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We may be a bit technology-obsessed here, but the Engadget team does occasionally get around to low-tech activities, like reading. Well, some of us read on ereaders or our smartphones, but you get the point — books are great, and we read some exceptional ones this year that each deserve a shoutout. These are some

Sölden Defending overall and giant slalom champion Marco Odermatt went out the gates first in the opening race of the season at Solden but he crashed out after a mistake in a dramatic shock, blowing the race wide open. Watch Alpine Skiing live on TNT Sports and discovery+

Sölden Watch the final skier of Run 2 at Solden, Mikaela Shiffrin go down the course but only be quick enough to finish fifth in a huge surprise. Her failure to podium meant that Julia Scheib scored her maiden podium on what is her home race. Watch the Alpine Skiing live on TNT Sports and

Bill Gates Photo: Gates Ventures Bill Gates shared a list of the four books he “enjoyed” reading this year, including ones focused on artificial intelligence and love. Although Gates said it was not intentional, the four books shared the common theme of “making sense of the world around you,” the billionaire said on his personal

One detail that's often omitted from modern founders myths is whether or not said scion of capitalist success actually invented the thing they're famous for inventing. Just like Elon Musk didn't invent electric vehicles so much as be the first to successfully market them to the American public, Thomas Edison's contributions to the advent of

It's never been about safety as much as it has control, serving and protecting only to the benefit of the status quo. Clearview AI, PredPol, Shotspotter, they're all Carolyn Bryant Donham's testimony behind a veneer of technological validity — a shiny black box to dazzle the masses while giving the police yet another excuse to

In the years leading up to, and through, World War II, animal behaviorist researchers thoroughly embraced motion picture technology as a means to better capture the daily experiences of their test subjects — whether exploring the nuances of contemporary chimpanzee society or running macabre rat-eat-rat survival experiments to determine the Earth's "carrying capacity." However, once

There is too much internet and our attempts to keep up with the breakneck pace of, well, everything these days — it is breaking our brains. Parsing through the deluge of inundating information hoisted up by algorithmic systems built to maximize engagement has trained us as slavering Pavlovian dogs to rely on snap judgements and