Adam Clark Estes

Report: A Radically Redesigned 12-Inch MacBook Air Is Coming

Everyone’s been waiting years and years for a meaningful update to the MacBook line. According to a report from 9to5 Mac, this will be the year that a new design will arrive. The blog just published a few renderings based on details from unnamed Apple employees. And if they’re correct, this new MacBook looks awesome.…

3D-Printed Guns Are Only Getting Better, and Scarier

A couple years ago, when a 25-year-old law student in Texas said he was going to 3D-print a gun, nobody took him seriously. Then, he actually did it. And then, a lot of people started doing it. Now, it’s so easy that some protestors are going make a gun inside the Texas State Capitol with…

Keeping the company’s “early 2015” promise, the handsome new Fitbit Charge HR and Fitbit Surge fitness trackers are now shipping for $150 and $250. This, just two weeks after Christmas, when so many fitness-loving family members would’ve loved a new Fitbit.

Comcast Says It’ll Offer Gigabit Internet This Year

In an exciting if suspicious announcement today, Comcast, everybody’s least favorite company, just told an audience at CES that it would start offering home customers gigabit internet speedsin 2015. That’s this year! And, well, we’ll believe it when we see it. The Comcast exec’s announcement came in conjunction with a Broadcom event showcasing the new…

Hubble Took an Even Better Version of One of Its Best Photos Ever

Back in 1995, the Hubble telescope took an absolutely breathtaking photo of stars being formed that’s now known as “Pillars of Creation.” And now, 20 years later, NASA has released a couple new images of the same star formation that was taken by a new and improved Hubble last year. It’s beyond breathtaking. It’s bonkers.…

This $9K Machine Could Usher in the Era of 3D-Printed Electronics

The technology that would enable us to 3D-print electronics along with the circuits that make them work has been around for a while, but a team of Harvard researchers just announced a new 3D-printerthat could change the game. Soon, you could 3D print a drone in your living room—which is insane. The Voxel8 looks a…

FCC Launches Slick New Public Complaint Site

Last year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) famously botched the record-breaking public comment period on net neutrality thanks to its crappy technology. Now, the agency has launched a slick new system that suggests this won’t happen again. Too bad they’re about eight months late to updating the technology. The new, easy-to-navigate site (a.k.a. the Consumer…

Someone send this man some LEGO so he can make a full-body exoskeleton

You know that box of old LEGO blocks under your childhood bed? (Or your current bed.) Now’s the time to surrender at least a handful of them for the greater good of humanity. In this case, the greater good involves helping Milan Sekiz build a full-body exoskeleton out of LEGO. Sekiz recently posted images of…

4K Drone Footage Captures Apple’s New Spaceship HQ, and It’s Massive

After looking at rendered images for years, seeing real footage of Apple’s new spaceship of a headquarters is a little bit surreal. We got a peek at the building’s footprint last summer, but a new clip shot with a drone in 4K really shows the building taking shape. Boy, is it huge. The video comes…

The New Hackers Reality Show Would Be Great If Hacking Weren’t So Boring

SyFy just announced a new reality TV show called Hackers. It’s about hacking, naturally, and the network promises it will be awesome and exciting. (Spoiler: Hacking is incredibly boring.) The new, unscripted show does sound interesting. It’s unclear if the new SyFy series has anything to do with the 90’s classic film Hackers. SyFy will…

One of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchanges Just Went Dark After Getting Hacked

Just a few days after reports emerged that the infamous Mt. Gox meltdown was an inside job, one of the biggest, oldest, and most trusted bitcoin exchanges—Bitstamp—just went offline after a security breach. Bitcoin exchanges come and go all the time, but this is different. Bitstamp is supposed to be the reliable one. A hack…

The FBI Thought This Guy’s Joke Was a Legit Threat to CNN

Remember when the FBI issued a bulletin about the Sony hackers’ threatening a media outlet? Turns out the threat was actually a thinly veiled joke made by David Garrett, Jr., a homeland security blogger from Knoxville, Tennessee. The punchline: David got to spend his New Year’s Day being questioned by the Feds! There are a…

The FCC Will Finally Decide on Net Neutrality in February

After countless months of hemming and hawing, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will reportedly vote on new net neutrality rules in February. Unnamed sources at the FCC told The Washington Post as much today. Specifics remain vague, but here’s hoping Tom Wheeler and friends listen to the president’s advice. Update (01/07/2014): FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler…

Every time Carl Sagan said million, billion, trillion, and quadrillion

If Carl Sagan taught us anything about our universe in Cosmos, he taught us how small we are in the grand scheme of things. The universe deals in magnitudes far beyond our comprehension: billions of galaxies, trillions of stars, quadrillions of particles. So many, that one crazy fan compiled all those ‘illions into one trippy…

If Your iCloud Password Is On This List, Change It Before You Get Hacked

Somebody just uploaded a password-hacking tool called iDict to GitHub that promises to use good old fashioned brute force techniques to crack iCloud passwords. The tool also claims to be able to evade Apple’s rate-limiting and two-factor authentication security that’s supposed to prevent brute force attacks. But it’s not quite as bad as it sounds.…

Unlike All Those Dumb Crowdfunding Campaigns, This Smart Ring Exists

Most smart rings look pretty dumb. Nobody really needs a little screen on their finger to tell them when they get a text message. However, I almost want to wear this 3D-printed a Bluetooth Ö ring with a teeny tiny OLED that can display Elvish text. Almost. Wearing the ring isn’t exactly the point, though.…

All I Want Out of New Year’s Eve Is a Swingin’ Party

I listened to “Swingin’ Party” by Kindness more than any other song in 2014. It’s not really party music, and it’s certainly not swing music. (It’s not about swinging either, perv.) But the chill, let’s-hang-out-with-our-favorite-friends vibe is everything I want out of my New Year’s Eve. “Swingin’ Party” was originally released by The Replacements in…

The Trillion Dollar F-35 Won’t Even Be Able to Shoot Its Gun Until 2019

At this point, it’s not even funny how much the Pentagon has screwed up the development of its new stealth fighter jet, the F-35. But the latest report that the jet’s 25mm cannon won’t be operational until 2019 at the earliest is just laughable. Even more laughable is that it probably doesn’t even need the…

Tesla’s Building Robotic Snakes That Emerge From Walls to Charge Cars

Elon Musk just tweeted some pretty exciting news. In the future, Tesla owners won’t have to worry about plugging in their cars. Robot snake arms will do it for them. No, seriously: He added in a follow up tweet, “This can be used with all existing Model S cars, not just futures [sic] ones.” The…

FBI: The Sony Hackers Also Targeted CNN (Probably)

According to an official FBI bulletin obtained by The Intercept, the same hackers who broke into Sony Pictures and stole a devastating amount of data made threats against an American “news media organization” as well. (It’s probably CNN.) The bulletin also warns that the attacks “may extend to other such organizations in the near future.”…