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The latest and greatest M3 MacBook Air is now on sale and that means that people have been putting it through its paces for a little while. The machine has a lot going for it not least an upgraded chip, a thin and light design, and a choice of colors to boot. But one of the notable additions over the previous models is that the latest MacBook Air can be hooked up to two external monitors at once. The limitation? You'll lose access to the internal display, but that could be worth the trade-off if you need extra space with…

One of the first, and arguably still most, intriguing things about Amazon’s Fallout adaptation was the news that Walton Goggins would appear in the series—with the intrigue doubled further when that news was paired with the fact he’d be playing a noseless, peeling, irradiated creature known as a Ghoul. That remains the case as we’ve seen more of the show, and Goggins is only playing up the intrigue further.Unboxing Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Limited Edition Playstation 5 BundleToday’s trailer revealed that Fallout will play…

Apple just announced the new M3 MacBook Air, and alongside performance improvements, there’s also a feature users have been clamoring for — albeit with a catch.Both 13-inch and 15-inch M3 MacBook Air models will now support up to two external displays instead of just one with the previous M2 model. That said, Apple’s definition of dual monitor support might be a little different from what you had in mind. The M2 Air could support one external display and the built-in Liquid Retina display, while the new M3 Airs can…

A big leak of data from a Chinese cybersecurity firm has revealed state security agents paying tens of thousands of pounds to harvest data on targets, including foreign governments, while hackers hoover up huge amounts of information on any person or institution who might be of interest to their prospective clients.The cache of more than 500 leaked files from the Chinese firm I-Soon was posted on the developer website Github and is thought by cybersecurity experts to be genuine. Some of the targets discussed include Nato…

You’d think grabbing a scoop of dirt off an orbiting space rock and then delivering it back to Earth would be the most complicated part of an asteroid sample collection mission, but the real challenge, it turns out, is actually opening that sample container once it’s back home. It’s taken a little over three months, but says it has finally removed two stuck fasteners that were preventing it from accessing the bulk of material collected from asteroid Bennu by its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. OSIRIS-REx dropped the sample off on…

It's been over 3.5 months since NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off its precious sample of asteroid dust, and scientists have finally managed to get the lid off the sample container.Now, the team can finally complete the steps needed to disassemble the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM) container, and access the rocks and dirt collected from asteroid Bennu. Once retrieved, the sample can be divvied up and distributed to science teams around the world."Finally having the TAGSAM head open and full…

Here’s a documentary about a vanished woman that is not true crime (unless crimes against feminism count). It is about trailblazing American sex researcher Shere Hite, exploring how she disappeared from the who’s who of 20th-century feminists. In 1976, Hite became famous almost overnight with the publication of her groundbreaking book The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality. Based on an anonymous survey of 3,000 women about their sex lives, it sold 48m copies. Hite’s big finding was that 70% of women…

Luke Larsen / Digital Trends Lenovo has been experimenting with e-ink screens on its laptops for years, but this is the first one that has really caught my eye. On its new ThinkBook 13x Gen 4 SPE, which was shown off at CES 2024, you have a full “E Ink Prism” screen covering the entirety of the laptop lid. E-ink Prism isn’t your typical e-ink though. It can present eight colors and combine them in whatever patterns designers want, and is claimed to “bridge the gap between traditional static materials and digital…

So, you headed into 2023 with a new pair of running shoes. You set off for your first run, but the track was much tougher than you first expected. At the end of your run, you realize that your heart rate remained in the red zone throughout, working you harder than you would have done in perfect conditions.  The moral of the metaphor: When pushed into the unknown, we tend to do quite well.2023 has been a transformative year despite its many hurdles. We’ve all experienced budget, growth and efficiency pressures…

April 2019Australia’s colonial history is dotted with fires so enormous they have their own names. The worst, Black Saturday, struck the state of Victoria on February 7, 2009. Fifteen separate fires scorched the state over just two days, killing 173 people. While Australia is notorious for spectacular blazes, it actually ranks below the United States, Indonesia, Canada, Portugal, and Spain when it comes to the economic damage caused by wildfires over the past century. That’s because while other nations argue about the…