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…
The next step? Remapping Europe.Apple is officially done rebuilding its maps in the USApple Maps didn't launch with success. Comparatively skeletal, its competition did everything better. But Apple didn't give up. It has been rebuilding the most fundamental part of the experience -- the base maps themselves. For at least the past six months, the…
Taiwanese publication DigiTimes claimed earlier this month that the company is releasing a new model sometime in mid-2020, with volume production to begin this first quarter. There were a lot of speculations that it was going to be the Switch Pro. We still don't know if Nintendo truly is working on a Pro version of…
Musk is clearly in a good mood with Tesla stock way up, the Model Y SUV coming earlier than expected, and SpaceX on track to possibly launch astronauts soon. He teased the song on Twitter before releasing it, calling himself 'E "D" M' and showing off the fancy-looking studio (complete with N64 controllers) where he…
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