If you’re going to slap the Jeep name on a go-kart, you better make sure it lives up to brand’s pedigree. But with three gears, plus reverse, a swing axle keeping it stable on off-road terrain, and over-sized air-filled tires including a spare, the …
Lees meer“The cyber,” as Donald J. Trump calls it, has been an unrelenting issue in a presidential election marked by politically motivated hacks, massive DDoS attacks, and email kerfuffles. With technology as a focal point, virtually every part of the polit…
Lees meerTwitter is discontinuing its Vine and killing off the mobile app. RIP, Vine. The announcement, posted on Medium (natch), comes just after Twitter announced its latest quarterly earnings.Read more...
Lees meerBack in June, after installing a new lithium-ion battery into its ape-inspired RoboSimian and plugging it into charge, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory had their lunches cut short when the battery suddenly exploded in a spectacular fi…
Lees meerIt’s been 34 days since Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR has said or done anything publicly. The guy who sold his company to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014 released a brief statement after the Daily Beast revealed his participation in Nimble…
Lees meerPopulations of wild vertebrates are on track to fall 67 percent by 2020, according to a new report on the state of Earth’s ecosystems. It’s another stunning reminder of the scale of humanity’s impact on the planet, and a frightening glimpse into the…
Lees meerSamsung just filed its third quarter earnings report, and the results are not looking good. The company’s net profit fell 16.8 percent following the disastrous launch and unprecedented recall of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone launch. Samsung’s mobile …
Lees meerDespite DJI’s promises that shipments for its new Mavic Pro drone were underway, very few drones have made their way to customers. Last week, we wrote about the shipping delays plaguing the drone. Hours after we published our story, DJI released a s…
Lees meerTesla stock price increased 4.45% after hours on Wednesday, perhaps giving a San Francisco-based vandal a creative idea for a crime yesterday evening. “In the most San Francisco crime ever,” Silicon Valley recruiter Morgan Missen tweeted, “someone t…
Lees meerFor every spectacular wingsuit video you see online, you have to assume there are at least 100 that didn’t go as well. They’re just rarely posted. But Eric Dossantos decided to share his recent trip down a mountain featuring some spectacular footage…
Lees meerToday is the day we get a new Macbook Pro. It’s been over a year since the last update and over three years since the last proper processor refresh. The current Macbook Pro is ancient by computer standards, and if Apple’s own leak is anything to go …
Lees meerYou’ve probably heard a lot of fuss about mechanical keyboards lately, and if not, you’ve at least heard the clicking coming from a nearby desk. If you’re curious to try one yourself without dropping a bunch of money, we’ve got deals on two differen…
Lees meerIf you ever have to deal with power shortages and brief outages, Amazon’s offering the lowest price ever on a 1500VA Tripp Lite UPS, today only.Read more...
Lees meerAfter a reign lasting more than 2000 years, the King of the Judeans has been dethroned.Read more...
Lees meer50 percent of American households now subscribe to some sort of video-on-demand, but finding out what’s available through multiple services remains a giant pain in the ass. Fortunately, a long-rumored Apple TV update aims to solve this by creating a…
Lees meerSouth Park is unabashedly vulgar. The language can be crude and the action is sometimes, um, a little much—but the comedy is biting, the issues are relevant, and it’s done so much to change what television looks and sounds like today. Kaptain Kr…
Lees meerIt’s easy for films to make us feel sad or happy by showing us a character be sad or happy. We project our own emotions onto the screen, using what we see as a proxy for our feelings. What’s more brilliant, though, is when a movies utilizes subt…
Lees meerMicrosoft showed off its new Surface Studio all-in-one on Wednesday. More than just an iMac rip-off, the Surface Studio is focused squarely at artists and creative professionals.Read more...
Lees meerIntense videos are emerging of people escaping Boston’s Orange Line at Back Bay station as the station fills with smoke.Read more...
Lees meerLet’s be perfectly clear on this. Gold-plating anything, be it a phone, or a toilet, or a smartwatch, is a terrible and tacky idea. But gold-plating a drone is even worse, and it has nothing to do with aesthetics.Read more...
Lees meerThere are a lot of different conspiracy theories about what happened to the Australian government in November of 1975. In a surprise move, the ultra liberal Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was fired by a lone man using parliamentary procedures that no …
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