Tech News

Why Did This Company Let Me Fly a $2 Million Aircraft?

Somewhere over the Hamptons, the pilot told me to take the controls. To my left, there was a joystick, roughly the same size and dimension as my favorite ‘90s arcade game, After Burner. I clutched it, pulled back, and felt the jet climb. “Now try to stay inside the boxes,” the pilot said, pointing at…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Alphabet Just Unloaded Its Crazy Robots on Japanese Telecom Softbank

Three years after acquiring the MIT robotics lab Boston Dynamics, makers of Atlas and other scary bots, Alphabet (Google’s parent company) is selling it off to Softbank, a Japanese telecommunications company already known for its less terrifying robots like Pepper that might soon be getting some impressive upgrades. It turns out that posting YouTube videos…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Taylor Swift Returns to Spotify Because She’s Rich Enough Now

What do you do when you finally have everything? If you’re Taylor Swift, you give a little something back. And take a swing at Katy Perry, of course. To celebrate her album 1989 selling over 10 million copies, the 27-year-old pop singer announced last nightthat she would let fans stream her old albums on apps…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Who Does This Self-Driving Cadillac CT6 Belong To?

An anonymous tipster shared a photo of a Cadillac CT6, outfitted with autonomous driving sensors and scanners, which they spotted parked in Pittsburgh yesterday. Pittsburgh has become a hub of the self-driving tech scene because of its proximity to Carnegie Mellon University and its renowned robotics program, as well as the state’s relatively lax rules…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski and Kate Conger

Jobs Site Accidentally Places Ad on White Nationalist Podcast

If you did something silly today—like publicly revealing you were looking at hentai, for example—take comfort. You still did not fuck up as bad as the jobs website ZipRecruiter, which got ad time on an alt-right podcast this week, apparently by accident. As first noted on Reddit, the advertisement was read on Wednesday’s episode of…

Tech News Libby Watson

Look at This Crazy Brain Cyst

A 27-year-old man had been suffering frequent headaches and had been falling over frequently for around three years. But when he had a seizure, he headed to the emergency department. They took an MRI and found THIS. If you need to get your bearings, the squished brain looking stuff is a squished brain. The black…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Uber’s Self-Driving Unit Gets New Head of Hardware After Levandowski Firing

Little more than a week after Uber dismissed the embattled engineer at the helm of its self-driving car project, the company is appointing a new head of hardware engineering to help lead its development of autonomous vehicles. Brian Zajac has worked at Uber since the early stages of its autonomous vehicle development in 2015, and…

Tech News Kate Conger

Newsweek Writer: I’m Not Horny, I’m Just Researching Tentacle Porn for My Wife

What we know to be true: Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald had a 212-page hentai comic called B-Chiku open on his computer. We know this because Eichenwald accidentally left the tab open while tweeting a photo of his computer screen in an unrelated attempt to bark down an anti-semitic troll. While enjoying such reading material…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Evidence of Pangea’s Breakup Found in Our Evolutionary History

Continents’ constant shifting is one of the first things you learn when you study the geologic history of Earth. South America fits into Africa like a puzzle piece, after all. Back 200 million years ago, everything was combined in a supercontinent called Pangea. Rocks alone seem to show that the breakup happened 180 million years…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Pufferfish Have Some Very Intricate Sex Rituals

Many animals’ mating rituals can be pretty elaborate, and some are borderline disturbing. For pufferfish, the lead up is so stupidly intricate that it’s exhausting and just kind of sad. But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be appreciated, so today, in honor of World Oceans Day, we’re celebrating the indefatigable pufferfish and its bizarre sexual…

Tech News Rae Paoletta

This 3,000-Year-Old Copper Mask Is Rewriting South American History

A square-shaped copper mask pulled from a tomb in the southern Andes is resetting our notions of where and when sophisticated metallurgy first appeared in pre-Hispanic South America. Archaeological evidence suggests that metallurgy in pre-Columbian America first appeared in the Andes, with Peru being the likely point of origin. But as a new study published…

Tech News George Dvorsky

This Beautiful Short Film Recreates the Moon Landing Using Thousands of NASA Photos

There’s no shortage of archival film footage of the moon landing—arguably one of humanity’s greatest achievements. But graphic designer Christian Stangl didn’t use any of it to create this short film. Instead, Lunar was created by animating thousands of still photos taken from NASA’s Apollo archives. The process involved assembling multiple photos to create wider…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Can Fetuses Recognize Faces When They’re Still in the Womb? [Updated]

We don’t remember what it was like to be a fetus. We don’t remember what we heard or smelled, and we certainly don’t remember what we saw. So fetuses, their development, and their experiences are a natural curiosity. When and how do fetuses start taking part in the human experience? Can they recognize faces from…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Mr. President, Now Is the Time to Tweet

