Instagram deployed a new tool today that should help it continue to build a more viable alternative to YouTube for individual creators looking to try a different platform. It’s a…

Since launching in the United States five years ago, SmartNews, the news aggregation app that recently hit unicorn status, has quietly built a reputation for presenting reliable information from a…

Microsoft today announced that Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), its Azure-based system for virtualizing the Windows and Office user experience it announced last September, is now generally available. Using WVD, enterprises…

With iOS 12 last year, Apple's big theme was stability. It's not like there were no new features, but the real draw was that older devices might run a little better. This time is, a little different. iOS 13 is heavier on the new additions, perhaps to the detriment of its overall stability.iOS goes darkThe…

TVs are getting smarter, with CPUs and AI assistants now proudly listed on spec sheets. Game consoles are now streaming boxes, and some streaming boxes want to be consoles. Multi-speaker setups have lost ground to high-tech soundbars that fake the same effect. And just as our consoles, media and internet connections have caught up with…

At the height of the Soviet Union, just 30 in every 1,000 Soviet citizens owned a car. Even the scrappiest lemons cost a fortune, so instead of driving to work, lots of people took the subway—which, turns out, was a bit more glamorous than you might imagine.Chris Herwig rode the rails for his new book Soviet Metro…

First off, yes, talk of the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry into President Trump dominated the news last week, so we'll be going into that in short order. (Though, we didn't have space to get into Rudy Giuliani’s amazing interview in The Atlantic so we'll just leave this link here.) But that whole Ukraine thing…

It was an airplane week. People tried to figure out how to make them quieter; others wrangled those abandoned by a corporate collapse. (Rule, Britannia!) Some thought critically about the way the US handles air traffic control, especially as drones become more of a thing. Others—well, the highly trained investigators at the NTSB—worked to remedy…

The Whistle Go Explore and other pet trackers let you know if your dog gets loose with app-based geofencing. But if you live in an area with spotty Wi-Fi, or near wild animals, you may have already considered an electric fence of some kind. SpotOn uses GPS signals to let you set a fence for…

"Guys are so clueless," Canadian teen Caroline Majcher says in a TikTok video. "They had no idea that girls eat their tampon after they're done with it to reabsorb all the blood they just lost." Her audience echoed her shock: "lmao they thought we just threw them away?? waste of blood 🙄" one comment reads.…