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HP Spectre x360 15 Review: A Slick Laptop That’s Nearly Ruined by One Stupid Mistake

The HP Spectre x360 15-inch laptop is a lovely machine. It’s attractively designed, powerful enough for most big tasks, and features a new 15.6-inch OLED display that will make your eyes weep with joy. Too bad HP put a terrible trackpad on the thing. While HP launched the laptop earlier this spring, the device I…

Laptops Alex Cranz Jun 18

US Solar Power Is Booming This Year Despite Trump’s Tariffs

Clean energy is on the up and up again, and the U.S. solar industry is benefiting as a result. Despite a drop in solar installations last year, this year is expected to see installations increase, according to a new report. Published Tuesday, the report from the Solar Energy Industries Association and Wood Mackenzie Power &…

Energy Yessenia Funes Jun 18

This Snail-Inspired, Reusable Adhesive Is Far Stronger Than Velcro

Scientists have developed an adhesive that is both sticky and reusable thanks to inspiration from snail mucus, according to a new study. Things stick together thanks to a combination of various microscopic and macroscopic behaviors, influenced by interactions between individual molecules and the shapes of surfaces. The complexity makes it difficult to create something that…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jun 18

Alex Kurtzman’s Plan for More Star Trek Than Ever Before: Keep It Varied

Star Trek: Discovery is already charting itself a bold new course going into season three. Picard is on the way. And that’s before we get to the animated shows and the seemingly zillions of other Star Trek projects in the works. In an age with more Trek than ever before, how does its architect plan…

io9 James Whitbrook Jun 18

During the Ice Age, Long-Legged Hyenas Prowled the Arctic

A pair of fossilized teeth confirms the presence of hyenas north of the Arctic circle during the last Ice Age. The discovery fills an important fossil gap that finally explains how hyenas ended up in North America. A pair of isolated hyena teeth found in the Old Crow Basin of Canada’s Yukon Territory shows that…

Biology George Dvorsky Jun 18

Boaty McBoatface Just Helped Solve a Deep-Sea Mystery

The internet was a purer place in 2016, and there’s no more perfect distillation of that truth than the spontaneous, crowdsourced effort to name a £200 million state-of-the-art research vessel Boaty McBoatface. The British government eventually decided to go with the more stately RRS Sir David Attenborough, but it offered the public an olive branch…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Jun 18

Microsoft Is Considering a Dedicated Office Key for Keyboards—Here’s What It Should Do

Microsoft introduced the Windows key on the Microsoft Natural Keyboard back in 1994, and while sometimes it can be a bit annoying (like when you accidentally hit it while playing games), the Windows key has proven itself useful enough to find its way onto a huge number of third-party keyboards. But now, Microsoft is considering…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Jun 18

Lawyer Gets 14 Years in Prison for Extorting Millions From Porn Pirates

So ends one of the strangest piracy cases of the past few years, with lawyer turned lawbreaker Paul Hansmeier catching a whopping 168-month sentence for his role in a bizarre extortion scheme targeting internet users who downloaded porn. To refresh your memory almost three years after the indictments were first made, Hansmeier and another lawyer,…

Tech News Avery Ellis Jun 18

Alphabet Squadron Is the Closest Thing to an X-Wing Book Star Wars Has Had in Years, and I Love It

When you announce a new Star Wars novel about a ragtag team of hypercompetent pilots, it’s hard not to immediately draw connections to Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston’s work on some of the best Star Wars books of all time: the X-Wing series. Alphabet Squadron, this Disney-canon successor to the throne, is the closest…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Jun 18

Boeing Says It’s Open to Changing the Name of the 737 Max to Something That’s Not Associated With Plane Crashes

After three months of being grounded following two fatal crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia, the 737 Max may be up for a rebranding. Boeing’s chief financial officer Greg Smith said on Monday at the Paris Air Show that the aerospace company is considering changing the name of its now infamous airplane, Bloomberg reports. “I’d say…

Transportation Jennings Brown Jun 18

iOS 13 Will Remind You to Cancel Those Bloodsucking Subscriptions

Competition is great for the consumer, but it also means you end up having to keep tabs on umpteen different subscriptions for services like streaming music, movies, and even games. In an effort to ensure none of them get forgotten along the way, it appears as if iOS 13 will include some handy reminders about…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 18

Google Calendar Dies One Hour After Google Tweets About How Great It Is [Updated—It’s Back]

No, it’s not you. Google Calendar really does appear to be down. Navigating to calendar.google.com will present you with a 404 error. Twitter users began to complain about the outage at approximate 10:05 AM EST and Gizmodo staff has been unable to navigate to Google Calendar from either the US or Canada. This isn’t even…

Tech News Alex Cranz Jun 18

An Appreciation of the Postal Mailbox—and How Its Latest Design Diminishes the Magic of Mail

