The fourth-gen Echo Dot is on sale for just $19.99, which is a 50 percent discount. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Even with Amazon Prime Day going on, deals on inexpensive tech can be hard to come by. Nevertheless, they do exist, and some products are currently on sale on Amazon for…
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In consultation with Chief Judge Paul Michel, IPWatchdog is pleased to announce that Andrei Iancu, former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and current partner at Irell & Manella, has been selected as the 2022 recipient of The Paul Michel Award. He will be presented with the award on Sunday evening, September 11, 2022, at IPWatchdog…
The screen on Apple’s new MacBook Air. [credit: Samuel Axon ] According to a new blog post by the company, Apple will begin taking orders for its newly redesigned 13.6-inch MacBook Air on Friday, July 8, at 5 am PT. The laptop will arrive at buyers’ doorsteps and be available for same-day retail purchase a week…
Enlarge / Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin really knows how to fill out a hard hat. (credit: Yegor Aleyev / TASS via Getty Images) Rumors on Russian social media networks and in select publications are swirling that the bombastic director general of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, will soon lose his position. The Interfax news agency reports that…
Enlarge / If a star (red trail) wanders too close to a black hole (left), it can be shredded, or spaghetified, by the intense gravity. Some of the star’s matter swirls around the black hole, like water down a drain, emitting copious X-rays (blue). (credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss) When astronomers first observed a star that was…
Land-dwelling organisms are retreating by an average of 10 miles per decade. Christal Yuen on Unsplash The following is an excerpt from Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth by Benjamin von Brackel. Sydney, July 1998. Lesley Hughes was nervous as she stepped up to the…
Amanda Reed If summer days are best spent lounging by the pool, then summer nights are best spent relaxing in the hot tub. Inflatable hot tubs are easy to set up and lighter—in weight and on your wallet—than traditional hot tubs, which can weigh and cost into the thousands. Our best overall pick for the…
Mike Epstein I’m normally the gaming guy at Popular Science, but I also really like to cook. When big sales like Prime Day hit, I often wind up getting more excited about picking up new odds and ends for my kitchen than looking for tech. As always, there’s a wide, exciting lineup of cooking gear…
It has been a busy few months for Atomico, the European venture capital (VC) juggernaut founded by Skype co-creator Niklas Zennström some 16 years ago. After promoting three investors to partner back in April, it then brought in former Revolut and Uber executive Don Hoang as partner a month later. To cap off this frenzy,…
FPL Technologies, an Indian startup that offers credit cards to customers under the brand name OneCard, is the latest in the South Asian market to join the unicorn club following a new round of funding. Singapore’s Temasek, one of the world’s largest investors, led the Pune-headquartered startup’s Series D round, OneCard disclosed in a filing…