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ChargerLAB Power-Z AK001 USB-C cable with power meter. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET If you’re a professional repair technician, then having one or more USB power meters in your toolkit is essential. These devices are invaluable as they provide a quick and efficient means of diagnosing issues.  A USB power meter can instantly read voltage and amperage, what power protocols are being used, and much more, helping technicians pinpoint power-related problems with various devices. This capability makes them…

Getty Images/Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library Slowly but surely, Starlink is growing into a leading broadband internet alternative. Its network of low Earth orbit satellites ensures its users high-speed internet access, even in areas where traditional infrastructure such as cell towers can’t reach. Now, that technology can provide service to your mobile device.  On Monday, T-Mobile opened registration for a T-Mobile Starlink beta program that aims to eliminate dead zones by leveraging Starlink’s 300 direct‑to‑cell satellites…

Screenshot by Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET OpenAI upped the ante in the video generation space earlier this month, making Sora — its state-of-the-art text-to-video generator model — available to ChatGPT Plus users with Sora Turbo. Now, Google is gearing up to compete with the launch of its most advanced video generator.  On Monday, Google launched Veo 2, a text-to-video generator that boasts improvements from the company’s previous model, including a better understanding of real-world physics, which helps the AI…

Google’s Willow quantum computing chip has 105 physical qubits crafted from superconducting “transmons,” a technique pioneered in 2007 at Yale University. Google Google’s quantum computing scientists this month demonstrated breakthroughs in the field that reinforce the sense that quantum computing is for real and will be able to find its place among other kinds of computers as a valuable resource.  But much remains to be done: Google’s latest quantum chip — called Willow and fabricated…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The LTV-3500 Pro projector is available now from the official AWOL site for $6,000. The LTV-3500 Pro projector creates some of the clearest images of any projector I’ve used, and the screen is remarkable, even with too much ambient light. The AWOL package is far too expensive for most family budgets. Let’s face it: I dig video and audio. Any chance I can try a new piece of technology, I’ll jump at…