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CNET

A VPN on your smart TV will let you privately stream videos from any location. Sarah Tew/CNET. Do you want to avoid that …

The New York Times

The uncanny aspect of A.I. is front and center in “William,” Mason Coile’s slim, gripping novel about the horror of watching software embrace its will to power. The title character is a robot built to house an experimental A.I. …

The New York Times

Boeing’s Starliner is finally coming home, but the two NASA astronauts who traveled in the spacecraft to the International Space Station are not. After successfully undocking from the orbital outpost early on Friday evening, the empty and troubled …

CBS News

If you’re an Apple iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, MacBook or iMac user, these are the wireless earbuds you want to pair with your gear. You get auto pairing between all of your Apple devices, plus the ability to locate the AirPods Pro earbuds using the Find My …

TIME

Rapid COVID-19 tests have never been perfect. How are they holding up as new variants emerge? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to monitor the efficacy of the diagnostics …

Space.com

Boeing’s first Starliner capsule to carry astronauts to the International Space Station left the orbiting lab on Friday (Sept. 6) leaving its crew behind as it prepares for landing, which you can watch live online tonight.

Rolling Stone

PlayStation’s Concord launched on Aug. 23; as of today, it’s dead. Conceived eight years ago by former Bungie developers (Destiny, Halo) by then working at Firewalk Studios, Concord and its team were brought into Sony PlayStation’s first-party …

Reuters

WASHINGTON, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station on Friday, leaving behind its first crew of U.S. astronauts to return to Earth empty and finish a drawn-out test mission fraught with technical …

The New York Times

Introducing Connections Bot: a daily tool that provides a personalized analysis of your Connections solve, inspired by WordleBot. Connections Bot lets you know the puzzle’s difficulty level, and whether you made the same mistakes as other solvers.

Reuters

Arm had said in July that its V9 chip accounts for 50% of smartphone revenue. Arm owns the intellectual property behind the computing architecture for most of the world’s smartphones, which it licenses to Apple …