June 30, 2022 The Daring LightSail 2 Spacecraft Is Being Sucked Into Fiery Doom For the past three years, a tiny loaf-of-bread-sized spacecraft with gigantic wings has been sailing on sunbeams in low Earth orbit. LightSail 2 has…
June 30, 2022 Hisense Laser TVs got a Dolby Vision upgrade. Other projectors need the same TV and projector maker Hisense announced that its flagship line of L9G Laser TV projectors have received a free Dolby Vision upgrade. The upgrade…
June 30, 2022 Evan Rachel Wood on Her Perplexing New Westworld Character The marketing for Westworld season four made it clear that Evan Rachel Wood—whose formidable Host character, Dolores, was obliterated at the end of season…
June 30, 2022 We Should Be Banking Our Poop for Future Use, Scientists Argue Experts at Harvard and elsewhere are proposing a new type of bank be set up nationwide: a poop bank. In a paper this week,…
June 30, 2022 The Hardest Countries to Fly to From the US Right Now It’s been a bumpy couple of years for international travel, what with the global pandemic we’ve been living through, and while some countries have…
June 30, 2022 Coinbase Is Selling Data on Crypto and ‘Geotracking’ to ICE Coinbase Tracer, the analytics arm of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, has signed a contract with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement that would allow the…
June 30, 2022 Almost a quarter of the ocean floor is now mapped Roughly 25 percent (23.4 percent to be exact) of the Earth’s sea floor has been mapped, thanks to an international initiative known as Seabed…
June 30, 2022 Jesus Goddamn Christ, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Strange New Worlds has prided itself in its first season on a somewhat sense of ephemerality—that even at its direst of stakes, our enterprising…
June 30, 2022 Throw the Cutest House Party Ever With the Tamagotchi Pix Party Have you ever been annoyed with yourself for rushing out to buy something, knowing there’s an inevitable update around the corner? You might have…