Microsoft is following Sony's lead and temporarily dropping the price on the Xbox One for the holiday season. Now through Christmas Eve you can save $50 on all One and One S bundles, which could make grabbing another game or a spare control…
Lees meerTurbines at the Block Island Windfarm, which start generating electricty today. Image: AP Photo/Michael DwyerNearly 30 years after towering turbines began cropping up in European waters, the United States is finally producing its first drops of offs…
Lees meerIt’s good to just stare at pretty images and forget the rest of the world exists sometimes. So take your time as you watch this edit by Jim Casey that is just one beautiful shot after another beautiful shot from all sorts of beautiful films. It cove…
Lees meerIf you both have a state-of-the-art surround sound setup and are in the Xbox One Preview Program, this week should sound pretty great. That's because the update adding support for Dolby Atmos is rolling out to the Xbox One and Xbox One S, a…
Lees meerImage: GettyIf you’re a fried chicken enthusiast living in the United Kingdom, your Chicken Stamps may be in peril.Read more...
Lees meerThe long-running legal battle between Congress and the online classified ads site Backpage.com has finally come to a close after a California judge dismissed pimping charges against the site's CEO and co-founders today. The site's "adult" s…
Lees meerImage: AP Photo/David GoldmanThe key concern of protesters at Standing Rock has been and remains the environmental hazard posed by Energy Transfer Partners’ 1,200-mile pipeline, which would have the potential to taint local water supplies and destro…
Lees meerThe Rainbow Grilled Cheese. Image: Chomp EaterySan Francisco is a city of long lines, and on a Saturday afternoon few lines here are longer than the one in front of the Chocolate Chair in Japantown. The Chocolate Chair’s specialty is Dragon’s Breath…
Lees meerUrban areas continue to vex the US military as tall buildings and narrow streets keep impeding troop communications and tactics. While ground soldiers have used single drones for years, DARPA believes that a whole swarm could mitigate those…
Lees meerJapanese artist Thumb Tani may have negotiated some deal with how gravity works on Earth for his coin sculptures. Or maybe he is somehow channeling Magneto’s superpowers. No way could be just carefully placing these coins on top of each other, beca…
Lees meerThis week on streaming: Amazon is delivering the second season of its The Man in the High Castle series, Netflix premieres include Barry, Nobel and Crazyhead, Hulu presents the season finale of Chance. On Blu-ray, Suicide Squad is available…
Lees meerImage: GettyAmazon is a very rich company, with a market cap of $361 billion and stock price of over $750 a share. But as we’ve seen, the fortune of huge tech companies don’t often translate down to its employees. In some cases, it leaves them livin…
Lees meerElon Musk's plan to put a human crew in space using a Dragon capsule won't happen in 2017 after all. Although SpaceX was scheduled to launch a manned NASA mission next year, that mission has now been delayed until 2018 while Musk's company …
Lees meerUnlike pretty much everything else, science fiction and fantasy had a great 2016. There were so many great shows that we had a lot of contenders for our best list, and only a few for our worst, so we ended up with twice as many TV series to acclaim …
Lees meerImage: Apple/Emojipedia/Gizmodo CompositeApple on Monday released iOS 10.2 for the iPhone and iPad. There are a number of new features, including the new TV app, but the real reason you want to download iOS 10.2 is for the hundreds of new and redesi…
Lees meerOne more thing President-elect Trump will inherit when he takes office next month: a large, state-run media operation with little or no impartial oversight. As the Washington Post's editorial board wrote this weekend, the United States' off…
Lees meerIt’s 1997 and digital cameras were just coming on the market. Native support didn’t exist on Mac or PC, USB ports weren’t standard, and the miniSD card wouldn’t exist for another 6 years. The best storage option for the time was the humble floppy di…
Lees meerAt the premiere of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story this weekend, Disney CEO Bob Iger said, “It is not a film that is, in any way, a political film. There are no political statements in it, at all.” That cannot be true. Star Wars is, and always has been…
Lees meerAs many of us prepare for holiday season travel, armed with headphones and Xanax, it’s incredible to realize that we can now watch TV on an airplane. On a recent JetBlue flight from JFK to SFO, I realized how modern marvels can be far from marvelou…
Lees meerIf you thought that the only greenhouse gas worth panicking over was carbon dioxide, then you're gonna need a lie down. Methane, the Art Garfunkel / Luigi to CO2's Paul Simon / Mario (delete as appropriate) is on a mission to wreck our plan…
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