Scientists Stabbed Cactus Spines Into Meat to Study Evolution
One benefit of working at a university with an agricultural school is the availability of meat. That’s especially useful if you need something to stab cactus spines into.
FCC to Release Report Wednesday Telling You If Your Broadband Provider Is Screwing You
The Federal Communications Commission plans to publish a report on Wednesday that will purportedly reveal whether internet service providers are providing the broadband speeds they claim they are.
Teen Vaping May Have Led to Less Teen Smoking, Study Finds
The FDA calls teen vaping an “epidemic,” but the influence of e-cigarettes on teens’ overall health might be more complicated than assumed, according to a new study out Thursday in the journal Tobacco Control. It suggests that while teens and young adults in the U.S. did start flocking to e-cigarettes these past few…
The Best Black Friday Tech Deals [Updating]
Welcome to our hub for all of the best Black Friday deals in the world of tech! Speakers, TVs, headphones, laptops, tablets, battery packs <deep breath> cameras, storage devices, sound bars, wearables...you’ll find it all here. Stay tuned, we’ll be updating this post as deals go live, and throughout the holiday…
Deplatformed Russian 'News' Site Sues Facebook, Days After Its Accountant Is Charged by Special Council
Earlier today, Evgeniy Lvovich Zubarev, the sole shareholder and General Director of a “domestic and international news” corporation called Federal Agency of News LLC, filed a suit against Facebook for booting his page from its platform this April. In and of itself, the lawsuit is unremarkable. People sue internet…
Samsung's Ultra-Fast MicroSD Cards Just Dropped to New Black Friday Price Lows
Samsung’s U3-rated microSD cards are some of the fastest and most popular options out there—I have the 128GB model in my own Nintendo Switch—and all four sizes are down to all-time low prices today on Amazon.
Blockchain Is Especially at Risk for Quantum Attacks, Scientists Warn
Blockchain is meant to be secure—but a new paper from quantum computing scientists warns that quickly advancing quantum technology poses a vulnerability for the much-hyped blockchain.
This Guy Has to Be One of the Best Drone Pilots in The World
A few years ago I wrote about how YouTube opened up rallying to the world in a way that it never had before, taking the sport out of forests and onto screens everywhere. I didn’t expect the same of drones and drifting but here we are.
Save $300 On This Completely Bonkers 7.1.2 Dolby Atmos Sound Bar For Black Friday
You won’t find a standalone sound bar more advanced than this model from Sony, and it’s $300 off for Black Friday. Granted, it still costs $1200 even during this all-time low sale, but it has seven channels of audio up front to bounce audio off your walls for virtual surround sound, a wireless subwoofer for bass, and…
How Hurricane Michael Revealed the Forgotten Victims of Climate Change
Jose Herrada, an inmate at Florida’s Gulf Correctional Institution, first heard news about Hurricane Michael on the radio. Initially, Herrada thought little of it. Although the state of Florida had issued a mandatory evacuation order for nearby Panama City and surrounding areas, officials at Gulf CI hadn’t brought up…
Report: Elon Musk Weed Stuff Prompts NASA Probe of SpaceX 'Workplace Safety'
According to the Washington Post, NASA will launch an extensive “safety review” of SpaceX and Boeing, assessing the culture of the two private companies tapped to fly the agency’s astronauts. Citing three unnamed officials, the newspaper reports that the review was provoked by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s…
Big Black Friday Deal: Step Up to a 75" 4K TV For Just $760
If size is the most important consideration in your hierarchy of new TV needs, Walmart’s running a pretty fantastic deal on a really big TV for Black Friday.
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Ralph Breaks the Internet's Directors on the Importance of Slaughter Race, the Film's Grand Theft Auto Clone
The world of Wreck-It Ralph was born from video games. In the first film, there’s Fix-It Felix Jr., Sugar Rush, and Hero’s Duty. And even though the second film, Ralph Breaks the Internet, doesn’t take place in an arcade, the filmmakers were not going to miss a chance to add another game to the universe.
Microsoft's Latest Surfaces Are On Sale Now For Black Friday
Microsoft is a hardware manufacturer now, and a damn decent one at that. Whether you’ve been pining for the laptop-replacing Surface Pro 5 or 6, the iPad-like Surface Go, or the the wonderfully old-school Surface Laptop 2, they’re all on sale for Black Friday, starting now.
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The Big PS4 Black Friday Deal Is Available Now: $199 For the Console Plus Spider-Man
Update: Back in stock! Seems like we’re only going to get this deal for a couple hours every day, so don’t miss your chance.
Facebook Took Two Weeks to Delete a Post Selling a Child Bride in South Sudan: Report
A 16-year-old girl in South Sudan was recently auctioned on Facebook for marriage, according to a report from CNN. The social network reportedly didn’t remove the post until 15 days after it was published and nearly a week after she was already married.
Brain-Destroying Prions Also Spread Through Victims' Eyes
One of the strangest things that can sicken us—a rogue misfolded protein that destroys the brain, known as a prion—is even scarier than we knew. Researchers were able to find the prions responsible for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), the most common prion disease in people, seeded everywhere in the eyes of…
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