Eric Limer

Google Now Can Remember Where You Parked

Google Now is getting a new superpower: it’s going to be able to remember where you parked. Using your phone’s sensors, it’ll figure out when you’ve exited a moving vehicle and remember your car’s location automatically, so you don’t even have to think twice. Of course, that means you could also get parking locations when…

Supercuts supercut video may cause rip in space-time continuum

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Netflix and Verizon Just Signed a Traffic Deal, And That’s Bad

Remember how Netflix and Comcast signed a peering deal? And how that could cost us all? Well now, the chickens are coming home to roost because Verizon’s making the same deal. Initial news of the deal came by way of a tweet, complete with confirmation by Netflix’s CEO. Details are scarce, but presumably, like Comcast’s…

The Oculus Rift’s Newest Trick: Adding Lag to Real Life

Lag is the worst. Anyone who has ever used technology can tell you that first hand. But what if your whole world lagged. With the Oculus Rift you can find out. Spoilers: It sucks. As part of a project/ad for fiber internet provider ume.net, four volunteers donned an Oculus Rift outfitted with an outward-facing camera,…

Comcast Will Drop 3.9 Million Customers To Merge With TWC

The Comcast-TWC merger is a terrifying prospect, but there’s the small chance it might not go through. Comcast is doing everything it can to make sure to minimize that chance though. In a new proposal, it’s offered to drop nearly 4 million customers, so long as the merger goes through. If the merger is approved,…

Microsoft’s 12 New Original Shows For Xbox, Ranked

Microsoft is going to take its TV seriously. That’s been clear ever since it established its own internal studio and dropped the bombshell that it was working on a live-action Halo series produced by none other than Steven Spielberg. Now, Microsoft is spilling the beans on the rest of its Xbox TV launch line-up, and…

What Exactly Is In Those Stupid Expensive Printer Ink Cartridges?

What’s inside an ink cartridge? The short answer is a lot of (expensive!) water, 95 percent in fact. But mixed in is a fascinatingly complex soup of other chemicals that control the ink’s properties down to the micro-drop. Of course, knowing all that doesn’t make shelling out for a new one any less painful. [Wired]

Google Now Is Hilariously Vulgar When It Explains an “Upper Decker”

Need to know what an upper decker is? Google Now has you covered. In fantastic detail. Who knows exactly how Steve Boutilier discovered this particularly weird and casual definition—Google Now’s definition of “blumpkin” for instance (which it will also read to you) is a more formally-worded entry from Wiktionary. One thing is for sure though:…

DarkMarket Could Be the New Silk Road the Feds Can’t Take Down

The original Silk Road got seized by the feds. Its successor got hacked apart and robbed. Third time’s a charm? Maybe. The minds behind a new proof-of-concept marketplace called “DarkMarket” say their model is impossible for the feds to take down. Amir Taaki and the other developers behind DarkMarket revealed their baby at the Toronto…

Not only is Amazon Prime getting a whole bunch of HBO shows, but Amazon’s Fire TV is also getting an HBO Go app, which remedies one of its biggest holes at launch. Woo!

At long last, Roku finally is getting a YouTube app. That closes one of the few streaming holes it had left, and only goes further to make it more important than ever.

Esquire editor Ryan D’Agostino will be taking over as Editor-in-Chief at Popular Mechanics in a few weeks. Godspeed Ryan, we can’t wait to see what you do with it!

First-person stuntman videos make me want to jump off a crane

It’d be fun to be a stuntman if you had the stones to put your body on the line and jump off of stuff all day. Even if you don’t, these GoPro videos of real stuntman dives will give you a taste of what it’s like. (Spoilers: It’s awesome.) Each little clip features Canadian gymnast…

The now Google-owned Nest thermostat is now available for purchase in the hardware section of the Google Play Store for its regular price of $250. Now where are those Boston Dynamics robots?

The newest version of Google Hangouts for Android now merges SMS and non-SMS messages into a single stream in the same hangout. Yesssssssssss. The update is rolling out to the Google Play store this week, but there’s an APK floating around already. Woooooo

The Game Boy Turns 25 Today

You’ve almost certainly played a game on your phone today. Some beautiful, high-res game with a rainbow of colors and fluid animation. You’ve got a lot of power in your pocket these days, but portable gaming owes a lot to the chunky old Game Boy, which is 25 years old today. Released in Japan on…

Every Fireworks Show Should Have a Quadcopter Cameraman

Fireworks look awesome from the ground, but have you ever wished you could be inside them? Probably not because that’s verifiably insane, but this quadcopter footage shows off how great the view is from up there. Filming fireworks with a quadcopter isn’t an entirely novel idea, but we’ve never seen one fly quite as close…

Think You Know Basic Physics? This Balloon Will Prove You Wrong

When you have a balloon floating in a car and start driving, instead of getting thrown back, it actually flies forward. What? Are balloons immune to inertia? Is physics broken? Nope. As SmarterEveryDay explains, it actually makes perfect sense, as science always does. Balloons aren’t weirdly above being affected by the first law of motion,…

What We Know About the First Earth-Sized Planet In a Habitable Zone

When you’re looking for alien life, the best place to look is somewhere like Earth; the only place we know of that life exists. Kepler-186f, the first Earth-sized planet to be found in the habitable zone of a star, is the best bet we’ve ever found. We’d heard details about this find a little while…