Consumer Tech

An iphone is shown with a green circle indicating it is charging.

Should you charge your phone overnight? Will “overcharging” make it explode?

Does prolonged (or overnight) charging wreak havoc on your phone battery? An expert answers this and other common battery questions.

Ritesh Chugh

A picture of mycelium, a fiber derived from mushrooms, and a machine stretching mycelium into a vegan leather alternative.

Series| Hard Reset Podcast

Hard Reset Podcast: Leather | Episode #7

37:09

There’s a new leather substitute, but instead of being made from flimsy plastic, it’s derived from mushrooms.

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Big Tech

Apple Vision Pro wasn’t the only major announcement at WWDC23

On Day 1 of WWDC23, Apple announced three new Macs, several new operating systems, and the world’s most powerful personal computer chip.

Kristin Houser

Series| Challengers

This DIY laptop is challenging tech giants like Apple & Microsoft

6:01

Disposable tech is part of big tech’s business model. This engineer is fighting back by creating a DIY laptop anyone can repair on their own.

Freethink Team

Food

Scientists make sustainable coffee from lab-grown cells

Finnish researchers are making sustainable coffee in the lab to combat the negative environmental effects of coffee production.

Kristin Houser

Food

Cultured meat is now being mass-produced In Israel

Israeli startup Future Meat Technologies’ industrial-scale cultured meat production facility is designed to get lab-grown meat onto consumers’ plates ASAP.

Kristin Houser

3D Printing

Startup turns sawdust “ink” into 3D printed wood

Massachusetts startup Forust can make 3D printed wood with a natural-looking grain out of two wood waste products: sawdust and lignin.

Kristin Houser

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