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Maria Diaz/ZDNETGet more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers.Remember The Clapper? The plug-in staple may have made for a catchy jingle in the 1980s, but it could also be considered as a primitive ancestor of today’s smart plug — that is, if you can say anything from a few decades ago is primitive. Smart plugs offer greater convenience than The Clapper ever did, letting you control your devices from an app on your phone, your voice, or a schedule.Also: Unplugging these 7 common household devices greatly reduced my electricity billThere are many…

August 19, 20254 min readThese Tiny Disks Will Sail on Sunlight into Earth’s Mysterious ‘Ignorosphere’With no fuel or engines, tiny explorers will surf sun-warmed air alone to explore high in the skies of Earth and MarsBy Payal Dhar edited by Lee BillingsThis artist’s impression shows multiple small devices soaring on sunlight at the edges of Earth’s atmosphere. Schafer et al. Nature (2025)Scientists have devised tiny featherweight disks that could float on sunlight in Earth’s mesosphere or the thin air of Mars, theoretically even while carrying payloads. Extending about 50 to 85 kilometers above Earth’s surface, the mesosphere is too high…

A shiny new stadium brings with it the hope of instigating a new chapter in a club’s history. Excitement abounds as something rundown is replaced with a state-of-the-art arena As Everton prepare for their first competitive game at the Hill Dickinson Stadium against Brighton on Sunday, we take a look at how other Premier League clubs got on in their domestic debuts at a new home.Sunderland 3-1 Manchester City, 15 August 1997The Stadium of Light was named in honour of the local coal-mining community and the Davy lamp used by miners. It was, therefore, suitable that the first match came…

This neighborhood guide is curated by one of our New York City-based editors who calls it home.I have long said that out-of-towners looking to explore the outer boroughs should head to Carroll Gardens. This, according to me, is the real Brooklyn: soulful with its old architecture; neighborhood-y and community-oriented; historical yet relevant. The streets are lined with protected Brownstones and shady trees; in winter, the same streets are dusted with snow, which creates a whole different type of charm. The two main commercial streets, Smith Street and Court Street are packed with designer restaurants and old-time bars, with high-end retail…

President Vladimir V. Putin’s demand that Ukraine cede the entirety of the Donbas region before Russia stops fighting has highlighted a central question of any negotiations: where to draw a border both sides could accept.But finding a solution will be fraught. President Volodymyr Zelensky flatly rejected Russia’s proposal, invoking Ukraine’s Constitution, which states that its territory is indivisible and inviolable. Source: Institute for the Study of War with American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project (extent of Russian-held areas) Note: As of Aug. 17, 2025 The New York Times Ukraine has long said that its goal is to restore the borders…

Jared Timmer of Sacramento Republic greets fans at Heart Health Park on May 21, 2024 in Sacramento, Calif.Getty Images There were two pieces of major stadium news made in the USL Championship last week, and both of them are critical for the league operator’s future. In Sacramento, builders actually put shovels in dirt to begin construction on a 12,000-seat, easily expandable facility for the Sacramento Republic, a club that was once given the green light to transition to MLS but then saw that move dissolve after key investor Ron Burkle pulled out of the deal. In Michigan, Detroit City FC…

As most people who have used adaptive cruise control in traffic can no doubt appreciate, the most common event that required intervention was a car ahead cutting into the driver’s lane. These occurred about once every 8.6 miles, or 24.4 minutes, with 90 percent requiring intervention by the driver. Inadequate lane centering was the next most common event, occurring once every 11.3 miles or 32.2 minutes. Seventy-two percent of those events also required intervention. Not resuming after coming to a halt happened 71 times, each of which required the driver to act. On 57 occasions, the lane keeping or adaptive…

Researchers say recently discovered teeth come from a previously undiscovered species of Australopithecus, adding to our understanding of human evolution. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Maybe you’ve seen the T-shirts or the mugs, the silhouette of an ape standing up straighter and straighter, finally morphing into a modern coffee-drinking man. Scientists have long known human evolution was not so straightforward. NPR’s Nate Rott reports on a new study that shows just how complicated it was.NATE ROTT, BYLINE: Kaye Reed was walking across some northeastern Ethiopian badlands with colleagues back in 2018 when they found the first tooth, a premolar.KAYE REED: And…

A giant solar tornado and a massive plasma eruption were just raging on the surface of the sun at the same time — and a researcher has captured both in one spectacular image.Although the solar events are unrelated, both are the result of disturbances in the sun’s invisible magnetic field, with some plasma forced into a tornado shape and some plasma released in a towering eruption known as an eruptive prominence.Maximilian Teodorescu, a researcher at the Institute of Space Science in Romania, captured both events happening simultaneously Wednesday (Aug. 20). He told Live Science that a large solar tornado is…

“Everything must change. All beautiful things come to an end,” the band wrote on Instagram Garbage‘s forthcoming U.S. tour may be the last time the rock band performs in “many of the cities.” The group shared a post on Instagram confirming that they are “going out in style.” “Yesterday saw the commencement of rehearsals for our last North American headline tour,” the band wrote. “We haven’t played an extensive headline tour like this one in the States for almost a decade. If the truth be told, it is unlikely we will play many of the cities on this tour ever…