Power bank, water hack, 🐀 pee, VPN, Spotify, Windows ads, new city, supernova, Pixel lab, chess pieces and 🐙. There are some really interesting stories in this week’s news so make sure to check out the headlines and read up on everything.

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• This Logitech Mouse Comes With AI Buttons: Do People Really Want That?
• Nothing’s Ear and Ear (a) earbuds with active noise cancellation are now available for pre-order
• The longest-lasting power bank I’ve tested also has life-saving features
  ***** Get Anker Power Bank Power Station 60,000mAh at Amazon *****
• Falcon Northwest Talon (2024, Threadripper Pro) Review
• Using an Apple Watch for the First Time Transformed My Relationship With Self Care
• This tiny USB meter shows if your chargers actually have the power they claim
  ***** Get Power-Z C240 Portable USB-C Tester at Amazon *****
• Not into the Tesla Powerwall? You can now buy the Anker Solix X1

• Russia May Be Behind Hack of Texas Water Facility
• Got a Phone Call From LastPass? Hang Up, It’s a Phishing Scam
• Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules
• Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian malware
• The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC
• Hackers infect users of antivirus service that delivered updates over HTTP

• Life-threatening rat pee infections reach record levels in NYC
• The GMO tooth microbe that is supposed to prevent cavities
• How Many More Ozempic-like Drugs Are In the Pipeline — Here’s What Researchers Are Working On
• Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR
• Glued to Your Phone? Here’s Why, and How to Fix It

• Proton VPN review (2024): A very solid VPN with robust leak protection
• Use These Spotify Settings to Make Your Favorite Songs Sound Even Better
• How to create a drop-down list in Excel – quickly and easily
• Tesla teases its upcoming Uber-like self-driving ride-hailing app
• Microsoft Pushes Start Menu Ads to All Windows 11 Users
• Windows 11 now comes with its own adware
• Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective

• Boston Dynamics’ new humanoid moves like no robot you’ve ever seen
• Prime Video looking to fix “extremely sloppy mistakes” in library, report says
• Meet QDEL, the backlight-less display tech that could replace OLED in premium TVs
• Modder packs an entire Nintendo Wii into a box the size of a pack of cards
• Is UMaine’s Experimental 3D-Printed Dwelling the Future of Affordable Housing?
• When Was the Last Time We Built a New City?
• How light can vaporize water without the need for heat
• How to See the Super-Bright Star Nova Set to Explode Any Minute
• TSMC Fires Shot Across Intel’s Bow With New 1.6nm A16 Node for 2026

• Got an S22? Galaxy S24 Upgrade Offers Worthwhile Speed Boost, Ookla Finds
• My iPhone 15 Pro Max After 7 Months: Too Many Drops to Count, but Still Great
• Three iPhone 16 features that would win me over from Android
• Exclusive: Google’s Top Secret Camera Lab Is Like an Ikea for Pixel Testing
• My free phone deal calculator can help you separate the real steals from the rip-offs
• Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera
• First real-life Pixel 9 Pro pictures leak, and it has 16GB of RAM
• T-Mobile Adds New Fixed Wireless Plans: One for Home, One for the Road
• A Polestar Phone now inexplicably exists

• Feds expand investigation into Honda’s automatic emergency braking system
• Are Electric Vehicles Actually Good for the Climate?
• Cybertruck’s latest design fail looks like the beginning of the end
• Mercedes-Benz quad-motor G-Class could be the ultimate EV off-roader
• Mercedes Reveals EV G-Class, But It’s Still Working on Those Next-Gen Batteries

Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.

• Why New England’s Stone Walls Are Unlike Any Others
• The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’
• Svalbard’s Lonely Whaler Graves Included Burial Kits With Pieces of Distant Homes
• How Did the Chess Pieces Get Their Names?
• Explore a digitized collection of doomed Everest climber’s letters home
• Dig a Tunnel Through the Center of the Earth to… Where?
• The World’s Most Remote Triathlon Involves Bird Eggs, a Volcano, and Bananas
• Meet the Giant Salmon With a Weaponized Mustache
• Secrets of the Octopus takes us inside the world of these “aliens on Earth”
  I watched this series and found it fascinating. Now I want to get underwater and find some octopuses to observe personally.

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