Geek The Age of Media Corporation Mega-Mergers Is Robbing Us of Bolder, Fresher Storytellingio9 - Alex Cranz Disney isn’t just the first studio to have five pictures cross a billion dollars at the box office in a single year and it isn’t just the biggest …
Mobile Technology How nanoparticles that harvest light could curb climate emissionsMIT Technology Review - James Temple Syzygy Plasmonics has raised nearly $6 million to produce a cleaner form of hydrogen, using a novel type of photocatalyst. Manufacturing chemicals …
Algae Algae-derived paper filters pathogens out of waternewatlas.com - Ben Coxworth Throughout the densely-populated country of Bangladesh, a lack of access to clean drinking water is responsible for a variety of debilitating and …
Geek Here Are Your Hugo 2019 Award Winnersio9 - James Whitbrook Last night one of the biggest events in genre writing, the Hugo Awards, awarded creators at the 77th World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin, …
Play buttonMinecraft Minecraft to get big lighting, shadow and color upgrades through Nvidia ray tracingTechCrunch - Darrell EtheringtonMinecraft is getting a free update that brings much-improved lighting and color to the game’s blocky graphics using real-time ray tracing running on Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics hardware. The new look a
Design How we’ll travel in 2050Fast Company - Suzanne LaBarreIf the aviation industry were a country, it would rank among the world’s top 10 emitters of carbon dioxide (CO₂). Aviation emissions have risen by 70% since 2005, and as demand increases in rich and poorer
Startups Rocket Lab successfully launches rideshare rocket with two experimental USAF satellites on boardTechCrunch - Darrell EtheringtonRocket Lab has successfully launched its eight mission, an Electron rocket rideshare flight carrying four satellites to orbit for various clients. The Electron launched from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex
Leadership I took an internship at 30, and it was the best move of my careerFast Company - Elizabeth SegranI won’t sugarcoat it: I was sometimes miserable. But the internship helped me break into my current job as a journalist. This story is part of Fast Company’s editorial package “The Intern Economy.” In
Comic Books Why The Eternals Could Change Everything We Know About the MCUcomicbook.com - Adam Barnhardt Avengers: Endgame has come and passed, leaving the team at Marvel Studios to open up a whole new world within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While …
Technology , A Digital Mortgage Disruptor, Raises $160 Million In Latest Funding RoundForbes - Elisabeth BrierBetter.com, an online mortgage website that promises faster and cheaper home buying, raised $160 million in its latest funding round, the company announced Monday. Activant Capital, a global private investment
Play buttonMinecraft Minecraft with ray tracing looks so good I might actually get into itTNW - Abhimanyu GhoshalDespite its immense popularity, I’ve never really cared for Minecraft – mostly because I’m not keen on crafting games, but also because I’m not into the low-fidelity art style that’s all large pixels flat
Kevin Smith Kevin Smith is making a He-Man series for Netflixgeeky-gadgets.com - Conner Flynn Netflix is working with Kevin Smith to create a limited He-Man anime series. It will be called Masters of the Universe: Revelation. Smith will be the …
Mobile Technology MIT experts find a way to reduce video stream buffering on busy WiFiEngadget - Georgina TorbetNo more fighting with your family over who gets to stream in HD. Is there anything more annoying that trying to watch a video on a slow internet connection shared with a bunch of other users? Skips, endless
Jaguar Land Rover ‘Tesla Killers’ Are Having A Really Hard Time Killing TeslaBloomberg - Colin Beresford Want the lowdown on European markets? In your inbox before the open, every day. Sign up here. It’s a trope that’s been around roughly as long as Elon …
Bentley Motors Pictorial: The Quail Motorsport Gathering 2019 hosts a raft of new car debutsnewatlas.com - Mike Hanlon It might not be the main event of Monterey Car Week, but "The Quail" is a world class event of significant gravitas, and the 6,000 tickets to the …
