NASA’s technology could be a game-changer for the EV industry, eliminating one of its main obstacles to adoption – that five-minute charge would put charging EVs on a par with the time it takes to fill the tank of a petrol-powered car. The answer to five-minute charging could be found in the “Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE)”, a project NASA’s Biological and Physical Sciences Division is sponsoring Purdue University to develop and focuses on coolants in the charging cable between the EV’s inlet and the battery....

The new reality of mobile and remote work has spawned an influx of products created to enhance productivity whether we’ve returned to the office, are permanently working from home, or constantly need to move between both realities. Also: This flip-out portable monitor is my productivity secret weapon One of the most important tools in adapting to life spread between multiple workstations is a dock for your laptop. These handy devices take the task of plugging in five or six cables every morning and replace it with a single plug....

The full-color Dynamic Effects smart light strip has become as much a part of my home office as my desk – and I mean that almost literally. The light strip lines the back of a small desk where I edit my videos and it’s become part of my backdrop in YouTube videos for ZDNET. Also: We found the best strip lights (and yes, Philips Hue tops the list) Why add LED light strips to your home I haven’t met anyone who hates color-changing lights....

Here are five products that stood out to Jason Cipriani and me this year. Jason Perlow: The speed of Wi-Fi 6, which is also referred to as 802.11ax, is not the only significant advancement of the new high-speed wireless networking standard. It’s also security, in the form of WPA3, which is a requirement of all Wi-Fi 6 equipment when they are certified. WPA3 is a major improvement over WPA2 in current routers because it uses a new authentication mechanism, known as SAE or Simultaneous Authentication of Equals to replace the PSK or Pre-Shared-Key in WPA2, which is a much more secure key exchange method....

AppleCare+ has until now only allowed for two repairs caused by accidental damage within a year, but now has changed the terms to “unlimited” repairs of accidental damage. The change, spotted by MacRumors, is advertised on Apple’s AppleCare+ page for the iPhone. SEE: iPhone 14 Pro vs. iPhone 13 Pro: Is the newest iPhone worth the upgrade? “AppleCare+ for iPhone includes unlimited incidents of accidental damage protection. Each incident is subject to the service fees listed below, plus applicable tax....

The chip was built with Nvidia’s Jetson edge AI platform and the Nvidia AI Enterprise software suite, and it’s embedded in smart meters. Nvidial’s technology will help Utilidata regularly and quickly deploy new algorithms to existing algorithms on the smart meters, at scale, while minimizing downtime. This kind of power grid management will become increasingly important as more renewable energy sources and distributed energy resources (DERs) come online. DERs refers to a range of technologies – close to end users – that can store or generate energy, like solar panels and electric vehicles....

According to Dominello, the new digital service was created as around 16% of registrations in the state were not renewed on time due to paperwork being damaged and misplaced. The digital service will operate by allowing vehicle owners to opt into receiving electronic reminders about renewing their registration. It will also allow vehicle owners to access a digital copy of their registration. The service will be available through a MyServiceNSW account....

No, he’s surely not the first, nor the last. He’s also not the first nor the last to have had a similar contretemps with any of the remaining phone carriers. I feel, however, that Kevin’s solution to his customer service problem was markedly more ingenious than most could create. Kevin is a long-time friend. A highly intelligent, deeply nerdy and, once in a while, gregariously opinionated friend. He was going on vacation and he’d heard that AT&T’s signal was poor at his remote east coast destination....

Let’s dive deeper. I made a video I have a personal YouTube channel that’s pretty popular. I try to put a new video up every month or so. They’re usually deep-dive how-to videos showing lots of detail about whatever project I’m working on. Also: How to download YouTube videos three ways To make viewing some of the more tedious steps less tedious, I very carefully choose accompanying music. Now, let’s be clear....

Exactly what the scammer wants can vary wildly between attacks. It might be handing over passwords to make it easier to hack a company or person, or sending payments to fraudsters instead of the correct account. This information is often stolen by making requests that look entirely legitimate – like an email from your boss, so you don’t think twice about doing what is asked. Also: The best VPN services right now A successful phishing attack is one that can provide everything fraudsters need to ransack information from their targets’ personal and work accounts, including usernames, passwords, financial information, and other sensitive data....

