In a nutshell: Google has introduced a new personal tracker designed to compete directly with Apple's AirTag. The Pixel Tag leverages Google's Find Hub network to help find lost devices, much like Apple's tracker users its vast network of iPhones for blanket coverage.

The Pixel Tag is compatible with devices running Android 9 or newer. To pair, simply remove the battery pull tab, position the Pixel Tag near

Removing vocals from a song used to be the sort of job that required audio expertise, specialist software, and a lot of patience. For those of us who aren't professional sound technicians, separating a finished track into individual parts can be more than frustrating.

Thankfully, there are new tools that make the process a lot simpler than you can imagine. Enter LALAL

Looking ahead: Sunlight has been used to generate entangled photon pairs, offering an early look at how quantum technology could reduce its reliance on power-intensive lasers. Researchers at the University of Ottawa and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany, used focused sunlight to produce entangled photons, which are essential to many photonic quantum computing and quantum communications systems.

The research, which was published in Optica

What we know so far: A bill pending before the New York City Council could make the Big Apple the first US city to regulate the last-mile operations of e-commerce and logistics giants, such as Amazon and FedEx. Supported by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the bill aims to mandate that businesses with door-to-door operations must directly employ their delivery personnel rather than outsourcing the job to third-party contractors

In brief: The Steam Machine's software is fully customizable, allowing users to install non-Steam apps and even different operating systems. However, the living-room PC's locked-down hardware is far from high-end, an issue some users have addressed with ambitious modifications.

Two recent modding projects aim to substantially boost the Steam Machine's performance. One modder discovered a roundabout method of adding external

Winners & losers: The problem of students using AI to cheat in schools is well documented, but Fei-Fei Li, aka The Godmother of AI, thinks there's a bigger risk. The Stanford computer science professor believes access to the technology will take away students' motivation and agency to learn. Nevertheless, Li doesn't believe a blanket ban is a good idea.

Speaking on an episode of the science

The takeaway: Chrome is beginning to use hardware-backed cryptographic keys to make stolen browser cookies harder to use. The feature, called device-bound session credentials, links an authenticated web session to the device where the user signed in.

The change targets a common method of account takeover. Attackers who obtain a browser session cookie can sometimes load it into another browser and gain access to an account without entering the victim'

In context: Seeing AMD brag about its continued dominance of CPU sales charts is unsurprising. However, a recent social media post from the company also reveals the effects of the RAMpocalypse when observers pay close attention to which AMD CPUs are selling the most.

AMD's senior marketing director, Sasa Marinkovic, recently shared a snapshot of the 30 top-selling CPUs on Amazon. The company occupied all but four spots,

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What just happened? If you've ever been dazzled by the headlights of some Tesla vehicles and wondered why they're so bright, here's the reason: The EV giant is recalling over 20,000 vehicles with low-beam headlights exceeding the maximum legal limit – in some cases, the lights were twice as bright as allowed. It's an issue that