The end is nigh—or, at least, a little bit more nigh than it was last month. Now that August is here, there are only four months left to go until the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which means that a lot of people are talking about specifics of how the Skywalker Saga…

Tumblr has been an millstone around the neck of its owners, first Yahoo and later Oath and Verizon Media, pretty much since it was acquired in 2013. They never found…

Wirefree (truly wireless) earbuds are one of those ideas that sounds like a dream: Pop a tiny, little earbud into each ear and listen to music untethered from everything. Reality is often quite different. Most wirefree buds are giganto, die after a few hours, and have a bunch of other control and Bluetooth problems. Luckily,…

Last week when Salesforce announced it was buying ClickSoftware for $1.35 billion you might not have realized it, but the law firm Shearman & Sterling was advising Salesforce throughout the…

Cole Rise, a photographer, built a workshop dedicated to replicating early NASA cameras.Cole RiseThe camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong,” the documentary photographer Susan Meiselas once said. It’s an observation that rings especially true for space exploration. The image of a bootprint in the lunar dust and the “blue marble”…

Exchanges like Coinbase have ballooned in size by taking the mechanics of equity markets and fitting them to cryptocurrency markets, but as the space expands in its scope and craftiness,…

Six years after Yahoo purchased Tumblr for north of $1 billion, its parent corporation is selling the once dominant blogging platform. WordPress owner Automattic Inc. has agreed to take the…

Most people don’t think twice about picking up a phone charging cable and plugging it in. But one hacker’s project wants to change that and raise awareness at the dangers…

Even at that size, a 108-megapixel sensor will have ridiculously small pixels. By default, though, Samsung's Tetracell tech will gather the light from four pixels, transforming it into a 27-megapixel sensor. You'll still be able to snap 108-megapixel photos i…

The team spotted the black hole using data from the Very Large Telescope array. The wealth of extra data from the Chile observatory helped them map the structure of Holm 15A in unprecedented detail, helping them run simulations to explain the galaxy's formati…