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20 inventions that should have existed centuries earlier

The most baffling gaps in invention history are not the complex ones — they are the simple ones, where all the required knowledge existed for centuries and nobody connected the dots [...]

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20 simple inventions that took far too long to exist

From wheeled luggage to the can opener, these ordinary objects appeared decades or centuries after the technology to make them already existed [...]

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The digital age didn't build itself. These 25 inventions did

From the transistor to the touchscreen, the inventions that made digital life possible are older, stranger, and more contested than most people realize [...]

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Centuries before the Inca, Peru's wealthy imported parrots from afar

The Inca Empire's system of roads were built on centuries-old trade routes. [...]

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CVSS scored these two Palo Alto CVEs as manageable. Chained, they gave attackers root access to 13,000 devices.

During Operation Lunar Peek in November 2024, attackers gained unauthenticated remote admin access — and eventual root — across more than 13,000 exposed Palo Alto Networks management interfaces. P [...]

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Health Tech Inventions at CES 2025 Could Transform the Future of Personal Wellness

Health-screening mirrors and revolutionary sleep tracking advances are a few of the most exciting wellness products at this year's CES. [...]

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When product managers ship code: AI just broke the software org chart

Last week, one of our product managers (PMs) built and shipped a feature. Not spec'd it. Not filed a ticket for it. Built it, tested it, and shipped it to production. In a day.A few days earlier, [...]

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Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+

The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]

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25 things that had to be true for the smartphone to exist

From transistors to touchscreens, the smartphone required centuries of breakthroughs in physics, chemistry, manufacturing, and global trade to converge at exactly the right moment [...]

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Trump's federal Bitcoin reserve order leaves the crypto market unenthused

With US stocks unstable, consumer confidence in the economy plunging and whispers of a potential recession growing less muted, the economy under President Donald Trump's second term has been abou [...]

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