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HeadphonesSony Sony WF-SP700N HeadphonesSony Sony WF-SP700N Sony WF-SP700N What is it? Water resistant, truly wireless earbuds with noise cancelling Price $180 Like Awesome fit and sound quality No Like Awful battery life The new $180 Sony WF-SP700N earbuds look great. Unlike a lot of unwieldy competitors, these truly wireless buds sit flush against your head…

A micrograph of prostatic acinar adenocarcinoma, the most common form of prostate cancer.Image: Nephron (Wikimedia Commons) A test developed by scientists in the UK and US might someday be able to pinpoint the men most likely to get prostate cancer. A new study published Monday in Nature Genetics suggests the test can detect the one…

Photo: Getty Pornhub has taken a strong stance against deepfakes, because the porn site understands that the machine-learning-generated videos that swap out performers’ faces with someone else’s are non-consensual. But a recent lawsuit accuses the company of running a person’s face in an without their consent. Edward Kelly of Marlton, New Jersey sued MindGeek, owner…

Screenshot: Apple However, the addition of section 3.1.5 (b) has introduced a few more rules for what can and can’t be done in relation to cryptocurrencies on iOS devices. The move by Apple mirrors policies instituted by Google in Chrome that banned all cryptocurrency mining extensions from the Chrome Store. Going forward, crypto wallets or…

No, not that big, unidentified insect at right; Jason is the teeny beetle at the very bottom.Photo: Shuhei Yamamoto, Field Museum Featherwing beetles are some of the smallest insects out there—and one researcher managed to spot an ancient specimen in a 99-million-year-old chunk of amber. Just half a millimeter long, this Cretaceous period beetle had…

Photo: Getty Two young men were beaten to death in India on Saturday after residents suspected they were child kidnappers, the BBC and Aljazeera report. The men, Nilotpal Das, a 29-year-old audio engineer and Abijeet Nath, a 30-year-old digital artist, reportedly stopped in a remote village to ask for directions, but were attacked by a mob…

Photo: Spudaitis (Pixabay) With summer just around the corner, it’s getting to be the perfect weather to enjoy some delish fruits of the melon variety. Unfortunately, there’s a nasty outbreak of Salmonella that’s contaminated certain brands of pre-cut melons, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On Friday, the CDC reported that at…

Photo: AP The U.S. government on Monday sanctioned five Russian companies and three Russian nationals said to have aided Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which the Trump administration says waged cyberattacks against the United States and threatened the internet’s core infrastructure. In a statement, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the sanctions were part of an…

Wyatt Little has designed the first computer that performs much better with Windows—and lots of sunlight. In many ways, this Little Computer Planter is vastly superior to your laptop. There’s no email to deal with, no internet, no Twitter, and it will turn the CO2 you exhale with every saddened sigh into life-giving oxygen. Despite…

Photo: Richard Rodriguez (AP) Every 45-year-old’s favorite social network app, Snapchat, is adding a feature that will no doubt appeal to anyone sending ill-conceived jokes, bad pickup lines, or messages one may want to think twice about disseminating. According to 9to5Mac, Snap’s new unsend feature will let you revoke any unseen message, video, photo, or…