And then there are the people I’m writing this article for: the folks for whom VPN usage is a life-or-death thing. These people are citizens in nations with oppressive regimes trying to communicate with the outside world, people who are researching health or sexuality information that could cause them to be discriminated against (or worse), people who are trying to hide their location from abusive partners or stalkers, people who are dissidents (which is not a pejorative, but a word used to describe people who are fighting totalitarian regimes and oppressive government policies), and so on....

Most of those tech support calls are easy. If they’re having trouble with a task, you walk them through the steps, maybe even writing up a cheat sheet for them to print and keep handy. If they’re having hardware problems, you do basic troubleshooting (“Have you tried turning it off and back on again?”) and that usually works. But every once in a while you get one of those calls, where the problems don’t have an easy fix....

The debate saw familiar arguments used for and against the proposal: Crypto is an environmental disaster, reputational risk from being seen to approve of ecological destruction and endorsing the crypto community; against claims that proof of stake would fix the environmental concerns and fiat money isn’t completely green either, and crypto is safer for anonymous use. During the debate, the foundation said in its prior fiscal year, cryptocurrency made up only 0....

The Windows 11 2022 Update launched with system-wide live captions, which generated live captions from any audio content – but this feature only supported US English. Live captures technically arrived as an accessibility feature, alongside voice access for controlling a PC and text dictation, and natural voices for Narrator. But live captions can be a useful tool for anyone working from a noisy café. Also: More powerful than ChatGPT’: Microsoft unveils new AI-improved Bing and Edge browser The latest Windows 11 preview in the Dev Channel, build 25300, adds Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, and other English dialects....

The new screen-recording function is rolling out to some Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel, but will reach more insiders before eventually hitting Windows 11 for mainstream users. The updated version of the Snipping Tool app with the screen recorder is version 11.2211.35.0. Snipping Tool is one of Microsoft’s ‘inbox’ apps – apps that generally ship with Windows 11, such as Calculator and the Mail and Calendar app. The screen-recording button with its own video camera icon sits next to the original Snip button, which has a camera icon....

The good news is that this upgrade won’t be a mandatory feature update, as it was for millions of Microsoft customers for the first several years of the Windows 10 era. Instead, the unique circumstances of the Windows 11 launch, most notably its strict minimum hardware requirements, raise a handful of new questions that anyone contemplating this upgrade needs to answer before proceeding with the update. Let’s go through them together....

Windows 10 came as a relief to PC users frustrated by the split personality of Windows 8 that, on the one hand, abandoned longtime conventions in pursuit of an experience that could straddle tablet PCs and phones and, on the other hand, all but froze the features of the desktop interface that people actually used. While Windows 10 struck a middle ground that all but killed the full-screen “Metro” experience, users have still had to deal with an interface that has tried to move forward some of the touch-friendlier elements of Windows 8 but which has left behind large swaths of the interface....

A survey by Stack Overflow found that 90% of developers believe it’s important for them to be happy at work. With as many as three-quarters of developers either actively looking for a new job or open to new opportunities, employers should take note of what keeps their software teams sweet – particularly as competition in the hiring market becomes more ferocious. The key takeaway? Money isn’t everything – but it certainly helps....

The Chinese smartphone maker trailed Samsung, which remained in the number one spot with 19% market share. Meanwhile, Apple was bumped down to third, after experiencing only 1% growth during the quarter, the Canalys report showed. Meanwhile, Oppo and Vivo each hold 10% share and grew 28% and 27%, respectively. In a letter to employees, Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun described claiming the world number two title as a “major victory” to the company’s strategy....

They tell you not to eat them. Some might tell you that they’re dangerous. But these little packets of silica gel, also known as desiccant, might save the life of your tech. I was reminded of this by a post by my ZDNet tech colleague David Gewirtz, who recently had the misfortune of dunking his AirPods Pro into his morning brew. He took a few silica gel packets, threw them into an airtight box with his dunked AirPods, and left them there for a day....