Updated 1:56 pm: This post hasn’t been live long but the price is already bouncing around on Amazon. Check all colors. $249 is also a good price, but it may go down again. it’s hard to say.Apple’s newest iPad isn’t radically different over its predecessors, but it’s still the best tablet for most people. It’s…
NASA’s new exoplanet telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS for short, recently released a new panoramic photo of the arc of our Milky Way surrounded by an endless array of stars.TESS—a successor to the Kepler Space Telescope, which ran out of fuel in 2018 after almost a decade in space—spends its time staring…
Happy post-Thanksgiving weekend! Hope you’re still in a turkey coma and survived the lively political discourse with your various uncles. As you shop leftover Black Friday and upcoming Cyber Monday sales, please be safe out there; it’s a scammer’s paradise. Oh, and think twice before you give a device with a microphone or camera, especially…
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. A new book from Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert who came under fire for supporting Donald Trump in 2016, lays out some proposals for online civility. Photograph: Marcio Jose Sanchez/APAfter expressing support for Donald Trump in 2016, Dilbert creator Scott Adams estimates that he lost about 30…
This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.A great extinction is under way across most of the planet. From the forests of the Amazon to the suburban hinterlands of America, from the depths of the oceans to Southeast Asia’s mangrove swamps, millions of species are being lost.…
A thousand seemingly insignificant things change as an organism ages. Beyond the obvious signs like graying hair and memory problems are myriad shifts both subtler and more consequential: Metabolic processes run less smoothly; neurons respond less swiftly; the replication of DNA grows faultier.Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent publication of…
Some so-called smart garments—clothing and accessories outfitted with sensors, Bluetooth, and other gadgetry—flirt with the absurd. Does anyone need a $1,000 touch-interface backpack that alerts you if you accidentally leave your phone somewhere? Or a (now discontinued) sweatshirt that tracks your movements and awards redeemable ‘points’ you can spend on gift cards and “VIP experiences”?…
Red Bull’s Formula 1 team may not have won the constructors’ or drivers’ championship this season, but it did prove its mastery of what happens in pit row. At the German Grand Prix in July, its pit crew set a record stop time, swapping out the car’s tires in 1.88 seconds. Then in November in…
By Mat Paget | @MatPaget, Jenae Sitzes | @jenaesitzes, and Steven Petite on November 30, 2019 at 2:26PM PSTThe products discussed here were independently chosen by our editors. GameSpot may get a share of the revenue if you buy anything featured on our site. Cyber Monday 2019 upcoming deals and leftover Black Friday offersWith the…
It’s common knowledge that the oldest gasoline-powered internal combustion automobile is a German one, the 1885 Benz Patent-Motorwagen. That’s all great, but if you want to drive it, you better head to a private track. That’s because it’s not only a priceless piece of history, it’s also not street legal. If you want to drive…
