The new sensor-packed Smart Play Brick will land this spring as part of a special Star Wars collection. The update adds ...

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Forward-looking: When wildfires sweep through the dry hills outside Los Angeles, homes can be lost in moments. A California startup imagines a different outcome: as embers fall and nearby brush ...

The use of “trusted” digital ID software to verify your identity online in the UK has taken on a statutory footing as of 1 December. The measures contained in the Data (Use and Access) Act, which ...

Apple announced its new Digital ID initiative back at WWDC in June, but the capability didn’t ship as part of iOS 26—it was one of the very few announcements that took a little longer to reach our ...

Apple Watch and iPhone owners in the United States will now be able to carry a copy of their U.S. passport on their device, which they can then use at TSA checkpoints across more than 250 U.S.

The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...

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In 1986, the appeal of “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)” was delightfully uncomplicated. The Beastie Boys had turned the simple art of rebelling against authority figures—teachers, ...

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I use nine free digital tools daily to simplify work and life — from Adobe Firefly for AI images and Google’s Notebook LLM for organizing docs to Bitwarden for passwords, Temp Mail for privacy, and ...