Last Friday, for the first time in my adult life, I bought a new phone before the current phone had a chance to drown in a toilet or was mysteriously smashed to shit somewhere deep in blackout. I was punished for this pretense of competence.Read mor…
Lees meerSpaceX plans to build a “self-sustaining city” on Mars, company founder Elon Musk announced today. Here’s what we know about how they plan to do it.Read more...
Lees meerOn Tuesday, Moscow announced that it would begin transitioning the email software on 6,000 of its government computers away from Microsoft and toward a state-run system. Read more...
Lees meerMany of Trump’s supporters live in a colorful and exciting universe not burdened by the confines of reality. Among their favorite hobbies is inventing conspiracies about their chosen candidate’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, and until last night we had…
Lees meerDJI’s new foldable drone, the Mavic Pro , looks incredible. The announcement comes about one week after the GoPro Karma , another foldable drone, was announced. So how do the two flexy drones stack up against each other? It depends who is flying a…
Lees meerWhile certain things from the original comic book event that inspired Captain America: Civil War made it into the movie , one major piece didn’t: the comic’s infamous final twist in the battle between Tony Stark and Steve Rogers. But according to t…
Lees meerForget Captain Sully, if you’re ever unfortunate enough to have something go wrong with your plane mid-flight, you might want Mark Penell in the cockpit instead. Read more...
Lees meerA new reproductive technique in which a baby is produced with the genetic material from three distinct parents has yielded its first human. Read more...
Lees meerLooking for a new and unique way to share your Instagram shots with the world? A company called Color.Works now offers a unique alternative to simply having your digital photos printed: it will instead turn them into elaborate mosaics hand-assembled…
Lees meerNew research shows that as many as 700,000 microscopic fibers are released into the environment each time we do the laundry. It’s a problem with no easy solution in sight.Read more...
Lees meerLosing someone is painful and world shattering and can almost feel impossible to endure. There’s no real way to prepare yourself and there’s no quick way to get over it but the fact is, everyone is going to have to deal with it at some point in …
Lees meerDJI has owned the American drone market for a while, and for a dang good reason. DJI makes fantastic drones with some of the most advanced features on the market. With a little practice anyone can fly one and pull off the kind of photos and videos y…
Lees meerSince the beginning, people have struggled to describe Russ Meyer’s 1970 film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, and no mere string of words quite captures its narcotic essence. “It’s a camp sexploitation horror musical that ends in a quadruple ritual …
Lees meerOur solar system is rife with geologic activity, from eruptive ice moons to mountainous dwarf planets . Still, Earth always held a special place in the hall of geologic fame. It was the only bonafide planet to exhibit tectonic and seismic activit…
Lees meerLeveraging the same auto-follow ProPILOT technology that allows its vehicles to autonomously navigate traffic, Nissan has created a bunch of self-driving chairs that promise to make it a lot easier the next time you’re forced to wait in line.Read mo…
Lees meerI really love this new video from Cody’s Lab about flushing liquid mercury down a toilet because it just gets more and more ridiculous as it goes on. Read more...
Lees meerWe’re finally going to hear Elon Musk’s plans for a mission to Mars. You can watch along to find out what it is at 2:30pm EDT. In the meantime, here’s some of what we expect to hear—and what it means to the plan to finally put a person on Mars.Read …
Lees meerGuy Sims Fitch had a lot to say about the world economy in the 1950s and 60s. He wrote articles in newspapers around the globe as an authoritative voice on economic issues during the Cold War. Fitch was a big believer in private American investment …
Lees meerAutonomous vehicle technology is still in its infancy, which means that most self-driving vehicles still have a way for humans to take over when needed. But as Komatsu demonstrates with a design for a new autonomous dump truck, in some cases there a…
Lees meerEver imagine a movie scene where Gene Kelly is singing in the rain while Neo and Agent Smith fight and Spider-Man does his upside down kiss with Mary Jane? What about if Tony Leung from The Grandmaster, Jet Li from Lethal Weapon 4, T-Rex from Ju…
Lees meerYou guys, it’s finally here. A USB battery pack with an actual, bona fide AC power outlet built in.Read more...
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