Former FBI director James Comey has been testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee for over an hour. Twitter is aflame with reporters tweeting quotes and idiots telling jokes. It is hot, hot, hot. But it is not enough. Washington Post reporter Robert Costa reported on Tuesday that President Trump might “live tweet if he feels…

Tech News Libby Watson

Digital Footprints Paint an Eerily Accurate Picture of Europe’s Refugees

Using search data collected by Google, researchers at the Pew Research Center have reconstructed the journeys taken by refugees flowing into Europe from the Middle East. It represents a new way of tracking migration patterns—but the technique could eventually lead to misuse. In 2015 and 2016, some 2.5 million refugees left Syria and Iraq in…

Tech News George Dvorsky

You Probably Don’t Know All the Ways Facebook Tracks You

We’re all aware of the deal we make when we sign up with Facebook: we get somewhere to post vacation photos and stalk friends, and Mark Zuckerberg gets to sell your passion for fishing trips to fishing equipment retailers. What you might not realize is how deep or extensive the tracking goes—so let’s shed some…

Gadgets David Nield

Apple Sure Has Some Weird New Hobbies

Forget the HomePod or the latest version of iOS. The big news out of WWDC was related to something that Apple, and most consumers, don’t really care about: Virtual Reality. In between Kaby Lake refreshes and Siri voice demos, Tim Cook announced a wide range of software and hardware changes that will finally bring VR…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Fired FBI Director James Comey Reports to the Senate About Trump

Fired FBI Director James Comey arrived on Capitol Hill Thursday to deliver what’s been billed as the most highly anticipated congressional testimony in history and that’s hardly an embellishment. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-watch-james-comeys-testimony-about-president-tru-1795893347 Much of what Comey has to say is described in his written testimony: President Trump urged him to kill an investigation into the conduct of…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Brazen Thief Uses Backhoe in Attempted ATM Burglary

Here’s the thing about ATMs: The machines are designed to take a pretty severe beating and still leave the box of cash out of a would-be thief’s reach. A Maryland man recently learned this lesson the hard way when he stole a backhoe, drove it five miles, and then attempted to excavate some cash out…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

How to Watch James Comey’s Testimony About President Trump, No Cable Required

President Trump fired James Comey as FBI Director on May 9th. Ever since, the American people have been wondering what Comey knows about the Trump regime and its possible collusion with Russia. Today we finally get some answers. And thankfully there are a lot of ways to watch online. Comey’s testimony to the Senate Intelligence…

Social Media Matt Novak

Why Did This Company Let Me Fly a $2 Million Aircraft?

Alphabet Just Unloaded Its Crazy Robots on Japanese Telecom Softbank

Taylor Swift Returns to Spotify Because She’s Rich Enough Now

Who Does This Self-Driving Cadillac CT6 Belong To?

Jobs Site Accidentally Places Ad on White Nationalist Podcast

Look at This Crazy Brain Cyst

Uber’s Self-Driving Unit Gets New Head of Hardware After Levandowski Firing

Newsweek Writer: I’m Not Horny, I’m Just Researching Tentacle Porn for My Wife

Evidence of Pangea’s Breakup Found in Our Evolutionary History

Pufferfish Have Some Very Intricate Sex Rituals

This 3,000-Year-Old Copper Mask Is Rewriting South American History

This Beautiful Short Film Recreates the Moon Landing Using Thousands of NASA Photos

Can Fetuses Recognize Faces When They’re Still in the Womb? [Updated]

Mr. President, Now Is the Time to Tweet

Digital Footprints Paint an Eerily Accurate Picture of Europe’s Refugees

You Probably Don’t Know All the Ways Facebook Tracks You

Apple Sure Has Some Weird New Hobbies

Fired FBI Director James Comey Reports to the Senate About Trump

Brazen Thief Uses Backhoe in Attempted ATM Burglary

How to Watch James Comey’s Testimony About President Trump, No Cable Required

‘Supergirl’ Will Feature David Corenswet’s Superman in a Sort of Big Brother Role

Report: FDA Set to Unban RFK Jr.’s Favorite Peptides

Source Code for Anthropic’s Claude Code Leaks at the Exact Wrong Time

SpaceX Starlink Satellite Malfunctions, Breaks Apart in Orbit

‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Stinks

‘Scream 4’ Is Back, and on Tape

Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

Amazon Clears Out Netflix-Licensed Nebula Capsule 3 Mini Projector at 32% Off, Dolby Audio Home Theater for Less

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

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

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Let us help find what you are looking for...