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JerryRigEverything Puts Apple’s iPhone Duo Through Brutal Durability Gauntlet and Finds Critical Flaws

Zach Nelson of JerryRigEverything wasted little time putting Apple’s first foldable, the iPhone Duo, through the usual sequence of scratches, flames, dust, and bends the day after it went on sale. Outer glass held up in familiar fashion. Ceramic Shield 2 on the front panel showed only the faintest marks once the Mohs hardness picks […]

Iconic penguin colony sees “population collapse” driven by climate change, study finds

A remote island near Antarctica is no longer home to the world’s largest penguin colony as climate-driven changes to ocean food chains likely devastated its once-thriving inhabitants and caused a “population collapse,” researchers said Wednesday. Drone and satellite images showed that the volcanic island of Zavodovski lost more than 680,000 — or nearly two-thirds — […]

Toronto’s One-Foot Pogo Bot Finds Its Grip on Ice and Sand

Four small propellers sit over a single spring leg, and the pair turns a quadcopter into a machine that travels the way a pogo stick does. Researchers at the University of Toronto’s CLIMB Lab send it up with rotor thrust, then let a passive telescopic leg take the landing and hand that energy back as […]

James Webb Finds Two Rare Gravitational Mirrors in Cluster MACS J0454.1-0300

Golden elliptical galaxies fill the middle of the newest James Webb Picture of the Month, released this morning. They belong to the cluster MACS J0454.1-0300. Orange galaxies crowd one side of the frame and stretch into a broad arc around the brightest central members, while smaller reddish objects bend into short arcs even near the […]

iFixit Opens Steam Frame and Finds Valve Packed a Whole Computer Around Your Eyes With Room to Work

Days after Valve started sending Steam Frame kits to buyers, iFixit already had one open on the bench and mostly liked what sat inside. Steam Frame launched September 14 as a standalone SteamOS headset that also streams from a PC through an included wireless adapter, starting at $1,059 for 256GB and $1,299 for 1TB, with […]

Majority of Americans think Trump administration should end Iran war now, CBS News poll finds

With just a few months until the midterms, a new CBS News poll shows most Americans disapprove of the war with Iran. More than two-thirds of Americans polled think the Trump administration should end the war now. Nancy Cordes has more. Majority of Americans think Trump administration should end Iran war now, CBS News poll […]

CBS News poll finds Iran conflict marked by feelings of uncertainty; most say it’s more difficult than Trump had expected

Across months of the Iran conflict, the public continues to express three main ideas: A perceived lack of clarity about what’s happening day to day in the Strait of Hormuz. There are plenty of important goals the U.S. could seek, now that we’re in the conflict. The conflict is not going well. So today, as […]