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A 2,000-square-mile canal built without rulers—and archaeologists still can’t believe the math
A 2,000-year-old Colombian canal system challenges everything we thought about how large-scale infrastructure gets built. New study reveals it was…
Your TV remote still fires 1980s infrared at your screen — and why Bluetooth never killed it is stranger than you’d think
Why infrared remotes dominate TVs despite Bluetooth's existence. A researcher stress-tested surveillance pricing by faking his data trail—and found something…
NASA’s Perseverance rover just broke Mars distance records by driving itself—90 percent of the time, no human commands needed
Perseverance drives itself 90% of the time on Mars using onboard AI. One hardware upgrade transformed a rover into a…
The hardware hacker who built a chip you can literally see through—and Defcon just handed 27,000 to hackers
Andrew Bunnie Huang created a see-through security chip for Defcon 34 badges. 27,000 hackers now have one designed to be…