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Every month, a group of Indigenous scientists from around the world gathers on Zoom. They never have an agenda. They meet as colleagues to catch up and commiserate about the challenges of being Indigenous in Western academia.Their February meeting, however, quickly struck a different tone. “There was this cascade that started happening,” recalled Max Liboiron, a professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland who hosts the virtual calls. “Everyone in the US was like, ‘Holy shit. My career is over. My students’ funding is screwed.’” Liboiron immediately entered triage mode. A geographer and university administrator by trade, Liboiron used to organize…
Panasonic revealed its latest flagship 4K TVs back at CES 2025 in January, but I finally had the chance to check them out in the flesh during a European launch event last week in Wiesbaden, Germany. The Panasonic 2025 TV lineup includes a handful of OLED TVs as well as a large selection of LEDs and a mini-LED option, too. It’s headlined by the terrific Z95B OLED, following up last year’s Z95A. So what makes it special? For starters the 55, 65 and 77in Z95B uses the same Primary Tandem RGB OLED panel four-stack approach as the excellent LG G5.…
Google Keep has finally expanded the text formatting options to its web app, almost two years after making them available for Android users. The update for Google’s web-based note-taking service is now rolling out to Google Workspace, Workspace Individual, and personal Google account users and provides new options for customizing text and heading styles. It may take a few weeks for the text formatting options to appear for everyone. The new formatting options are housed in the underlined “A” button found in the bottom left-hand corner of the updated Keep text editor. Clicking this will open a new toolbar that…
While there are plenty of top fitness trackers to choose from, Whoop is one of the most popular. The Whoop 5.0 was unveiled last week with some big upgrades. I’m most excited about the new blood pressure feature and am ready to swap out my Apple Watch Ultra. But there was one big problem, which Whoop has already fixed, despite the tracker not being available yet. Whoop managed to enrage its most loyal customers before shipping a single device. It took the decision to quietly bin a core part of its membership promise. But after a week of outrage and Reddit…
If you’re considering a phone upgrade, you’re in the right place. With so many options available, it can be overwhelming to choose the right one, but our comprehensive guide is here to help. We’ve carefully ranked our favourites below, focusing on the key aspects that matter most to users. Whether you’re eyeing a large-screen Android device or the latest iPhone flagship, we’ve rigorously reviewed the top smartphones on the market. Our evaluation process is hands-on. We test every smartphone in real-world conditions to ensure it performs well in everyday life. This includes binge-watching series to assess battery life and capturing…
Apple’s upcoming launches are always ones to watch. 2025’s iPhone 17 will be no different, and it’s at the top of my list of the best upcoming phones. But it’s the iPhones that are coming afterwards that seem more interesting right now. Apple’s roadmap for the iPhone has looked the same for a while now – four new models, a September release, and the same “you won’t believe how slightly better this camera is” spiel. But, the tech giant has been teasing big things to come for a while. A leaked memo from Apple’s head hardware honcho said that “big things…
Chinese phone manufacturer Honor has launched an image-to-video AI generator powered by Google, before it’s available to Gemini users. It will be available first for anyone who buys the Honor 400 or 400 Pro phones, which launch next week on May 22nd.The new AI tool, powered by Google’s Veo 2 model, creates five-second videos based on static images, in either portrait or landscape, and takes a minute or two to generate each time. The feature is built directly into the Gallery app on the new Honor phones, and is designed to be simple: there’s no option to include a text…
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Friday that her government is suing Google for relabeling the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America” for US users, CBS News reports. The company had done so in Google Maps after President Trump ordered the name change at the beginning of his Presidential term.The lawsuit makes good on Sheinbaum’s February threat that Mexico would “proceed to court” if the company didn’t change the name, which it kept as Gulf of Mexico for users in Mexico, but switched to “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” in regions outside of the two countries. According to a…
This morning, while summarizing an Apple “product blitz” he expects for 2027, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes in his Power On newsletter that Apple is planning a “mostly glass, curved iPhone” with no display cutouts for that year, which happens to be the iPhone’s 20th anniversary.That follows a report last weekend from The Information, which said that “at least one 2027 iPhone model that will place the front-facing camera underneath the screen to enable a truly edge-to-edge display.” Late last year, a report from The Elec said Apple is working with its display partners to create a bezel-less iPhone, but not…
If you’re like me, you’ve been anxiously searching for any relief from the Bad News™ and endless stream of AI slop plaguing your feed. Joseph Ricketts’ breathtaking wildlife videos could be the antidote. An alligator taking a nap on the floor of a crystal clear spring. Schools of fish glittering in the darkness. A cosmic cloud of burnt orange tannic river swirling into clear blue water. A giant salamander battle on an Appalachian riverbed. Joseph is an ecologist, underwater videographer, and alligator researcher based in Florida. He brings a calming and curious gaze to some of the more obscure underwater…