Every year, the Black Hat conference features the most startling security research. Here’s what’s keeping our PCMag reporters up at night. By Max Eddy Black Hat never fails to deliver exciting, enlightening, and distressing discussions about the state of cybersecurity. This is what we saw at Black Hat this year…

The bot can walk and carry things, as well as detect a range of human emotions. By Stephanie Mlot Move over, Tesla: Xiaomi this week unveiled its first humanoid robot, CyberOne. The newest member of Xiaomi’s Cyber series, which includes the quadruped Cyberdog, is fitted with “advanced” arms, legs, and…

The Galaxy Z Flip 4’s biggest advantage is invisible. The Fold 4 feels noticeably refined. By Sascha Segan Get ready to flip out. Samsung just announced its Galaxy Flip 4 and Fold 4 folding phones. They’re not a radical move for Samsung; the phones are an update to the successful…

Real-time deepfakes also run into trouble when the user puts a hand over their face. By Michael Kan The potential for deepfakes to scam users during video calls is rising. But one company is pointing out that the AI-powered technology has an easy-to-spot flaw: It struggles to render fake faces…

Bags of metal shavings, various tree seeds, and four Lego minifigs are among the items set to take flight on NASA’s first Artemis I launch attempt. By Stephanie Mlot While NASA’s first Artemis I launch attempt—scheduled for between Aug. 29 and Sept. 5—may be uncrewed, it won’t be unoccupied. The…

French scientist Étienne Klein tweeted the image as a joke and a cautionary tale about fake news, but it seems some people took him seriously. By Michael Kan Did you see a stunning image of Proxima Centauri taken by the James Webb Space Telescope online last week? Sorry, you’ve been…

In honor of George Jetson’s birthday, we take a look at all the current technologies Hanna-Barbera accurately anticipated when the show was created in 1962. By Francisco Lahoz When The Jetsons premiered in 1962, show writers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera imagined what the future might look like in 100…

Remember Jaz and Zip discs? Since the debut of the IBM PC, there have been many ways to store your data, and if you’re geeks like us, you care about this sort of thing. By Eric Griffith Since the dawn of computing, we’ve struggled with how to store all this…

It’s a new world for the differently abled thanks to software patches, but hardware needs to be designed from the beginning with accessibility in mind. By Christopher Reardon The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders reports that 15% (37.5 million) of Americans over the age of 18 have…