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LG leaves behind more than a flip phone-shaped hole in our hearts Allison Johnson LG’s exit from the smartphone business felt inevitable in the weeks leading up to it as rumors mounted. When it was finally confirmed, Avi Greengart, a longtime consumer tech analyst and president of Techsponential, noticed a trend toward nostalgia in the…
Google reportedly ran secret ‘Project Bernanke’ that boosted its own ad-buying system over competitors Kim Lyons Google reportedly ran a secret project called “Project Bernanke” that relied on bidding data collected from advertisers using its ad exchange to benefit the company’s own ad system, The Wall Street Journal reported. First discovered by newswire service MLex,…
Sweeping Whale Streaming Series, Profile of CRISPR Discoverer and an Examination of Future Realities Andrea Gawrylewski Secrets of the Whales by Brian Skerry Streaming on Disney+, starting April 22 Despite being warm-blooded, air-breathing mammals descended from land animals, whales give birth, nurse and raise their young entirely at sea. This sweeping four-part series…
One-chance assassination missions arrive in ‘Hitman 3’ | Engadget It took a while for IO Interactive to bring its well-known Elusive Target missions to Hitman 3, but they’re finally here. The game’s first high-stakes target, The Collector, is now available until April 19th. As with earlier marks, you have just one chance to assassinate this…
Sony wants to bring ‘popular’ PlayStation game franchises to phones | Engadget Sony hasn’t done much with PlayStation game franchises unless you count one-offs like Uncharted: Fortune Hunter, but that might change soon. Eurogamer has noticed that Sony is hiring an executive at PlayStation Studios that would focus on bringing PlayStation’s “most popular franchises” to…
NASA delays Mars helicopter flight to at least April 14th | Engadget You’ll have to wait a little while longer to see NASA’s Mars helicopter in action. The agency has delayed Ingenuity’s first flight to “no earlier than” April 14th after a test on April 9th went awry. The high-speed spin test finished prematurely after…
Biden’s first budget proposal would fight chip shortages with US factories | Engadget President Biden isn’t relying solely on an executive order to deal with chip shortages. The Verge reports that the Biden White House has issued its first budget proposal, and the plan would spend $150 million to establish two Manufacturing Innovation Institute programs…
Feds charge man with planning to blow up an Amazon data center | Engadget Amazon’s data centers are now potential targets for extremist attacks, according to law enforcement. As Variety reports, the FBI has arrested Texas resident Seth Aaron Pendley over a charge that he planned to blow up an Amazon Web Services data center…
ICYMI: We check out the new Sonos Roam portable speaker | Engadget All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. In the last few weeks,…
Hitting the Books: How biased AI can hurt users or boost a business’s bottom line | Engadget I’m not sure why people are worried about AI surpassing humanity’s collective intellect any time soon, we can’t even get the systems we have today to quit emulating some of our more ignoble tendencies. Or rather, perhaps we…