Bird lovers, let’s hear it for the little guy. Researchers have just discovered evidence that common swifts (a small type of bird) can spend 10 continuous months per year in the air without landing—a world record for sustained flight in nature.Read …
Lees meerIn the lead-up to the holiday season, Microsoft is throwing down the gauntlet. Got an Apple-branded laptop? The tech giant will give you up to $650 to part ways with it, just as long as you spend that cash on a shiny new Surface Pro 4 or a Surface B…
Lees meerThanks to a poor dinosaur who scientists believe fell into a noxious pond after it died, we may have the first known fossilized dinosaur brain on our hands. Read more...
Lees meerApple just announced a new TV app for Apple TV, and it’s basically going to be useless. The TV app is supposed to keep track of all the shows you watch across apps available on Apple TV, but there’s a huge catch. The TV app will not include Netflix …
Lees meerThanks to the Freedom of Information Act, I’ve received CIA biographic reports on both the former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and the man who controversially ousted him in 1975, John Kerr. But there’s one guy involved in “The Dismissal” …
Lees meerYou might have heard about Marvel’s Mockingbird series in the news this week—for all the wrong reasons. Its writer, Chelsea Cain, was cruelly harassed off Twitter by “fans” outraged that the series’ final issue featured a cover of Bobbi Morse wearin…
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Lees meerI had no idea what Vine was for when it launched. It seemed dumb and arbitrary, an app that would make a six-second video loop. Why video? Why six seconds? And who was even watching?Read more...
Lees meerStabilizing footage of Steve Storey’s mountain bike ride down a bumpy trail almost turns it into a casual cruise around the park. That is, if you only stare at the top half of the footage. If you look at the bottom half, you’ll see how much thra…
Lees meerToday’s Apple event was, uh, shockingly similar to Microsoft’s live event yesterday. Both opened with a montage of each brand’s products helping differently abled users experience the world through technology and then focused almost entirely on a si…
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Lees meerThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just voted 3-2 to stop internet service providers from sharing your personal data with third parties, like location data or browsing history, without your explicit consent. Read more...
Lees meerI am inconsolable. My body is wrapped around the base of the toilet in my office’s handicapped bathroom stall heaving and shaking. What do you do when you’ve lost your best friend?Read more...
Lees meerNASA’s Mars Reconaissance Orbiter (MRO) has acquired new high-resolution images of the crashed Schiaparelli lander, following its ill-fated attempt to reach the surface of Mars in one piece. The images confirm that the lander had a very hard fall, a…
Lees meerThe MacBook Air is likely dead. Despite being Apple’s most popular current computer, and used by programmers, bloggers, and coffee shop patrons everywhere, the MacBook Air appears to have been put to pasture. It’s never going to get a super high res…
Lees meerDuring its special media event today, Apple announced it’s partnering with rival LG Electronics to launch a new high-resolution 5K display. The monitor is designed specifically to work with the new USB-C port included on all of the newest MacBook Pr…
Lees meerThe crown jewel of Apple’s live event today is the brand new Macbook Pro—the company’s first big update to the product line since 2012. It’s thin, light, and sports a giant trackpad, but the flashiest change by far is the Touch Bar.Read more...
Lees meerToday is a very sad day for memes, because Twitter killed its viral video app, Vine. Vine, while never “profitable,” was responsible for the internet’s most prolific and viral memes. To honor the beauty that was Vine, let’s take a tour through 10 vi…
Lees meerAfter approximately 27 years, Apple is finally giving us a new MacBook Pro.Read more...
Lees meerDid you think that we were done with the “Who will Negan kill in The Walking Dead season premiere?” question just because the season premiere finally aired? Ha ha, nope! Because some very strange new footage has surfaced that indicates the show had …
Lees meerToday in Cupertino, Tim Cook wowed the audience by announcing a new app for the Apple TV, and the app has the worst name available—TV. Read more...
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