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Can We Put Coal Miners Back to Work in Clean Energy?

In August 2016, fewer coal miners were employed in the US than anytime in modern history: just 48,600. A year later, little more than 50,000 miners are working, but the industry is still in dire straits—layoffs and mine shutdowns have led to rampant unemployment in West Virginia, Kentucky and Montana. President Trump has taken credit…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

Galaxy Note 8 Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know

After the literal garbage fire that was the Galaxy Note 7, Samsung’s upcoming flagship phablet needs to be more than just a big Galaxy S8 with a stylus. So before Samsung officially unveils the Galaxy Note 8 on August 23, we’re going to run through all the rumors and speculation to see if the Note…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

The Largest ‘Dead Zone’ Ever Has Been Recorded off the Coast of Louisiana

A recent expedition to the Gulf of Mexico has yielded the largest “dead zone” ever recorded in the area. Measuring 8,776 square miles, this massive patch of oxygen depleted water is wreaking havoc on the Gulf’s marine life—a consequence of unchecked agricultural runoff pouring down from the Mississippi River. Dead zones appear in the Gulf…

Tech News George Dvorsky

We’ve Run Out of Beer Names and AI Is Here to Help

Craft brewers are running out of beer names. NPR reports that companies are having to compromise over shared a name, or getting in Twitter fights over them. Even lawyers are settling spats over imagery, or hop puns like Hopscotch and Bitter End. So, rather than relying on our boring human brains, why not use artificial…

Artificial Intelligence Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Samsung Is Keeping the Joy of Flip Phones Alive

Nowadays, the only people still using flip phones are octogenarians who can’t handle all the newfangled tech out there. But this flip phone might just be too cool for grandma. There’s something inexplicably attractive about a flip phone, whether it’s being able to hang up a call by slamming it shut, or being able to…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

The Alt-Right Goes Panhandling

When all digital spaces are controlled by liberal snowflakes, how’s a guy supposed to earn a living promoting hate online? Three new crowdfunding sites think they have the answer. While leading figures of the alt-right (and alt-lite) have access to wealthy benefactors like the Mercer family, the income streams of the movement’s B-listers are remarkably…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Will America’s Epic Eclipse Impact Our Electric Grid?

For about three hours on August 21st, power grid operators across the United States will be confronted with a sudden drop in available electricity, owing to the first coast-to-coast solar eclipse in nearly a century. Power disruptions are not expected, but only because measures are being taken to make up for the sudden energy shortfall.…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Game of Thrones Star Says She Got Acting Role Because She Has Millions of Social Media Followers

Sophie Turner, best known as Sansa Stark in the hit HBO show Game of Thrones, has a lot of followers on social media. And according to Turner, producers take that kind of thing into consideration when casting different projects. In fact, Turner says that she only got a recent acting gig because she has a…

Tech News Matt Novak

Scaramucci Is Hosting an Online Event Because America Hasn’t Seen the Last of The Mooch [Update: We Regret To Inform You That The Mooch Cancelled The Event To Spend More Time With His Family Which Is Probably For The Best If You Heard About The Fact That He Missed His Kid’s Birth To Spend Time With Trump]

Anthony “the Mooch” Scaramucci may have lasted just 10 days in the White House before getting booted, but America hasn’t gotten rid of him. The widely ridiculed Trump regime official says he plans to host an online event on Friday. Because Scaramucci clearly isn’t ready to give up the limelight just yet. As CNN reports,…

Tech News Matt Novak

Jaden Smith’s Recyclable Water Box Startup Is Suing Sketchy Mayo Startup Hampton Creek Over a Font

Jaden Smith, co-founder of boxed water startup Just Good Inc., has launched a legal war with another startup selling mayonnaise. According to Bloomberg, Smith’s company which sells water in recyclable cartons has filed suit against Hampton Creek, claiming the latter company violated a trademark agreement established in 2014. Hampton Creek markets itself as a science-driven…

Tech News Tom McKay

God Help Us All, Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired Hillary Clinton’s Chief Strategist

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly claims he is not preparing to run for president, despite the fact he has spent an awful lot of time traveling around the country in an effort to understand the little people. So news from Politico that Zuckerberg has secured the services of Democratic pollster Joel Benenson, one of Barack…

Tech News Tom McKay

Trump’s Pick For USDA Chief Scientist Isn’t a Scientist, But He Is a Self-Declared Expert on ‘Race Traitors’

Sam Clovis, the climate-change-denying Iowa business professor with no formal scientific qualifications President Donald Trump has nominated to serve as chief scientist at the Dept. of Agriculture, should maybe have been a little more judicious about his blogging habits. CNN’s KFile dug up a number of blog posts written as recently as 2011 to 2012…

Tech News Tom McKay

Yup, Verizon and AT&T Are a Lot Slower After Adding Unlimited Plans

The verdict is in: Verizon and AT&T have screwed the pooch on their rollouts of unlimited data plans. Verizon was the biggest loser according to a new study, with a 2 Mbps drop in its average download speed. T-Mobile ate everyone else’s lunch and its clown of a CEO is being just as annoying as…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Police Commissioner to Baltimore Cops: Please Don’t Use Body Cams to Falsify Evidence

On Tuesday, the Baltimore Public Defender’s Office released footage it says shows officers planting drugs and staging their discovery for body cameras, the second such video to be released in the last two weeks. Prosecutors have now dropped more than 40 felony cases that relied on testimony from the officers seen in the videos. In…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

This Trigger-Happy Glove Lets You Simulate Machine Gun Fire, But How Is It Legal?

