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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 …

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 …

Time is giving its celeb and entertainment-filled streaming service a new name. Launched last year as the blandly and cumbersome “People/Entertainment Weekly Network,” the newly rebranded service is now being called just “PeopleTV.” Though Entertainment Weekly’s brand has been dropped from the name, Time asserts that EW will still “contribute …

A new malware attack, dubbed BlueBorne, is spreading in the wild, thanks to a combination of eight different vulnerabilities affecting Android, iOS, IoT devices, Windows, and Linux. The security research firm Armis writes: BlueBorne allows attackers to take control of devices, access corporate data and networks, penetrate secure “air-gapped” networks, …

Google launched the Pixel and Pixel XL last year on October 4th, and exactly one year later we’re probably getting a look at the Pixel 2. Google has debuted an ad campaign for an event on October 4th, where it promises to unveil a smarter smartphone. That couldn’t get any …

At Apple’s unveil event for the iPhone X and iPhone 8 this week, the company announced the A11 Bionic, an SoC with a six-core CPU, Apple’s first custom GPU, and what the company is calling a Neural Engine. Apple isn’t really talking much about the hardware, beyond saying this: The …