Tech

Tech buzzwords are clanging through the halls of Washington, DC. The Trump administration has promised to “leverage blockchain technology” to reorganize the US Agency for International Development, and Elon Musk’s DOGE has already unleashed an internal chatbot to automate agency tasks—with bigger plans on the horizon to take over for laid-off employees. The executive order …

DOGE’s tech takeover threatens the safety and stability of our critical data Read More »

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. DOGE’s tech takeover threatens the safety and stability of our critical data —Steven Renderos is the executive director of Media Justice Tech buzzwords are clanging through the halls of Washington, DC. The Trump …

The Download: the dangers of DOGE, and how to blow up an asteroid Read More »

One day, in the near or far future, an asteroid about the length of a football stadium will find itself on a collision course with Earth. If we are lucky, it will land in the middle of the vast ocean, creating a good-size but innocuous tsunami, or in an uninhabited patch of desert. But if …

Meet the researchers testing the “Armageddon” approach to asteroid defense Read More »

President Donald Trump wants to expand his already chaotic and cruel mass deportations. On Monday, he told reporters that he’s looking into the possibility of sending US citizens to a megaprison in El Salvador. “I’d like to go a step further,” Trump claimed at a press conference with Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele on Monday. “I …

Trump says he wants to deport some US citizens, too Read More »

Image: Acemagic Know what’s the best thing to fit in that spot just beneath your monitors? A mini PC! Free up all that space taken up by your laptop and get more performance while you’re at it with something like this Acemagic F1A mini PC that’s on sale for $382 on Amazon. That’s 36% off …

This Core i9 mini PC with 32GB RAM is absurdly cheap right now Read More »

The Trump tariffs have eased on most technology products, even those from China, according to a new amended executive order the Trump administration filed Friday night. The latest order is a “clarification of exceptions” to Trump’s earlier order on April 2, regarding tariffed goods imported to the United States from China. That order raised tariffs …

Trump exempts PCs, smartphones, and components from tariffs Read More »

Image: Acer There are plenty of PC gaming options out there if you don’t want to spend a lot of money. But if you want some serious polygon-pushing power in a laptop, you’re going to have to part with a few Benjamins. This weekend, you can get an Acer Predator gaming laptop for a few …

Get this Acer gaming laptop with RTX 4070 for a crazy $600 off Read More »

Image: Acemagic Know what’s the best thing to fit in that spot just beneath your monitors? A mini PC! Free up all that space taken up by your laptop and get more performance while you’re at it with something like this Acemagic F1A mini PC that’s on sale for $382 on Amazon. That’s 36% off …

This Core i9 mini PC with 32GB RAM is absurdly cheap right now Read More »

The Trump tariffs have eased on many technology products, even those from China, according to a new amended executive order the Trump administration filed Friday night. The latest order is a “clarification of exceptions” to Trump’s earlier order on April 2, regarding tariffed goods imported to the United States from China. That order raised tariffs …

Trump exempts PCs, smartphones, and components from tariffs Read More »

Image: Acer There are plenty of PC gaming options out there if you don’t want to spend a lot of money. But if you want some serious polygon-pushing power in a laptop, you’re going to have to part with a few Benjamins. This weekend, you can get an Acer Predator gaming laptop for a few …

Get this Acer gaming laptop with RTX 4070 for a crazy $600 off Read More »