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Poor Indoor Air Quality? These 6 Common Household Items May Be to Blame

Just because you don't battle wildfire smoke or city smog on the daily doesn't mean you're not susceptible to polluted air. In many cases, the call -- or cause of this tainted air -- may be coming from inside the house. According to Michael Rubino, founder of HomeCleanse and chairman of Change the Air Foundation, "Indoor air is not as healthy as we may think." Rubino, who hosts the health-focused podcast Never Been Sicker, identifies several potential offenders sitting in our homes, going mostl

Coke Designed a Plastic Bottle to Sell Us All More Soda

By the early 1990s, most of Coke’s drinks across the US were being sold in disposable cans and PET bottles. Returnable glass made up less than 1 percent of what it sold in the US. Yet the company still wanted to hang on to the wholesome image evoked by its contour glass bottle. Courtesy of Blink Publishing Buy This Book At: Amazon Bookshop.org Barnes & Noble If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Coca-Cola’s a

Google’s Android for PC: ‘I’ve seen it, it is incredible’

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is continuing to slowly tease its rumored plans to bring Android to PCs, merging it with ChromeOS, and now Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon is getting in on the action. He says he’s seen a version of the software, and that he “can’t wait to have one.” Amon was speaking on stage with Go

The LiberNovo Omni is a dynamic ergonomic chair that adjusts like no other, and you can pre-order one now

Whether you’re working or playing games, if you’ve spent any amount of time at a desk staring at a monitor, you’ve likely also spent a lot of that shifting around trying to find any semblance of comfort. The chair isn’t usually the first thing that comes to mind when planning desk setups, but a bad one will leave your neck and back crying for help. And while ergonomic chairs might have all the right curves, they’re still generally static and rigid. While we, usually, aren’t. These are the liter

Tether CEO confirms major capital raise at a reported $500 billion valuation

Venezuelan Bolivar and U.S. Dollar banknotes and representations of cryptocurrency Tether are seen in this illustration taken Sept. 8, 2025. Tether, the issuer of the world's largest stablecoin, is evaluating a major fundraising round, its CEO Paolo Ardoino, has confirmed, in a deal that could reportedly put the crypto company's value on par with OpenAI. The El Salvador-based company is looking to raise between $15 billion and $20 billion for a roughly 3% stake through a private placement, acc

Quadratic memory reductions for Zero-knowledge Proofs

SSZKP — Sublinear-Space Zero-Knowledge Proofs (Rust, KZG/BN254) A reference implementation of the sublinear-space ZKP prover/Verifier described in our whitepaper: "Zero-knowledge Proofs in Sublinear Space" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05326). It realizes a streaming prover that uses only O(√T) memory over a trace of length T, while producing standard KZG commitments (BN254) for wires, the permutation accumulator Z , and the quotient Q . The design keeps aggregate-only Fiat–Shamir and never mater

MLB approves robot umpires for 2026 as part of challenge system

Open Extended Reactions Major League Baseball will implement a challenge system for balls and strikes in the 2026 season after the league's competition committee voted Tuesday to usher in the era of robot umpiring. Following years of testing in the minor leagues, as well as during spring training and at this year's All-Star Game, MLB forged ahead with a system that will give teams two challenges per game. Hitters, pitchers and catchers will be the only ones allowed to trigger the system by ta

Keep an Eye Out for a Newly Discovered Comet in October

No tricks, but skywatchers may be in for an October treat when a newly discovered comet passes through our skies. Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) — or SWAN25B for short — looks to be heading our way. The comet — named after the science instrument aboard the SOHO space observatory, which observes the sun — was first spotted on Sept. 11 by Ukrainian amateur astronomer Vladimir Bezugly, while studying images captured by SWAN. "This is a milestone, the 20th official SWAN comet so far," Bezugly told Univers

Apple TV+ indefinitely delays its domestic extremism thriller 'The Savant'

Apple has delayed the release of its new series The Savant just three days before it was supposed to premiere on September 26, Deadline reports. The series follows an investigator, played by Jessica Chastain, who infiltrates a domestic extremist group in the US. Apple hasn't provided a new release date for the show. "After careful consideration, we have made the decision to postpone The Savant," the company shared in a statement to Deadline. "We appreciate your understanding and look forward to