Plastic Researchers Just Found a Brilliant Way to Convert Plastic Waste Into Fuelglobalcitizen.org - By Erica Sanchez, Julie Ngalle and Joe McCarthy The method could buy companies some time as they invest in plastic alternatives. Plastic pollution is harming ecosystems around the world and the …
Marvel Comics Marvel refused to publish an essay from the 'Maus' author because of a Trump jokeMashable - Adam RosenbergMarvel Comics wants to steer clear of politics. Even in the introduction to an anthology spanning the period of time during and immediately after World War II. Marvel: The Golden Age 1939-1949 was originally
Geek This New Alien: Covenant Short Film Revisits the Scene of the Crimeio9 - Julie Muncy The two-year anniversary of Alien: Covenant coming to home release was a few days ago, and the official Alien Anthology YouTube account has surprised …
Tesla Roadster Drako's GTE electric supercar will be a four-motor, 1,200HP monsterEngadget - Jon FingasIt could go head-to-head with the most powerful cars on the planet. The new Tesla Roadster won't be the only wildly overpowered electric supercar arriving in the near future. Drako Motors (a startup created
Outdoors Gear The Lifesaver Jerrycan Is a Military-Grade Water Filter Everyone Should OwnFatherly - Cameron LeBlanc Who needs a state-of-the-art jug that can hold five gallons of water and filter it in an emergency? The better question is, who doesn't? In addition …
History Meet the Man Who Started the IlluminatiNational Geographic - Isabel HernándezHow did a Bavarian professor end up creating a group that would be at the center of two centuries of conspiracy theories? The 18th-century German thinker Adam Weishaupt would have been stunned if he had
Lifestyle Amazon Is Now Selling A 3-Bedroom Prefab Tiny Home That’s Practically All WindowsWomen's Health - By Elizabeth BacharachQuick! How many square feet is too many square feet to be considered a "tiny home?" That, my dear readers, is the question...that I've been asking myself since discovering this luxurious 774-square-foot
Science Protocells, Bombardment, Martian Erosion and Biofluorescencescientificamerican.com - Caleb A. Scharf Whatever else transpired at the time of life’s recognizable origins on Earth it seems likely that a critical step was the formation of cells – …
Books Magical Maps and Island Utopias: On G. Willow Wilson’s “The Bird King”lareviewofbooks.org - By Rachel Cordasco G. WILLOW WILSON’S latest novel, The Bird King, may be set in 15th-century Spain during the collapse of the last sultanate, but it is in reality a …
Technology Behind the wheel of VW’s electric dune buggy prototypeEngadget - Roberto BaldwinBringing driving back to the basics in the funnest package possible. Pebble Beach seems a bit too fancy for a dune buggy. But as I slowly roll down 17 Mile road behind the wheel of Volkswagen's latest
Supercars Drako unveils insanely powerful and expensive all-electric supercarElectrek - Fred LambertDrako Motors, a new Silicon Valley-based electric supercar manufacturer, has unveiled the Drako GTE, a limited-production all-electric supercar with insane specs and an even more insane price. The company
Science 30 Craziest Predictions About the Future Experts Say Are Going to Happenboredpanda.com - Livvy Melba The future! It’s either going to be really, really amazing, or really, really awful. Will we be commuting to work on flying bicycles on …
Technology Google‘s Area 120 Is Testing Fundo, a Crowdfunding Service for Creators (EXCLUSIVE)Variety - Janko Roettgers Google’s skunkworks lab Area 120 has been quietly testing an events-centric crowdfunding service for YouTubers, Variety has learned. Called Fundo, the …
Photosynthesis Discovery of a bottleneck relief in photosynthesis may have a major impact on food cropsphys.org Scientists have found how to relieve a bottleneck in the process by which plants transform sunlight into food, which may lead to an increase in crop …
Chemistry For The First Time Ever, Scientists Have Made a Stable Ring of Pure CarbonScienceAlert - Michelle Starr Carbon can be arranged in a number of configurations. When each of its atoms is bonded to three other carbon atoms, it's relatively soft graphite. …
