In addition, doctors, nurses, first responders and military can save 20%, while federal employees might be able to get Eargo for free. …read more Source:: CNet

For something that’s basically a coil of wire around some magnetic pole pieces, an electric guitar pickup is a complicated bit of tech. So much about the tone of the instrument is dictated by how the pickup is wound that controlling the winding process is something best accomplished with a machine. This automatic pickup winder…

The PlayStation 5 is out of stock everywhere right now, but that won’t last forever. Check here for info on inventory at retailers like Best Buy, eBay, GameStop, Walmart and Amazon. …read more Source:: CNet

Slashdot reader Hmmmmmm shared this report from Reuters: AstraZeneca is to start clinical trials to test a combination of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine with Russia’s Sputnik V shot to see if this can boost the efficacy of the British drugmaker’s vaccine, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund said on Friday. Trials will start by the end of…

Can’t afford the $549 AirPods Max? The AirPods Pro are just $199 right now, and the standard Airpods with a wired charging case are down to $110. …read more Source:: CNet

Long-time Slashdot reader BoredStiff writes: An energy Sankey diagram [where the width of arrows is proportional to flow rates] was published today by the University of Chicago, and shows the history of the American energy system in chart form, from 1800 to 2019. The Atlantic explains: It is the first attempt to put so much…

“Cloudflare, Apple, and Fastly have co-designed and proposed a new DNS standard to tackle ongoing privacy issues associated with DNS,” reports ZDNet. Cloudflare calls it “a practical approach for improving privacy” that “aims to improve the overall adoption of encrypted DNS protocols without compromising performance and user experience…” Third-parties, such as ISPs, find it more…

There’s a good chance you already saw SpaceX’s towering Starship prototype make its impressive twelve kilometer test flight. While the attempt ended with a spectacular fireball, it was still a phenomenal success as it demonstrated a number of concepts that to this point had never been attempted in the real world. Most importantly, the “Belly…

Cord-cutters can stream games live from CBS, Fox, NBC and NFL RedZone this Sunday. Here’s how. …read more Source:: CNet

CNET reports: With the next version of Chrome, Google is moving ahead with a plan to improve privacy and security by reining in some abilities of extensions used to customize the browser. The move had angered some developers who expected earlier it would cripple ad blockers. Manifest v3, the programming interface behind Google’s security plans,…