California Man Stole 610,000 iCloud Photos in Search of Nudes

Plus: The T-Mobile hacker, another big bad Microsoft bug, and more of the week's top security news.

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The 8 Best Smart Speakers With Alexa or Google Assistant

Chatty assistants from Google, Amazon, and Apple are popular. But which one is right for you?

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‘Prebunking’ Health Misinformation Tropes Can Stop Their Spread

Preemptively familiarizing people with centuries-old anti-vaccine narratives may be more effective than retroactive fact-checking.

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The Samsung Galaxy Watch4 Is Almost Android's Apple Watch

The company's new smartwatches breathe new life into Google's Wear OS 3, and a dose of hope for the future.

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Radioactive Rat Snakes Could Help Monitor Fukushima Fallout

Scientists have attached dosimeters to the reptiles so they can serve as living “bioindicators” to gauge contamination levels near the shuttered nuclear power plant.

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Last Stop Is a Playable Love Letter to London

The title’s three codirectors discuss bringing their TV-show-meets-adventure-game project to life.

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17 Early Labor Day Deals on Laptops, Headlamps, and TVs

Get ready for fall with the best discounts on everything from home entertainment to fitness tracking.

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Explosion in Geofence Warrants Threatens Privacy Nationwide

New figures from Google show a tenfold increase in the requests from law enforcement, which target anyone who happened to be in a given location at a specified time.

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Why Florida’s Covid Surge Is Screwing With the Water Supply

More people in the hospital means more people need oxygen. But treatment plants also need the gas to purify water.

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New Vaccine Decisions, an Influx of Mandates, and More News

Catch up on the most important updates from this week.

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Making Diablo II Was Pure Hell

David L. Craddock's recent book about the game reveals the massive amount of development that went into it.

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The Architects of the Metaverse Need to Read the Virtual Room

Plus: Ten years of Apple without Steve Jobs, thoughts on the Apple Watch, and a baby bird’s worst nightmare.

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You Should Have Waited for the Official 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Trailer

Also: The latest Matrix sequel has a title and that’s all I want to know about it.

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The 5 Best Portable Espresso Makers for a Shot on the Go

Make a barista-worthy cup on the road, back at camp, or anywhere else, with these handheld machines.

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Would the Free Guy Inflatable Bubble Protect a Real Person?

In the movie’s video game world, a whole-body airbag protects Ryan Reynolds as he falls off of a building and onto a car. Would that … work?

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Can the Metaverse Thrive if It’s Fully Owned by Facebook?

This week, we step into the social network's vision of the metaverse, where reality and the simulated world become one. Kinda.

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The Joy of Walking in Games

Here's what you need to know about walking simulators and the psychological benefits of how games can offer a much-needed escape.

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Titan's Strange Chemical World Gets Simulated in Tiny Tubes

A research chemist mixed nitrogen, methane, and other molecules to recreate the conditions that might harbor life on one of Saturn’s moons.

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This Rice Cooker Also Slow Cooks, But in Teensy Batches

This Zojirushi's limited ability to cook large quantities of anything other than rice and grains makes it hard to justify its higher-than-average price tag.

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A Bad Solar Storm Could Cause an 'Internet Apocalypse'

The undersea cables that connect much of the world would be hit especially hard by a coronal mass ejection.

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