Month Archives: December 2025

Tech

How iRobot lost its way home

There’s something painfully American about the arc of iRobot, the company that taught your vacuum to navigate around the furniture. Founded in 1990 in Bedford, Massachusetts by MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks and his former students Colin Angle and Helen Greiner, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday, punctuating...

News

What we know as police detain suspect

Watch: Police release CCTV of Brown University shooting suspectPolice have detained a person of interest in connection with a US shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and nine others injured. An earlier order for people on the Brown campus and surrounding areas to shelter in place has...

Science

Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer

Quantum particles can now be made to carry useful information for longerkoto_feja/Getty Images The odd phenomenon of quantum superposition has helped researchers break a fundamental quantum mechanical limit – and given quantum objects properties that make them useful for quantum computing for longer periods of time. For a century, physicists...

Social media

YouTube Looks to Streamline Sponsored Content Partnerships

YouTube’s trying to make it easier for creators to partner with brands on content promotions, with some new updates to its branded content partnership process that will enable brands to gain direct access to sponsored video performance insights. First off, YouTube has announced that it’s rebranding its brand–initiated video linking...

Tech

Give your Mac Microsoft’s best tools for under $10 each

TL;DR: Give your Mac a boost with this Microsoft Office Home and Business for Mac 2021 lifetime license, on sale now for just $49.97 (reg. $219). No room in the budget for a new computer? You can give your current one a boost with a Microsoft Office license, and if...

MovieMovies

Ella McCay review – comfort food reheated, with a…

It’s been 15 years since filmmaker and TV legend James L Brooks last attempted to make a romantic comedy. The memory of 2010’s How Do You Know – a film that stumbled both critically and commercially – disappeared without a trace. So when the trailer for his new film, Ella McCay, appeared, announcing his return to the...

Mobile

16GB RAM phones’ existence threatened by memory shortage

The memes about RAM prices are funny and all, but the consequences of the memory supply crunch are anything but. Word on the street is that 16GB RAM phones will become extinct next year and we will see the return of budget phones with 4GB RAM. We've already seen some...

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