Sometimes a clever hack of an off-the-shelf product can come courtesy of its dismantling and hardware modification, but at other times the most elegant of hacks can be made without ever turning a screwdriver. [Brian Lough] was given the request by a friend to replicate a commercial child’s night light that changed colour with temperature,…

The secret memory trick you’ve been doing all along. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: A Russian law has taken effect that, in theory, would allow the Russian government to cut off the country’s Internet from the rest of the world. The “sovereign Internet law,” as the government calls it, greatly enhances the Kremlin’s control over the Web. It was passed earlier…

The search giant has faced blowback for its health care projects in the past. …read more Source:: CNet

Here’s a look at our most important stories of the week ending Nov. 2. …read more Source:: CNet

Commentary: These are the most groundbreaking smart home products of the 2010s. …read more Source:: CNet

How Apple TV Plus puts the gadget giant in an unfamiliar underdog role, what last year’s Google walkout did for tech industry activism, and is Facebook actually censoring conservatives? …read more Source:: CNet

Both iPhones have superb cameras. But we test whether an ultrawide-angle camera, Night Mode and Deep Fusion processing make the iPhone 11 worth $100 more than last year’s iPhone XR. …read more Source:: CNet

Both running on Intel’s 10th-gen processors, these are two of the best premium ultraportables available. Here’s how to choose between them. …read more Source:: CNet

It’s one of the rituals of our age, rebooting the family router when the bandwidth falters. Flip the power, and after half a minute or so your YouTube video starts up again. Consumer-grade router hardware is not the most reliable computing equipment you will own, as [Nick Sayer] found out when the router at his…