Laptops usually come in one of two flavors: 13-inch for portability or 15-inch for horsepower. Simple. Easy-peasy. Occasionally though, a manufacturer makes a laptop outside of that binary. Sometimes they're itty-bitty 12-inch ultrabooks, designed to slip into manila envelopes (our favorite laptops). This time, pendulum has swung the other direction, yielding the Razer Blade Pro,…

It’s been a week where people got very upset about the prospect of Spider-Man not appearing in any more Marvel movies but slightly less so about the fires in the Amazon rainforest. It’s also been a week where Taylor Swift put out a new album while announcing a plan to re-record her back catalog so…

Bugatti's $8.9 million Centodieci, an homage to the 1991 EB110, produces an excessive 1,600 horsepower.BugattiBugatti's $8.9 million Centodieci, an homage to the 1991 EB110, produces an excessive 1,600 horsepower.BugattiFaster, pricier, sandier: This week was an exercise in seeing how far the people building and driving vehicles might go. We took close looks at the new…

Cold-brewed coffee, if made right, is simply divine. Sadly, it almost always tastes better at the coffee shop or from a bottle. That's because brewing it at home can be incredibly tricky. I've read many guides that recommend different makers, methods, coffee grounds, water ratios, brew times, and temperatures.In my quest to make better coffee,…

The battery is the most important component in your smartphone, because if the battery isn't working, nothing else can. With the right sort of care and attention, you can make sure your battery stays charged for longer—and lasts longer overall, as well.There is good news, which is the lithium-ion batteries inside today's phones are more…

Kyle Dent is a Research Area Manager for PARC, a Xerox Company, focused on the interplay between people and technology. He also leads the ethics review committee at PARC. Artificial intelligence is…

This pair of galaxies colliding together is called UGC 2369. The brown bridge of dust and gas that lock together like fingers show their gravitational interaction. Galaxy interminglings like this fundamentally reshape each object, and like it or not, it’s our turn next. The Milky Way are due for our own galactic interaction with nearby…

Cryptocurrencies are a religion as much as they are a technology. They almost have to be, given their adherents’ gargantuan ambition of fundamentally changing how the world works. This means…

Hey. This is Week-in-Review, where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on…