Android News E-PAD: The Innovative New E-Ink Android Tabletgeeksaresexy.net - Geeks are Sexy As far as I’m concerned, nothing beats the feeling on writing on paper. Even if tablets and phone are pretty good at what they do nowaways, they …
Arsenic Arsenic in Some Bottled Water Brands at Unsafe Levels, Consumer Reports Saysconsumerreports.org - By Ryan Felton Natural foods grocery chain Whole Foods introduced its new brand of bottled water at a 2015 investor event, where company executives heralded the …
Andrew Garfield ‘Under the Silver Lake’ Is Turning Cinephiles Into Self-Styled Sleuthsindiewire.com - Michael Nordine David Robert Mitchell's bizarre neo-noir has led to a number of conspiracy theories, interpretations, and quests for meaning. Whether you’ve seen …
Hydrogen The hydrogen fuel strategy behind Nikola’s truck dreamArs Technica - Megan Geuss Water electrolysis, not methane reformation, will drive heavy-duty refueling plan. Ars makes every effort to cover its own travel costs. To attend …
Spider silk could be used to make robotic musclessciencefocus.com - Sara Rigby Spider silk’s newly-discovered ability to twist could provide new possibilities for robotic components. The findings could be used to build …
Empathy How Selective Empathy Can Chip Away At Civil Societykqed.org Militia leader Ammon Bundy, famous for leading an armed standoff in Oregon, had a tender moment in November of last year. He recorded a Facebook post …
Robotics Robot news presenter causes a stir on Russian TVBBC News - BBC WorldRussian state news channel Rossiya 24 has introduced a robot presenter for some of its bulletins. 'Alex' has already caused a stir, with some viewers complaining about his appearance and accusing him peddling
Sleep You’re Not Getting Enough Sleep—and It’s Killing YouWIRED - Emily Dreyfuss The whole world is exhausted. And it’s killing us. But particularly me. As I write this, I’m at TED 2019 in Vancouver, which is a weeklong marathon of …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoGDC How co-op VR is used to help train astronauts for spacegamasutra.com - Staff The tools of game development can be used to help train astronauts for their voyages to the edge of known space, and at GDC last year a panel of …
Auto Shows This little electric car is the coolest thing at the NY Auto ShowArs Technica - Jonathan M. Gitlin Genesis has to put its new concept electric car into production. As we detailed on Monday, this year's Shanghai auto show has been the place to be if …
Environment Six-decade plankton study charts rise of ocean plastic wasteThe Guardian - Jonathan WattsA trove of data showing when the Atlantic began choking with plastic has been uncovered in the handwritten logbooks of a little-known but doggedly persistent plankton study dating back to the middle of
U.S. Census Do You Earn Enough to Afford a House in the Largest U.S. Metros?howmuch.net - by Raul Owning a home is one of the biggest financial milestones. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that the homeownership rate nationwide is 64.8%, …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Weather Channel Knocked Off-Air in Dangerous Precedentthreatpost.com - Tara Seals The incident was the work of malicious cyberattackers.
David Attenborough David Attenborough Climate Change TV show a 'call to arms'bbc.co.uk Sir David Attenborough's new BBC documentary on climate change has been praised by TV critics.
Stephen King Rest Stop: Stephen King's Short Story Is Coming to the Big Screencomingsoon.net - By Kylie Hemmert Rest Stop: Stephen King’s short story is coming to the big screen Deadline is reporting that Stephen King’s short story Rest Stop is being developed …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoGeorge Lucas ‘The Mandalorian’ Actor Giancarlo Esposito Describes the New Technology Used on the ‘Star Wars’ Showcollider.com - Adam Chitwood …
Jean-Luc Picard ‘The Next Generation’ Veteran Jonathan Frakes to Direct Picard Series Episodes; Alison Pill and More to Castslashfilm.com - Hoai-Tran Bui 20 years later, one first officer of Star Trek: The Next Generation is getting promoted to captain for CBS All Access’ upcoming Jean-Luc Picard …
Thor Tessa Thompson Says ‘Thor 4’ Pitch Is To Have Taika Waititi Return to Directindiewire.com - Zack Sharf Waititi could become the first director to helm two standalone "Thor" movies. The upcoming “Avengers: Endgame” is set to say goodbye to longtime …
Tech Industry The Future of Wearable Tech Is Called a Hearing AidBloomberg When Brandon Sawalich started at Starkey Hearing Technologies in suburban Minneapolis, he was 19 and there were about 70 companies worldwide making …
Music Smart speakers: Why your voice is a major battle in musicBBC Culture - By Peter RubinsteinSmart speakers, those voice-activated devices that allow you to check the weather, play podcasts or order food delivery, are becoming more and more common in our homes. In the space of less than five brands
Anesthesia We finally know how general anesthesia worksfuturity.org - Marla Broadfoot-Duke In a new study,researchers found that to knock you out, different anesthesia drugs hijack the neural circuitry that makes you fall sleep. The …
What Would Really Happen if Thanos Erased Half of All Life on Earth?Gizmodo - Robin George Andrews Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past year, you’ll know that the end of Avengers: Infinity War was a rather bleak affair. To recap: …
Denmark Global attention span is narrowing and trends don't last as long, study revealsThe Guardian - Dream McClinton in New YorkIt’s just as you suspected; the information age has changed the general attention span. A recently published study from researchers at the Technical University of Denmark suggests the collective global
Planets TESS discovers its first Earth-sized planetmit.edu - Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered its first Earth-sized exoplanet. The planet, named HD 21749c, is the smallest …
Opinion (India) Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypseThe Guardian - George MonbiotHad we put as much effort into preventing environmental catastrophe as we’ve spent on making excuses for inaction, we would have solved it by now. Everywhere I look, I see people engaged in furious attempts
Long-form Journalism The Truth About DentistryThe Atlantic - Ferris JabrIt’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think. In the early 2000s Terry Mitchell’s dentist retired. For a while, Mitchell, an electrician in his 50s, stopped seeking
Source Code You can now download the source code for all Infocom text adventure classicsArs Technica - Samuel Axon Yes, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Zork are both included. The source code of every Infocom text adventure game has been uploaded to …
Science Newly Discovered Ancient Carnivore Was Bigger Than a Polar Bear and Is True Nightmare FuelGizmodo - George Dvorsky New research describes the remains of a gigantic, four-legged mammalian carnivore that terrorized Africa some 22 million years ago. The name of this …
