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The US. Consumer Product Safety Commission has officially recalled 1 million Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones at risk of exploding. Last week, the CPSC said it was working with Samsung to recall phones and urged all Galaxy Note 7 owners to shut the phones off and cease using them. That notice came a week after…
As the election looms, Obama’s plan to save the planet kicks into high gear. Last month, POTUS vastly expanded Hawaii’s Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, turning it into the world’s largest marine protected area. Today, speaking at the State Department’s Our Oceans conference, he unveiled the first Marine National Monument in the Atlantic, which has been…
Presidential debate season is upon us, and in our Age of Social Media™ that means your voice will be heard. Well, sort of. Facebook is helping source questions from average people, for better and for worse. The second presidential debate on October 9th is the “town hall” style debate, which has a long history as…
You’ve probably seen slackliners at the park, balancing a few feet above the ground on a thin strap strung between a pair of trees. Highlining is the same idea, except Hayley Ashburn walked over 170 feet between mountain peaks, over 9,000 feet above the ground. Why would someone do this? For starters, the view is…
Mara McInerney was visiting a Sunglass Hut at the Freehold Raceway Mall in New Jersey on Sunday, just minding her own business, when everything went terribly, horribly wrong. NBC New York reports that McInerney’s vape—which the accompanying NBC video suggests is a pink KangerTech model—was chilling in her Louis Vuitton handbag, which she says she…
For the past week, we’ve been waiting for Alphabet’s Project Wing to begin its bold burrito initiative: delivering tortilla-wrapped goodness by drone. Now, Alphabet and Chipotle have started testing the service at Virginia Tech and onsite reporters are tweeting their impressions. Most of it is as you’d expected. There’s a drone, and it’s delivering burritos.…
Monoprice has always been known for making cheap, high-quality gear. But now the company is taking that approach to higher-end audio products with its new Monolith line. Monoprice recently showed off the line of gear at the CEDIA show in Dallas. The coolest items might just be the two new pairs of super-affordable planar magnetic…
Paleontologists working on an island off the coast of California’s Ventura County have discovered a strange mammoth skull that exhibits features never seen before in the extinct elephantine creatures. Not too big and not too small, this skull could represent a transitional species. The skull was found in an eroding stream bank on Santa Rosa…
The headphone jack had to die, and Apple fans have known the 7 was going to ditch the 3.5mm port well in advance of the official announcement. That hasn’t stopped lots of people from being mad about it—and a few others from finding a quick and dirty solution. Earlier today, Redditor DungJohnson posted images of…
Last week, strange images of a river that had turned blood red emerged out of Russia. Now satellite images show that the red waters run much further through the area—and it’s been happening for decades. NASA’s Earth Observatory just released pictures that show the river waters in Norilsk, Russia running red far around a local…
Horseshoe crabs are known as “living fossils” and for good reason. The blue-blooded, side-walking arthropods have been around for 200 million years, surviving the last five mass extinctions. But something appears to be wrong as hundreds of dead horseshoe crabs have recently washed ashore in southern Japan, leaving scientists confounded. One population of horseshoe crabs,…
Apple decided to go all-in on Messages in iOS 10, fully embracing its inner Facebook Messenger and replacing simplicity with stickers and disappearing text effects. Messages used to be a really simple app to use. You could add a photo or send an emoji, sure, but that was about it. If you wanted to send…
Some acquire greatness through intellect or unbridled creativity. But Diego the tortoise sexed his way into legend. Diego, 100, is a rare breed of tortoise called Chelonoidis hoodensis. These animals are so rare that they only exist on one of the oldest islands in the Galápagos. In 1976, when Diego was living at the San…
Elon Musk doesn’t seem like somebody whose shoes you’d want to be in lately—he’s had a number of terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days—but one oil executive allegedly tried to make it happen anyway. According to a lawsuit filed by Tesla Motors on Wednesday, Todd Katz, the chief financial officer for an oil and…
Android is known for easy to customize and personalize. The best part is, if you’re prepared to dig deeper, you’ll find a goldmine of hidden features and settings that can improve your mobile experience. Here are four of our favorites you can uncover in the most recent versions of the OS. 1) Boost gaming performance…
Mobileye is breaking up with Tesla. The Israel-based company helps Tesla build its Autopilot driver assistance systems, but on Thursday, the company’s chairman said Tesla was “pushing the envelope in terms of safety” and discontinued its relationship with the automaker. In an interview with Reuters, Mobileye chairman and CTO Amnon Shashua said, “[Autopilot] is not…
Forgotten Weapons sees a lot of odd firearms, from a machine gun that Italian troops would mount to bicycles to Uzis that look like horseshoes. But the Frankenau purse gun takes the cake for pure strangeness. One side of the purse is functional and can hold coins. The other houses a five-shot pinfire revolver with…
We were impressed with how InFocus managed to cram a half-decent computer into its Kangaroo mini PC that’s no larger than a paperback novel. But we’re still trying to wrap our heads around the company’s latest creation: a laptop dock that lets you swap in even tinier Windows 10 PC modules. In the same way…
Sleep Number designed a new adjustable mattress called the ‘it bed’ that arrives in an easily maneuvered cardboard box.
Researchers from Bristol University have reconstructed the color patterns of a Cretaceous-era Psittacosaurus, revealing not just its colors and distinct shading patterns, but also clues about the life and environment in which this extinct dinosaur lived. In a new study published in Current Biology, Bristol paleontologists Jakob Vinther and Innes Cuthill show that the extinct…
