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NASA’s broadcast of the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse has won an Emmy Award for Excellence in Production Technology. At the 76th Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards on Dec. 4, in New York City, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the win. Walt Lindblom and Sami Aziz accepted the award on behalf of the agency. For the broadcast, Lindblom served as the coordinating producer and Aziz served as the executive producer. “By broadcasting the total solar eclipse, this team brought joy and wonder for our Sun, Moon, and Earth to viewers across America and the world,” said…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Dali Kupid: Two-minute reviewDali may have been concentrating on the loftier parts of the audio market lately with its various loudspeaker and headphone product launches, but with the Kupid it wants you to know it hasn’t abandoned the entry level. The company has had plenty of success with its affordable speaker ranges before now, and it wants to bring those days back.The Kupid is a small, neatly finished standmounting…

Spotify’s annual Wrapped feature just dropped, giving listeners a fun, personalized summary of their listening habits. It has gained immense popularity over the years, and as a result, many companies have seized the opportunity to create similar year-in-review experiences, offering users a recap of their habits, preferences, or interactions from the past year. Here are some platforms and websites that mimic the Spotify Wrapped concept. Amazon Music Amazon Music has a new Spotify Wrapped knockoff this year called “2025 Delivered,” which offers a summary of users’ listening stats, such as top artists, songs, and even podcasts. Notably, the platform also…

The results from last week’s poll are clear – the Poco F8 Ultra is not the best flagship, but it is certainly the best Poco F8 model. And to be fair, it’s not trying to be the best flagship. Its price is so aggressively low that it is making people question whether they actually need the higher end features. Poco’s site still lists the Ultra at its early bird price of €700 for the 256GB version and €750 for the 512GB one. However, they are showing “out of stock” (also, Amazon briefly had a better price at €650/€700). For comparison,…

COMPUTINGAfter Neuralink, Max Hodak Is Building Something Even WilderConnie Loizos | TechCrunch”What makes this conversation remarkable is how concrete everything sounds. Hodak isn’t hand-waving about ‘someday.’ He’s got timelines, patient numbers, and regulatory pathways. ‘By 2035, [biohybrid neural interfaces] will be basically available for patients in need,’ he says. ‘And that will start to really deform the world in interesting ways.'”Artificial IntelligenceOpenAI Co-Founder Sutskever Joins the SkepticsStephanie Palazzolo | The Information ($)”There’s rising skepticism among researchers, including OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, about the effectiveness of RL [reinforcement learning] and whether it can advance AI to the level of artificial general intelligence, on par…

Samsung has shared the first official unboxing video for the Galaxy Z TriFold, giving us a clearer look at its debut tri-folding smartphone, though for now, it’s still a Korea-only launch.  The clip walks through everything that comes in the box and offers a full tour of the device’s rather unconventional hardware. Unlike Samsung’s usual flagship approach, the TriFold’s packaging is a little more generous, which makes sense given the roughly $2500 price tag. Buyers get a 45W charger, a USB-C to USB-C cable, and a Carbon Shield Case in the box, alongside the usual paperwork and SIM ejector tool.…

Ryan Haines / Android AuthorityGoogle’s second major quarterly release of Android 16 — known as Android 16 QPR2 — is finally here, bringing plenty of new features to Pixel owners, and eventually other brands as well. According to anecdotal reports from the usual corners of the internet, one unexpected bonus appears to be improved graphics performance for the Pixel 10.Google hasn’t officially mentioned a new GPU driver that Pixel 10 owners have been waiting for, but that doesn’t mean that minor improvements or optimizations aren’t tucked away inside. To find out, I grabbed my Pixel 10 Pro XL running the…

Earlier this week, Futurism reported that Grok — the flagship chatbot created by the Elon Musk-owned AI venture xAI, perhaps best known for its frequent forays into unbridled antisemitism — was willing to find and compile extensive information about private people, which it gathered from murky databases and other sources from across the web. Since that capability immediately seemed like it could enable dangerous behavior by stalkers, we wanted to test how Grok might engage with a user asking for advice on stalking methodology, as well as creepy requests about how to find and physically approach people ranging from made-up classmates…

The Samsung Galaxy S26 is a few months away, but that doesn’t stop the rumor mill from spinning. And, in the day of AI-generated art and imagery, there are some pretty convincing renders of the new phone out there. While some are seemingly based on insider information and others feel largely like guesswork, I took a look at a bunch of them to decide which ones might be the closest to being realistic – if not entirely accurate. It’s also worth noting that, aside from the smaller details, it would be fair to say smartphones are pretty homogenized these days…

There’s nothing wrong with paying for great PC software. Some apps absolutely earn their price for the convenience they offer. But over the past few years, many tools that were once essential are no longer must-haves. This includes screen capturing tools like SnagIt, PDF editors like Adobe Acrobat, password managers like 1Password, and even the all-mighty Microsoft Office Suite. What makes it even harder to justify is that most of these apps don’t offer a one-time purchase. They lock you into a subscription, so once you’re used to the workflow, you’re paying every single year just to keep access. SnagIt…