Boyd Gaming discloses data breach after suffering a cyberattack

US gaming and casino operator Boyd Gaming Corporation disclosed it suffered a breach after threat actors gained access to its systems and stole data, including employee information and data belonging to a limited number of other individuals. Boyd Gaming is a public US casino entertainment company with 28 gaming properties in ten states, including Nevada, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and the management of a tribal casino in northern C

From Rust to reality: The hidden journey of fetch_max

QuestDB is the open-source time-series database for demanding workloads—from trading floors to mission control It delivers ultra-low latency, high ingestion throughput, and a multi-tier storage engine. Native support for Parquet and SQL keeps your data portable, AI-ready—no vendor lock-in. I occasionally interview candidates for engineering roles. We need people who understand concurrent programming. One of our favorite questions involves keeping track of a maximum value across multiple produce

Tether reportedly seeks lofty $500 billion valuation in capital raise

Venezuelan Bolivar and U.S. Dollar banknotes and representations of cryptocurrency Tether are seen in this illustration taken Sept. 8, 2025. Tether, the issuer of the largest stablecoin, is planning to raise as much as $20 billion in a deal that could put the crypto company's value on par with OpenAI, according to a report from Bloomberg News. The crypto company is looking to raise between $15 billion and $20 billion in exchange for a roughly 3% stake through a private placement, the report sa

Roundtables: Meet the 2025 Innovator of the Year

Every year, MIT Technology Review selects one individual whose work we admire to recognize as Innovator of the Year. For 2025, we chose Sneha Goenka, who designed the computations behind the world’s fastest whole-genome sequencing method. Thanks to her work, physicians can now sequence a patient’s genome and diagnose a genetic condition in less than eight hours—an achievement that could transform medical care. Speakers: Sneha Goenka, Innovator of the Year; Leilani Battle, University of Washingt

Is life a form of computation?

Is Life a Form of Computation? Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same. Image source: Miguel Romero, Adobe Stock By: Blaise Agüera y Arcas A↑ A↓ Off Bright Dark Blues Gray BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. In 1994, a strange, pixelated machine came to life on a computer screen. It read a string of instructions, copied them, and built a clone of itself — just as the Hungari

From Rust to Reality: The Hidden Journey of Fetch_max

QuestDB is the open-source time-series database for demanding workloads—from trading floors to mission control It delivers ultra-low latency, high ingestion throughput, and a multi-tier storage engine. Native support for Parquet and SQL keeps your data portable, AI-ready—no vendor lock-in. I occasionally interview candidates for engineering roles. We need people who understand concurrent programming. One of our favorite questions involves keeping track of a maximum value across multiple produce

Makers of a New Motorized Office Chair With Bionic Spine Claim It'll Ease Your Back Pain

Office chairs come in a stunningly wide range of prices. There are only so many ways you can create or customize a chair. On the lower end, you have affordable options that many buy, like the standard AmazonBasics and no-name mesh chairs that "get the job done" for around $80. On the higher end, you have more ergonomic (and costly) options from Steelcase, Humanscale, and Herman Miller that top out in the thousands. While style plays a role, when you splurge on an office chair, it's usually bette

Micron beats on earnings as company sales rise 46% on AI boom

A person walks by a sign for Micron Technology headquarters in San Jose, California, on June 25, 2025. Micron reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue on Tuesday as well as a robust forecast for the current quarter. The stock rose in extended trading. Here's how the company did in comparison with the LSEG consensus: Earnings per share : $3.03, adjusted, vs. $2.86 expected : $3.03, adjusted, vs. $2.86 expected Revenue: $11.32 billion vs. $11.22 billion expected Micron said revenue

YouTube Will Let Users Booted for Violations of COVID, Elections Policies Rejoin

YouTube creators kicked off the platform for “repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies” will have an opportunity to “rejoin” in line with revised policies that allow “a wider range of content” on those subjects, its parent Alphabet told the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. Issued in response to committee subpoenas in February 2023 and March 2025, the letter from Alphabet’s law firm insists its commitment to free expression is “unwavering and will not bend to political

This New Motorized Office Chair With a Bionic Spine Claims It Can Ease Your Back Pain

