NASA’s Curiosity rover touched down on Mars in August 2012, and it’s been cruising around, shooting lasers at rocks, drilling into the ground, and performing science experiments ever since. Just last week, news came out that Curiosity had found something salty. The rover is driving across Gale Crater, an ancient Martian lake bed that was…

Part of Samsung’s reboot of the Galaxy Fold was the announcement of a Premiere Service. Along with a reinforced version of the phone and a lot more warning labels, the…

Last year, Adam Banzhoff was living in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, working an IT job at a bank and feeling morose. “I was in a downswing, a little bit of a depression,” he tells me. Then one day, on a whim, he signed up for Horti, a new subscription service that ships members a plant every month.…

Hey everyone. Thank you for welcoming me into you inbox yet again. Last week was a short one, but I talked about the merger of a couple of the worst…

During an event at the United Nations Delegates Dining Room in New York City, IBM unveiled the winners to its annual  Call for Code Global Challenge. The competition, which is…

There’s a strategic cost to the defection of Visa, Stripe, eBay, and more from the Facebook-led cryptocurrency Libra Association. They’re not just names dropping off a list. Each potentially made…

Come on. Some of those carnival games are just plain silly. There’s one (check out the video) with a bowling pin and a ball suspended from a string above it. You’re supposed to swing the ball around and hit the pin from behind. Spoiler alert: It can’t be done. This is a sucker game. How…

Choosing the right action camera used to be simple: Go with GoPro. It's still good advice. The GoPro ranks high on our list, and would be our top pick for most people. But finally, we've found a few worthy competitors.To figure out which camera is the best, we tried them all. We dove with them,…

Summer is a hassle. I don't like being stuck inside during long, sunny afternoons when it's just too hot to run, and I don't like risking dehydration or heat stroke when I go camping. But once the temperature drops in the fall, those sunny afternoons are mine again—and now, so is the gear.REI is one…

Then there were 22. Last week, PayPal became the first to defect from the 28-member Libra Association, declining to participate in Facebook’s vision for global payments—a vision it helped seed. Now, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, eBay, and Mercado Pago have followed it out the door. The hurried exits come as the association prepares for its first…