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Reddit has filed a lawsuit in Australia’s High Court aiming to overturn the country’s under-16 social media ban, Reuters reported. The forum platform called the law contrary to Australia’s constitution as it intrudes on free political discourse. It also argued that Reddit shouldn’t have been included in the ban since it isn’t a social media site, based on the law’s definition. The action is likely to set in motion a protracted legal battle, given Reddit’s resources and its popularity in AustraliaAustralia’s minimum age social media ban, the first of its kind in the world, went into effect on December 10.…

China’s “Great Green Wall” is a huge ecological engineering project to slow the expansion of the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts in the country’s north.Since 1978, China has planted more than 66 billion trees along its borders with Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan — and Chinese authorities plan to plant 34 billion more over the next 25 years. If they succeed, the Great Green Wall will increase Earth’s forest cover by 10% since the late 1970s.The Great Green Wall, formally known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program, is designed to slow soil erosion and sand deposition that has been increasing since the…

Transparency is so good, I’m really bummed that it doesn’t work when on a call. If it did, these cans would be great for long calls and meetings. The mics are remarkably adept at keeping background noise invisible to callers. When those noises were particularly loud, my voice faded somewhat, but only the high-pitched wail of a siren managed to pierce through. When my environment was quieter, the XH1 kept my voice more stable and clear than the Soundcore Space One Pro ($200).Daily DriversI’m not sure there’s any consensus on how much battery life is “enough” for a set of…

Raise your hand if you’re one of those people with a too-large box or bin full of wall chargers of all shapes and sizes, 90 percent of which you haven’t used in years. It’s OK, that’s pretty much everybody these days, since any new smart device or laptop comes with one, so they accumulate. For the most part, they’re underpowered, undercompatible, and overall underperforming, which is why they live in that box, collecting dust. One Anker Laptop Charger — a 140W monster with one USB-A and three USB-C ports and an LED screen that shows power output, port-specific details, and…

F1: The Movie, the cinematic love letter to Formula One and — quite possibly even more so — consumer products made by Apple, is finally available to on Apple TV if you’re a subscriber. It follows the sports thriller’s long theatrical run, during which it raked in more than $630 million globally, comfortably making it Apple’s most successful original film.Directed by Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick, Tron: Legacy), F1: The Movie follows the washed-up former F1 prodigy Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), who is convinced by an old friend (Javier Bardem) to get back in the driver’s seat and help rescue…

Running out of space on your phone? Don’t upgrade your cloud-storage subscription just yet. Scientists in China have discovered that images, text files and other digital data can be stored in strands of DNA fused to a 330-foot-long (100 meters) plastic strip capable of holding the equivalent of 3 billion songs.It’s a far cry from a device that Microsoft built in 2016, which managed to squeeze 200 megabytes of data into a dab of DNA “much smaller than the tip of a pencil.”The new “tape” can even be fed into a cassette-player-like reader that can scan the strip, pinpoint a…

We are talking about $80 (or more) T-shirts here, so this is valid question. I think merino T-shirts are worth the investment. They offer considerable benefits over cotton and other natural fibers, as well as synthetics. Merino offers great temperature regulation, excellent moisture wicking, and they don’t smell, which means you can wear them more and don’t need as many of them. Three merino T-shirts in your wardrobe will last you as many days as 10 cotton shirts, so from a financial angle it’s a wash.Here’s a quick rundown of some of the benefits of merino wool:Odor-resistant: One of merino…

If you want to learn a new skill in the new year or brush up on some skills you already have, MasterClass could be a good option for you. It’s even more accessible now that the company is running a holiday promotion that knocks 40 percent off subscriptions. For the top-tier Premium plan, which includes offline mode and use on up to six devices, you’ll pay $144 for the year instead of the usual $240. The entry-level plan, which supports just one device and doesn’t offer offline viewing, is marked down to $72 from $120.MasterClassOver the past few years, MasterClass…

The homestretch of the 2025 holiday shopping season is going to be full of surprises, flash deals, and more as manufacturers pull out all the stops to hit their year-end numbers. That’s good news for shoppers, as anyone on the hunt for a great new smartwatch will see when they notice this Amazon deal on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic. One of the best new wearables of 2025, the big 46mm model of the Galaxy Watch 8 Classic is at its all-time low price right now, just $400. Amazon’s red-flagged this 20%-off deal with a big “selling fast” sign,…

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a glittering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 (Mrk 178). The galaxy, which is substantially smaller than our own Milky Way, lies 13 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear). Mrk 178 is one of more than 1,500 Markarian galaxies. These galaxies get their name from the Armenian astrophysicist Benjamin Markarian, who compiled a list of galaxies that were surprisingly bright in ultraviolet light. While the bulk of the galaxy is blue due to an abundance of young, hot stars with little dust shrouding them, Mrk 178 gets a…