Dear Heloise: To get more use out of discarded Christmas lights, I place a strand in a decorative container and leave them on at night as a night light. This is helpful when walking into a dark living ...

A new optical device allows researchers to generate and switch between two stable, donut-shaped light patterns called skyrmions. These light vortices hold their shape even when disturbed, making them ...

A new software update for Analogue’s modern recreation of the N64 makes authentic retro gaming more convenient. A new software update for Analogue’s modern recreation of the N64 makes authentic ...

Is the Arduino Uno Q the missing piece in your next project? With its hybrid design that fuses the precision of a microcontroller with the flexibility of a Linux-based single-board computer, this ...

Philips Hue’s new SpatialAware feature puts a digital lighting designer in your living room. Philips Hue’s new SpatialAware feature puts a digital lighting designer in your living room. Color-changing ...

Google’s Nano Banana Renews AI Privacy Concerns for 1.5 Billion People Your email has been sent A familiar cloud of doubt is drifting back over Google… and it’s ...

Apple is aiming to improve your appearance on video calls with its latest MacOS 26.2 update. It has rolled out a feature called Edge Light, which is a video effect that creates a virtual ring light in ...

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. Sometimes you need just a little bit more light during a video call, especially if you're in a dimly lit room. The ...

Quantum communication is edging closer to reality thanks to a breakthrough in teleporting information between photons from different quantum dots—one of the biggest challenges in building a quantum ...

Many of us dread having to go through that poorly timed intersection in our area where the light is red for several minutes, turns green just long enough to let maybe three cars through, then changes ...

Google’s Nano Banana image generator has already gone viral because of how really, incredibly, and scarily good it is. But today, it’s old news already. Google just announced the much more impressive ...