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Our slow-moving queue curves around a two-story wooden boathouse filled with props from explorations through distant lands. At the front of the line, a Disney cast member dressed in khaki helps us step onto a quaint little boat for a tour around the jungle.This is Disneyland’s world-famous Jungle Cruise, filled with animatronic animals and painful puns from your skipper, and old-world set pieces depicting scenes straight out of the Amazon, Congo, Mekong and Nile rivers. It’s a ride that Walt Disney himself had a hand in developing, but something new is coming that separates it from its 1950s origins: a…

China details microwave weapon designed to disable drone swarms beyond 3kmHurricane 3000 uses high power microwaves to fry drone electronicsSystem is intended as part of China’s layered air defense strategyChina has revealed new details about a high power microwave weapon it says can disable drone swarms at distances beyond those claimed by comparable US systems.The truck mounted system, known as the Hurricane 3000, is designed to destroy or shut down drones by frying onboard electronics with focused microwave energy.Its developer, state owned defense contractor Norinco, said the weapon has an effective interception range of more than 3km against light and…

Following the first Wi-Fi 8 solutions unveiled in October 2025, Broadcom today announced additional chips at CES 2026, painting a more complete picture of the upcoming standard. These include an Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) and two dual-band chips. As it turns out, like Wi-Fi 7, Wi-Fi 8 will continue the sensible trend of not including the 6GHz frequency in certain applications. Broadcom’s new BCM4918 APU, BCM6714, and BCM6719 Wi-Fi 8 chips. Broadcom’s Wi-Fi 8: Next-Gen APU and dual-band devices Broadcom’s new Wi-Fi 8 hardware includes three components. Apart from the BCM4918 APU, which is a processor, there are the BCM6714…

TSMC posted net income of NT$505.7 billion (about $16 billion) for the quarter, up 35 percent year over year and above analyst expectations. Revenue hit $33.7 billion, a 25.5 percent increase from the same period last year. The company expects nearly 30 percent revenue growth in 2026 and plans to spend between $52 billion and $56 billion on capital expenditures this year, up from $40.9 billion in 2025. Checking with the customers’ customers Wei’s optimism stands in contrast to months of speculation about whether the AI industry is in a bubble. In November, Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned of “irrationality”…

Verizon is offering a very small mea culpa after Wednesday’s massive outage, which drew more than 1.5 million reports on Downdetector and lasted hours. Initially, the carrier posted on X that it will offer a $20 credit, but customers must redeem it in the myVerizon app. The company then said the credit could be claimed though customer service (via phone or chat), but our editors’ attempts to do so via chat were met with a message to wait for a text with further instructions.Engadget editors began receiving the texts this morning (Jan 16) with a link to redeem. From there,…

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? I thought it was exceptionally tough today, and was convinced 1-Across was “MAD” Max. (Spoiler, it’s not.) I also figured 1-Down was BOOZE, which did not work with 1-Across, and was wrong either way. Read on for all the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.If you’re looking for…

As if things couldn’t get any worse for Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton) in Landman season 2, he’s suddenly been fired by Cami (Demi Moore) after butting heads over the offshore drilling project.Cooper (Jacob Lofland) might face jail face after beating up the guy who tried to sexually assault Ariana (Paulina Chavez), and Ainsley (Michelle Randolph) is kicking off at university after taking a dislike to her roommates. Another day in the life, then.As our season finale, Landman season 2 episode 10 is sure to bring some explosive head ahead of the already-confirmed third season. But when does it arrive on…

Wi-Fi has become so popular that, nowadays, obtaining a router without it—a non-Wi-Fi router—can be a challenge. Yet such a router is the best way to start when building a robust network, including one with the optimal Wi-Fi coverage. In fact, now that Wi-Fi 8 is on the horizon, getting a non-Wi-Fi router today is the sure way to avoid being left “behind”. This post explains how non-Wi-Fi routers are the sensible way to build a robust Wi-Fi network, and includes the five best standard routers without built-in Wi-Fi that I’ve tested and used in real-world applications. Let’s dig in! Dong’s note:…

The cost of “free” knowledge The push for paid licensing follows years of rising infrastructure costs as AI companies scraped Wikipedia content at an industrial scale. In April 2025, the foundation reported that bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content had grown 50 percent since January 2024, with bots accounting for 65 percent of the most expensive requests to core infrastructure despite making up just 35 percent of total pageviews. By October, the Wikimedia Foundation disclosed that human traffic to Wikipedia had fallen approximately 8 percent year over year after the organization updated its bot-detection systems and discovered that much of…

Verizon’s network is experiencing technical issues that are impacting calls and wireless data. Verizon customers on X have reported seeing “SOS” rather than the traditional network bars on their smartphones, and even the network provider’s own status page struggled to load, likely due to the number of customers trying to access it.Based on the experience of Verizon users on Engadget’s staff, the services that are impacted appear to be calls and wireless data. Text messages continue to be delivered normally, at least for some users. On DownDetector, reports of a Verizon outage started growing around 12PM ET and numbered in…