RIP Diana Wynne Jones, author of Howl’s Moving Castle
Prolific fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones has passed away at the age of 76. She had been battling lung cancer for the past two years. Born in 1934, Jones studied at Oxford and attended lectures by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. She published her first novel, Changeover, in 1970. Jones is best-known for her 1986…
What are the fastest spacecraft we’ve ever built?
We have a long way to go before we can get a probe to another star in the space of a human lifetime. The figure always cited here is the heliocentric speed of Voyager 1, some 17.05 kilometers per second, which is faster than any of our outward bound spacecraft but would take well over…
This Week’s Best Apps
In this week’s app roundup: photos, automatically shared; pictures, wirelessly synced; fantasy baseball drafts, prepared; live wallpapers, personalized; disasters, alerted; movie clips, single served; your drunken night, erased from social networks, and much much more. The week’s best iPhone apps https://gizmodo.com/the-weeks-best-iphone-apps-5786046 Color: A new sort of social network/photo sharing app, Color uses your phone’s sensors…
