Cats were always a fact of life growing up, and when I moved out, I adopted a couple of my own. Home just didn’t feel like home without an adorable little kitty throwing up hair ties on my bed at 3 am. Cats are great and I love them. No, really. I have dozens of…

Photograph: MisfitBest for TraditionalistsMisfit CommandSometimes, you don't want a digital screen on your wrist. If you much prefer the traditional stylings of analog watches (or maybe you just want to expand your smartwatch collection), I'd recommend the Misfit Command. It comes in 44- or 45-mm case sizes in a myriad of colors and straps, and…

Imagine you’re browsing the web one day, following a trail of mindless clicks, and you wind up on a website that’s showing footage of a bedroom. There’s someone in it: a man organizing laundry, going about his day, seemingly unaware that you can see him. Don’t worry, the site explains, this man (let’s call him…

Ah, the Super Bowl, a bonanza of overeating and watching men brutalize each other (brain health be damned), punctuated by 30-second reminders to spend money. This weekend the spectacle will play out at Hard Rock Stadium, a lovely open-air structure mere miles from Miami Beach, which is disappearing into the sea.But I’m being negative. Here’s…

The setup should sound familiar. Our hero is a huge, blond Nordic warrior. Weapon-wise, he favors sledgehammers and lightning; emotion-wise, uninterrogated goodness. His younger brother’s an inveterate prankster. The bad guys are a family named Jutul, which is one letter away from the Norwegian word for “giant.” Except this time, you won’t find capes or…

In October, Google celebrated a breakthrough that CEO Sundar Pichai likened to the Wright brothers’ first flight. Company researchers in Santa Barbara, California, 300 miles from the Googleplex, had achieved quantum supremacy—the moment that a quantum computer performs a calculation impossible for any conventional computer.That was both notable science and a chance for Google to…

Friday, January 31, 2020. By Tom Toro, with cartooncollections.com. All those fathers out there posting about #dadlife on social media are changing the face of fatherhood. Thursday, January 30, 2020. By Lars Kenseth, with cartooncollections.com. Or you could just use a password manager and never ask your kids to log into things for you again.…

Hey hey, sports fans (and non-sports-fans)! The Super Bowl is just two days away, which means just one thing: commercials! Well, two things: commercials and football! (And Jennifer Lopez!) Anyway. Surely some of you are excited to see the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs head to Miami to battle it out in…

This story is part of a series on parenting—from surveilling our teens to helping our kids navigate fake news and misinformation.Twice last year I thought my children were about to die. The first episode took place one night in February. My 2-year-old daughter had been a little fussy before bed, but she wasn’t sick. In…