Update (9:30 PM, 9/15/2017):  According to an HP spokesperson, this feature has not been reactivated. The statement provided to ET reads: “Earlier this week a media outlet in Europe inaccurately reported that HP issued a new firmware update designed to prevent the use of third party cartridges. No such firmware …

Equifax reported last week a leak on July 29 that compromised the data of 143 million Americans. This breach included Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver license numbers. As though that weren’t bad enough, 209,000 people had their credit card info leaked, and the breach also …

If you’re looking for a versatile and easy way to decorate your front door, a beautiful fall wreath can offer a quick fix. Whether you live on sprawling property or in a smaller home, a decorative wreath is the easiest way to adorn the outside of your space. Try drawing …

In the admittedly futuristic discipline of simulated artificial life form, or animat, research, BabyX is perhaps the most ambitious project to date. Its creator, Mark Sagar, has chosen no less a goal than simulating the neural machinery of an infant human in silico. A milestone that many pundits had predicted …

The full-sized keyboard most people are familiar with has around 104 keys, but mechanical keyboard enthusiasts have been trimming that number down to make boards more compact and efficient. There are tenkeyless boards, 60% boards, and some that are even smaller. One of those “even smaller” mechanical keyboards is the …

Last year, HP pushed a stealth firmware update that started killing printers that used ink sold by third-party vendors. The company took considerable fire for the move, particularly since it had distributed the lockout as an invisible trigger in a previous firmware update. Roughly six months after the last firmware …

Last week, a massive hack of the credit bureau Equifax stole critical personally identifiable information (PII) on 143 million US citizens. The company’s response to the incident has been strongly criticized, and now we know the incompetence isn’t limited to the customer-facing sections of the company. The flaws that allowed …

There are plenty of annoying things on the internet, but even the best content can be marred by autoplaying video. It’s not so much the video, but the sound from the video that is truly aggravating. Next year, you may never again have to hunt through your Chrome tabs in …

While many of us were stuck sitting behind a school bus in rush-hour traffic this morning, far away from us a much higher-speed spectacle took place. After thirteen years of sometimes bootstrapped and often surprising science, Cassini has reached the end of its mission, and NASA deorbited it into Saturn …

More than three and a half billion miles away, NASA’s New Horizons probe has woken up from its long slumber, ready to take on a new mission in the outer reaches of the solar system. New Horizons was launched with the intention of studying Pluto up close for the first …