The Toyota Prius Prime is a great technological achievement. So why does the UX suck so badly? | Continue reading
intel is predicting that its microprocessors will hit 10ghz by the year 2011. in addition, it is currently working on a system bus that is 10 times faster than its upcoming 400 mhz … | Continue reading
Apple faces litigation over the recent confession that it deliberately slows older iPhones to prevent battery damage. The tech titan last week admitted to reducing the function of iPhone 6, 6s, 7, and … | Continue reading
Despite early misgivings, Sonic the Hedgehog has broken the record for a U.S. video game movie debut. Paramount’s troubled adaptation raced to the top of the weekend box office, earning $57 million in … | Continue reading
The rhythm game genre remains a bit dormant after the great boom and bust of Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Harmonix tried its hand at music-themed Kinect games Dance Central and Fantasia while … | Continue reading
One person’s hallucinogenic drug is another person’s antidepressant. Scientists at Miami University discovered a way to genetically engineer bacteria from the psilocybin (or “magic”) mushroom to help treat depression. If ingested, the fungus … | Continue reading
McDonald’s is slowly but surely eliminating humans workers from its fast-food equation. Following the rollout of self-order kiosks and “personalized” menus, the burger empire plans to automate drive-thrus with its acquisition of Apprente. … | Continue reading
Tesla is taking Netflix and chill on the road with new streaming features. The luxury car manufacturer will “soon” offer YouTube and Netflix streaming in stationary vehicles. Watch the final season of Orange … | Continue reading
A unique shield, made from tree bark and believed to have been constructed during the Iron Age, has been discovered in Leicestershire, UK, according to researchers. The 2,600-year-old shield, made between 395 and 255BC, is the … | Continue reading
In 2029, a massive asteroid called 99942 Apophis will fly past our planet at an approximate distance of 19,000 miles within the distance of some orbiting spacecraft. Even though this event is expected … | Continue reading
“Flat Earthers” are planning to go on a bizarre journey to Antarctica to prove that Earth is not a spherical planet. The expedition, which will reportedly take place next year, is being organized … | Continue reading
Seeing through the fog of Steam.com. | Continue reading
A rare 1943 copper Lincoln cent — found by a Massachusetts teenager in his change after he paid for lunch at a school cafeteria — is expected to fetch up to $1.7 million when … | Continue reading
The Grand Rapids Public School district took a big step into the future back in the 1980s when it used money from an energy bond to purchase a Commodore Amiga computer. The Amiga, … | Continue reading
Roblox is sort of a perfect storm for hackers, scammers, and other sorts of disingenuous people on the internet. Not only can you easily create a free account (without even needing an email … | Continue reading
Video games and nuclear weapons came of age together — just 13 years separate the first nuclear bomb from the first electronic game. As time went on, the threat of world destruction at … | Continue reading
Nearly a decade ago, Apple gave us a way to remotely wipe iPhone and iPads… just in case they fell into the wrong hands. Last week, one New York woman figured it was … | Continue reading
Thanks to machine learning, researchers are one step closer to understanding the structure and function of different brain regions. Scientists from the Brain Research Institute of the University of Zurich (UZH) and the … | Continue reading
Skeletal remains of a tiny foot—about the size of a human thumb—suggest the children of our early ancestors were not so different from modern rugrats. The fossil belongs to Selam, a three-year-old female … | Continue reading
Robots are quickly replacing taxi drivers, couriers, sex workers, caretakers, and cleaners. But I’d have thought stunt doubles were safe from locum tenens. Of course, anything is possible at Disney. The Walt Disney … | Continue reading
In one of the big musical numbers from The Life Of Brian, Eric Idle reminds us to “always look on the bright side of life.” Norman, a new artificial intelligence project from MIT, … | Continue reading
The US is in a bad way. And I’m not just talking the political climate…or actual climate. Life expectancy in the US has been on the decline for the previous two years, and it … | Continue reading
If you’ve played Fez then you already know that the game has an excellent soundtrack– it’s a synthy, moody, set of 26 chiptune tracks from Disasterpeace. What you probably don’t know is that … | Continue reading