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Given they’re just toys, Nerf’s blasters aren’t really known for accuracy. The best approach has always been to just send as many darts as possible at your target to improve your chances of hitting it. But with Nerf’s new Accustrike line, precision, patience, and aiming are finally the better approach. So what makes the Accustrike…
Microsoft Word is a beloved application used by typists all over the world. The program is packed with with all kinds of features, many of which you might never come across when you’re typing up a report, short story, essay, or whatever else you might be working on. To help you uncover some of the…
Twitter is in trouble, maybe. The company has been struggling with its harassment policy for quite a while now, is getting sued for not being popular enough, and also wants to be sold. This cake is a beautiful portrait of the company’s current state—imperfect yet somehow still alluring. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff—a potential bidder—called the…
After gazing long into the abyss that is our daily lives, Google finally found the abyss gazing back this week when a Reddit user snapped a picture of a Street View car following “an unexpected error.” https://gizmodo.com/google-car-captures-guys-awful-day-at-work-for-all-eter-1786032702 “I was so stoked to see the Google car that I whipped my phone out,” wrote Nurse-Patches on…
These traditional Chinese Suomian noodles have been made in Nanshan Village for over 300 years, and supposedly there are only 300 people left in the world who know how to make them. That’s because the process of making these noodles is a little bit more unique than making your typical noodles—it can sometimes look more…
Last night, Verizon leaked the Pixel, ostensibly by accident, listing Google Magic as one of the phone’s primary features. Today, Google announced the Pixel and a host of other products, but the company didn’t say anything about Google Magic. Verizon also removed “Google Magic” from the Pixel specs on its business site, where it was…
Last week, we put out a call for iPhone 7 users to tell us what problems they’re experiencing with their phones. Although Bluetooth complaints were the most common, we’ve heard from dozens of Verizon users who are having issues with their new phones dropping LTE signal and GPS. A few things are happening, but all…
Anything looks cooler in macro. Setting stuff on fire with a blowtorch is rad, for obvious reasons. And even in death, the humble crayon manages to fill us with child-like joy. Namaste.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks we are now living in an “artificial intelligence-first world.” He’s probably right. Artificial intelligence is all the rage in Silicon Valley these days, as technology companies race to build the first killer app that utilizes machine learning and image recognition. Today, Google announced an AI-powered assistant built into its new…
We tend to think of coral reefs as luminous, undersea jungles that pepper the shallow, scuba-friendly tropics. But deeper down, in a region about as bright as Pluto on a sunny day, there lie vast reef ecosystems unknown to science. Richard Pyle, a zoologist at the Bishop Museum, has spent the last twenty years surveying…
The hardware in Google’s latest phone, developed in house and using parts from flagging former flagship HTC, doesn’t look from the outside like a revolution. It is a 5-inch phone (or 5.5-inch for $100 more) with an 821 Snapdragon processor, a 1440 x 2560 display, up to 128GB of storage, and a fingerprint reader on…
The much hyped Google gadget event has come and gone, and left us with an impressive haul of new gear. Here’s the coolest stuff from today’s keynote. 1) Pixel is way more than just a new Nexus The Pixel and the Pixel XL are NOT Nexus devices. They were designed by Google to be a…
As soon as Google announced its new Home device last spring, everyone (including this blog) was quick to call it an Amazon Echo Killer. But since then, the Echo’s gained some new powers. So how do the two gadgets stack up in a head-to-head spec battle? Pretty evenly—except for the price. Let’s start with the…
Meet Gimbalninja. He’s a crazy athletic cameraman who somehow pulls off the same extreme stunts that the people he’s filming are doing—while filming them. This means he runs around doing parkour off structures and holding a camera mounted onto a gimbal rig all while he’s chasing down the other stuntpeople for the perfect shot. This…
By combining archaeology with 3D computer modeling, European researchers have digitally reconstructed a house in Pompeii, showing how lavish and colorful these structures truly were before they were destroyed by a catastrophic volcanic eruption. When we try to conjure images of the ancient city of Pompeii, we often think about the stark and tortured casts…
Google just announced more details about Home, the company’s sleek-looking Amazon Echo competitor. Namely, we learned about the price: $130 per device. That’s $50 cheaper than an Echo. The design is sleek and small—and almost identical to the images we saw in the spring. The device packs an always-on microphone that’s activated when you say…
Yahoo built software to secretly scan its users emails at the behest of U.S intelligence officials, according to a report by Reuters. From Reuters: The company complied with a classified U.S. government directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said two former employees…
Google has sold more than 30 million Chromecasts for the simple reason that it’s a super easy, super cheap way to get the stuff you’re watching on your computer or your phone onto your TV. Now it’s getting an upgrade for the TVs of tomorrow. The new Chromecast Ultra isn’t a necessary upgrade for anyone,…
After years of leading the way on cheap virtual reality, Google finally has a headset of its own. The search giant announced its first Daydream-ready VR headset—Daydream View—which is essentially a $79 headset that turns your Google Phone into a virtual reality dream. Google first announced its new mobile VR platform called Daydream back at…
Google just announced its new Pixel phones. And they seem cool! But there’s one small problem: the phones are exclusive to Verizon. https://gizmodo.com/googles-pixel-phones-everything-you-need-to-know-1787381364 Google’s new phones were starting to look pretty badass, but exclusivity to one carrier in the US might make them dead in the water. If you’re outside of the United States, here’s…
