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The weekend’s best tech deals: Nintendo Switch Lite, MacBook Air, and more

Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) For this weekend edition of our Dealmaster deals roundup, we’ve got a nifty bundle for Nintendo’s Switch Lite and several deals on high-profile Switch games, joint-lowest prices on Apple’s M1-equipped MacBook Air and Mac Mini, and good prices on a few wireless headphones and portable SSDs. You can checkout our full […]

Our ancestors left Africa both with and without modern brains

Enlarge / One of the remarkably intact Dmanisi skulls at the time of its discovery. (credit: Guy Bar-Oz) We have an extensive collection of fossils from the lineages that produced us humans. A large number of Australopithecus and early Homo skeletons track the transition to bipedal walking and the appearance of features that mark our […]

Wi-Fi 6E arrives at CES 2021

Wi-Fi 6E is very slowly coming to a product near you. The Wi-Fi Alliance started certifying devices on January 7, and CES 2021 saw plenty of product announcements related to the Wi-Fi 6E rollout. Wi-Fi 6E, if you haven’t heard, is a new standard for Wi-Fi that was approved by the FCC last year. While […]