Office chairs aren’t a particularly innovative market. There are only so many ways you can create or customize a chair. On the lower end, you have affordable options that many buy, like the standard AmazonBasics and no-name mesh chairs, and on the higher end you have more ergonomic and costly options from Steelcase, Humanscale and Herman Miller. The LiberNovo Omni is an ergonomic office chair from a newcomer to the market. The chair is designed for movement and real-time posture correction with

Trump’s Tylenol Directive Could Actually Increase Autism Rates, Researchers Warn

For decades, the discussion around autism has been a hotbed of misinformation, misinterpretation, and bad science, ranging from the long-discredited link between the neurodevelopmental condition and vaccines, to newer claims that going gluten-free and avoiding ultra-processed foods can reverse autistic traits. On Monday night, this specter arose again in the Oval Office, as President Donald Trump announced his administration’s new push to study the causes of autism with claims that the common p

Google Home is letting you get a lot more done without using the app

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Home’s web interface began previewing new device controls earlier this month. Today Google announces that Home’s device tab is ready for all of us to use. While you can turn many of your smart home devices on and off, not all options are accessible through the web. Google Home is having a moment. After a shaky summer of Home glitches that had some users clamoring for justice, over the past few weeks it’s felt like Google has finally started gi

YouTube may reinstate channels banned for spreading covid and election misinformation

Channels once banned by YouTube for spreading false information regarding the COVID-19 pandemic or the 2020 election may soon have the opportunity to get their channels back, in a decision transparently courting "conservative voices." Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, has sent a letter via counsel to the House Judiciary Committee in which it alleges the company was pressured by the Biden administration to take down misinformation on YouTube related to the COVID-19 pandemic tha

Microsoft claims a 'breakthrough' in AI chip cooling

AI is an enormous energy drain, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions at a time when the planet desperately needs progress in the opposite direction. Although most of that comes from running GPUs, cooling them is another significant overhead. So, it's worth noting when a company of Microsoft's stature claims to have achieved a breakthrough in chip cooling. Microsoft's new system is based on microfluidics, a method long pursued but hard to implement. The company claims its approach could lead

This Black Fungus Turns Plastic Waste Into Edible Ingredients

Fungi might just be the most impressive form of life on Earth. They can live almost anywhere, have both medicinal and poisonous qualities, and are—as new research suggests—capable of transforming industrial waste into useful compounds. Engineers with the German startup Biophelion have successfully developed a method to coax a yeast-like black fungus—Aureobasidium pullulans—into decomposing and converting plastic waste into new products. What’s more, during this process, the fungus consumes left

YouTube will restore channels banned for COVID and election misinformation

It's not exactly hard to find politically conservative content on YouTube, but the platform may soon skew even further to the right. YouTube parent Alphabet has confirmed that it will restore channels that were banned in recent years for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and elections. Alphabet says it values free expression and political debate, placing the blame for its previous moderation decisions on the Biden administration. Alphabet made this announcement via a lengthy letter to Rep

T-Mobile will rely on T Life for all transactions by 2026 as it embraces digital-first approach

Joe Maring / Android Authority T-Mobile's T-Life app. TL;DR A new leak suggests T-Mobile will push almost all major customer service actions into its T Life app by 2026. By November of this year, 92% of upgrades and 85% of new activations are expected to be app-based. The aggressive shift risks alienating both customers and employees if the app experience falls short. Just yesterday, we learned that T-Mobile’s current CEO will be stepping down in November, signaling a shift to an AI-centric,

I'm a browser expert and Vivaldi's new customizable tab bar is a game-changer

Screenshot by Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Vivaldi browser has a new release with many additions. You can fully customize the look and feel of the Tab Bar - and other bars. Vertical tab fans will especially appreciate the new options. I enjoy a good aesthetic. If you've followed me long enough, you totally get that. I will not cave to the ordinary. If you were to take a look at any given desktop (or laptop, or mobile d

Stan Lee Resuscitated for AI-Powered Hologram at Comic Con

Stan Lee, the great Marvel comic book impresario, died back in 2018 at the age of 95, but that’s not stopping ghouls from digging up his grave and propping up his corpse for profit — digitally, that is, in the form of a life-size AI avatar. If you attend the Los Angeles Comic Con between September 26 to 28, you’ll be able to pay $15 to $20 for a photo op or short conversation with an AI hologram of Lee, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Tech company Proto Hologram developed the hologram, wi