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Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey emailed employees on Tuesday telling them that they’d be allowed to work from home permanently, even after the coronavirus pandemic lockdown passes. Some jobs that require physical presence, such as maintaining servers, will still require employees to come in…


Blind People ‘Read’ Letters Traced on Their Brains With Electricity

Blind people could ‘see’ letters after a precise pattern of electrical pulses was delivered to a part of their brains involved in visual processing…


Balmuda’s $329 Steam-Based Toaster Finally Arrives in the US

Just how much do you value your toast in the morning? Enough that you’d pay top dollar to have a near-ideal texture every time? You now have a chance to prove your commitment. Japanese brand Balmuda has released its fabled The Toaster in the US, making its one-of-a-kind steam tech available on this side of the Pacific without extraordinary efforts. It costs a staggering $329 on the company website (and soon on Amazon and Williams Sonoma), but there’s a reason for that — it’s a significant step up from a pop-up toaster…


Dell Launches New XPS 17 and Redesigned XPS 15 With 16:10 Edge-to-Edge Displays

Dell is making some big changes to its XPS lineup today, with a redesigned XPS 15 and a new XPS 17. The design updates see Dell ditching legacy ports in favor of USB-C and 16:10 displays across its main XPS laptops…


Google Pixel 4a Rumor Puts 128GB Model at $349

What would be a good way for Google to finally drop the Pixel 4a on us and steal back some of the spotlight from Apple’s new iPhone SE? Pricing below the SE and going nuts on the storage might help…


Exclusive: AirPods Studio to Feature Head and Neck Detection, Custom Equalizer Settings, More

We’ve been hearing about Apple’s upcoming over-ear headphones for some time, with evidence from multiple sources pointing to the official launch later this year. And now 9to5Mac has learned more exclusive details about the “AirPods Studio”, including specifications and settings, according to people familiar with the matter…


Google’s Chrome Browser to Block Battery-Draining, Data-Guzzling Ads

Google is working to make the Chrome browser shut down ads that drain your device’s battery life or needlessly consume your internet’s bandwidth…