Depending on where you live, you may have noticed a new type of mailbox appearing on your local streets. At first glance, they look like the same signature blue boxes with rounded tops that the United States Postal Service has been using for decades. But if you try to mail a letter in one of…

Tech News Paul Lukas Jun 18

Robert Rodriguez Breaks Down How Much the Manga Inspired Alita: Battle Angel

Alita: Battle Angel was a film over a decade in the making, with director Robert Rodriguez eventually stepping in for James Cameron to complete his dream project. Both Cameron and Rodriguez had big plans for how the film would pay tribute to Yukito Kishiro’s manga, and in this latest behind the scenes featurette we get…

Movies Beth Elderkin Jun 18

Five Massive Screw-ups That Wouldn’t Have Happened If We All Just Used the Metric System

Almost every country in the world uses metric measurements. Every country except for the United States that is. It’s usually not a big problem. But there have been some close calls throughout history when people used metric instead of imperial, or vice versa with disastrous results. Fox News talking head Tucker Carlson reignited the debate over…

Tech News Matt Novak Jun 18

Meet the New King of Trilobites, R. rex

Nobody messes with the king. Well, except for the relentless passing of time. Scientists analyzing a large collection of trilobite specimens realized that one species, Redlichia takooensis, seemed to fit into two different shape categories. They suggested splitting off the larger group into a new species, Redlichia rex, which, like T. rex, uses the latin…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jun 18

Iran Says It Will Begin Enriching Uranium Beyond Nuclear Deal Limits

Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said on Monday that it has increased production of low-enriched uranium—of the type suitable for use in nuclear power generators, but not nuclear warheads—to levels that will exceed limits imposed in the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and other world powers by June 27, the New York Times reported on Monday.…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Jun 18

Another Familiar Face Says They Could Be Back for the Next Ghostbusters

Rumors swirl about potential Shang-Chi casting. Ray Fisher doesn’t think he’s done as the DC movieverse’s Cyborg just yet. Get a look at what’s to come on The Handmaid’s Tale. Plus, new details on Pennyworth, and wild rumors about a new Justice League movie. Spoilers, assemble! Ghostbusters In a recent interview with KTLA 5, Annie…

Television James Whitbrook Jun 18

Facebook Announces Libra, Digital Currency on the Blockchain That Doesn’t Actually Need to Be on the Blockchain

Facebook and 27 other partner companies formally announced this morning they plan to launch a digital currency called Libra in the first half of 2020. And if they pull it off, Libra could become the standard digital currency around the world. Facebook describes Libra as being “powered by blockchain,” though it’s not clear why the…

Social Media Matt Novak Jun 18

Neo-Nazi Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison For Sharing Video of Mosque Massacre and Calling it ‘Awesome’

Philip Arps was sentenced in a New Zealand court today for sharing video of the Christchurch massacre, a terrorist attack on two mosques that killed 51 people on March 15. Arps, who has compared himself favorably to Adolf Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess, pleaded guilty to two counts of sharing the video and received a sentence…

Tech News Matt Novak Jun 18

HP Spectre x360 15 Review: A Slick Laptop That’s Nearly Ruined by One Stupid Mistake

US Solar Power Is Booming This Year Despite Trump’s Tariffs

This Snail-Inspired, Reusable Adhesive Is Far Stronger Than Velcro

Alex Kurtzman’s Plan for More Star Trek Than Ever Before: Keep It Varied

During the Ice Age, Long-Legged Hyenas Prowled the Arctic

Boaty McBoatface Just Helped Solve a Deep-Sea Mystery

Microsoft Is Considering a Dedicated Office Key for Keyboards—Here’s What It Should Do

Lawyer Gets 14 Years in Prison for Extorting Millions From Porn Pirates

Alphabet Squadron Is the Closest Thing to an X-Wing Book Star Wars Has Had in Years, and I Love It

Boeing Says It’s Open to Changing the Name of the 737 Max to Something That’s Not Associated With Plane Crashes

iOS 13 Will Remind You to Cancel Those Bloodsucking Subscriptions

Google Calendar Dies One Hour After Google Tweets About How Great It Is [Updated—It’s Back]

An Appreciation of the Postal Mailbox—and How Its Latest Design Diminishes the Magic of Mail

Robert Rodriguez Breaks Down How Much the Manga Inspired Alita: Battle Angel

Five Massive Screw-ups That Wouldn’t Have Happened If We All Just Used the Metric System

Meet the New King of Trilobites, R. rex

Iran Says It Will Begin Enriching Uranium Beyond Nuclear Deal Limits

Another Familiar Face Says They Could Be Back for the Next Ghostbusters

Facebook Announces Libra, Digital Currency on the Blockchain That Doesn’t Actually Need to Be on the Blockchain

Neo-Nazi Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison For Sharing Video of Mosque Massacre and Calling it ‘Awesome’

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