This month, Microsoft finally released its new and improved Microsoft Edge browser, which the company rebuilt from scratch. If you’re in the market for break from Chrome, Edge has a few new features that are worth checking out.Edge might look familiar if you’ve used Microsoft’s browser before, but it’s undergone major changes under the hood.…
DetailsIt sounds almost like science fiction: a tiny world that formed around another star, visiting our cosmic neighborhood for us to study. And yet that’s exactly what has happened, twice now as of the last few months. It will only happen more often this decade.Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent…
DetailsIf you don’t have cable, it can be tough figuring out how to stream the Super Bowl. Airing today, this year’s game has the San Francisco 49ers facing off against the Kansas City Chiefs at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. It’s time to break out the chip dips, don your favorite jersey, and maybe win…
DetailsThis year’s crop of Super Bowl ads includes plenty of the usual suspects: expensive cars, cheap beers, big tech. But among the companies coughing up a reported $5.6 million for 30 seconds of Big Game glory is one name most people have never heard of, selling a product that many don’t know exists: Dashlane, an…
DetailsRajiv Shah is president of the Rockefeller Foundation, one of the nation’s oldest philanthropies, founded by oil baron John D. Rockefeller in 1913. President of the foundation since 2017, Shah previously was administrator of the US Agency for International Development, and held several posts at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He met recently with…
DetailsHollis Johnson Apple is expected to release a new Apple Watch in 2020, as it’s done every year since 2015.The biggest new addition to this year’s watch is expected to be sleep tracking, a feature that would help Apple catch up to rivals like Fitbit and Samsung.Otherwise, the next Apple Watch, which is expected to…
DetailsPhoto: Honda Motor Europe Ltd.Honda’s first serious effort at an electric car has had us excited since the concept dropped back in 2017. When the production version was revealed and Honda announced that the car wouldn’t make it to America, it was a real blow. But the car is now in the hands of journalists…
DetailsThis week’s poll is simple: Do you have auto-rotation enabled or disabled on your phone? It’s a single toggle located in your Quick Settings on Android (or the Control Center on iOS), which controls your phone’s ability to rotate content as your phone’s orientation changes. If it’s disabled on recent versions of Android, your phone…
DetailsArticle 13—a controversial piece of copyright legislation that is now called Article 17 but is more colloquially known as “the meme ban”—is no more, in the UK at least. Last week, the country’s minister for universities and science, Chris Skidmore, confirmed that the UK will not implement the EU Copyright Directive after leaving the EU.Wired…
DetailsA new telescope in Hawaii called the Daniel K. Inouye telescope has taken the highest-resolution-ever image of the surface of the sun. The photo reveals the boiling surface, and the mesmerizing pattern looks like popcorn. Fusion reactions—individual hydrogen nuclei smashing together and creating helium—happen nearly every second in the core of the sun, and the…
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