at Amazon. This $70 charger is now discounted by 50%, which drops its price to only $35. Preorders for the Pixel 11 series went live earlier this morning, so if you’re considering getting a new