The AutoGlove, scheduled to enter production next month, bills itself as a mechanism that allows for “full-auto fire without ATF approval, tax stamp or firearm modifications.” Powered by a battery pack that can be attached to a user’s arm or body, the device looks like a military-inspired Power Glove and is designed to fire a…

Gadgets Rhett Jones

That HBO Game of Thrones Hack Was Worse Than We Thought

Well, this isn’t terribly surprising. According to the latest dispatch from Variety, the hackers who broke into HBO’s servers and stole 1.5 terabytes of data, including at least one Game of Thrones script, also stole employee data. More specifically, the hackers made off with “thousands of Home Box Office (HBO) internal company documents.” That’s bad.…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Clever Camera App Uses Deep Learning to Perfectly Retouch Your Photos Before You Take Them

Professional photographers often spend hours painstakingly perfecting their images in Lightroom and Photoshop before sharing them with the world. But researchers at MIT are promising similar results generated so quickly that your smartphone can correct and retouch a photo before you’ve even taken it. As with many image-processing breakthroughs we’ve seen over the past few…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

NASA Isn’t Hiring Someone to Stop an Alien Invasion, You Jabronis

These days, reading anything (e.g. the news) feels like squeezing your head into a Juicero. Just when I thought we had hit the apex of bad reporting and general dystopia, today, several outlets ran stories about NASA hiring someone “to defend Earth from aliens.” It quickly skyrocketed to become the top story on Facebook news,…

Tech News Rae Paoletta

What’s Your Favorite Extinct Epcot Song?

When I was a kid in the 1990s I’d listen to the Epcot soundtrack on repeat. It had so many amazing songs that would instantly hit all the nostalgia centers of my brain, even if this particular brand of nostalgia was for something as recent as my last trip to Epcot from a year earlier.…

Tech News Matt Novak

Tiny Spider Appears to Have Sailed Across an Entire Ocean

Spiders in the family Migidae don’t get out much. Known as “tree trapdoor spiders,” they are unapologetic homebodies, spending nearly their entire lives chilling in a single burrow. Unlike their close, but much more famous relatives the tarantulas, tree trapdoor spiders are teeny, with most species small enough to fit on a fingernail. Just a…

Tech News Jake Buehler

Can We Put Coal Miners Back to Work in Clean Energy?

Galaxy Note 8 Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know

The Largest ‘Dead Zone’ Ever Has Been Recorded off the Coast of Louisiana

We’ve Run Out of Beer Names and AI Is Here to Help

Samsung Is Keeping the Joy of Flip Phones Alive

The Alt-Right Goes Panhandling

Will America’s Epic Eclipse Impact Our Electric Grid?

Game of Thrones Star Says She Got Acting Role Because She Has Millions of Social Media Followers

Jaden Smith’s Recyclable Water Box Startup Is Suing Sketchy Mayo Startup Hampton Creek Over a Font

God Help Us All, Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired Hillary Clinton’s Chief Strategist

Trump’s Pick For USDA Chief Scientist Isn’t a Scientist, But He Is a Self-Declared Expert on ‘Race Traitors’

Yup, Verizon and AT&T Are a Lot Slower After Adding Unlimited Plans

Police Commissioner to Baltimore Cops: Please Don’t Use Body Cams to Falsify Evidence

This Trigger-Happy Glove Lets You Simulate Machine Gun Fire, But How Is It Legal?

That HBO Game of Thrones Hack Was Worse Than We Thought

Clever Camera App Uses Deep Learning to Perfectly Retouch Your Photos Before You Take Them

NASA Isn’t Hiring Someone to Stop an Alien Invasion, You Jabronis

What’s Your Favorite Extinct Epcot Song?

Tiny Spider Appears to Have Sailed Across an Entire Ocean

JBL Authentics 500 Retro-Style Home Speaker Hits 40% Off, Now at Its Lowest Price as Amazon’s Spring Sale Clearance Begins

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You Too Will Learn to Fear the XenoFrog

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Artemis 2 by the Numbers: Breaking Down NASA’s Big Return to the Moon

Apple Removes iPhone Vibe Coding App from App Store

China’s Biggest Social Media Celebrity Is… Kris Jenner?

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MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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