Quantum Internet Is 13 Years Away. Wait, What’s Quantum Internet? A year ago this week, Chinese physicists launched the world’s first quantumsatellite. Unlike the dishes that deliver your Howard Stern and cricket tournaments, this 1,400-pound behemoth doesn’t beam radio waves. Instead, the physicists designed it to […]
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After Charlottesville, Dark Humor Helps Twitter Grieve
After Charlottesville, Dark Humor Helps Twitter Grieve The question was simple enough: “Where the hell is Kendall Jenner with her Pepsi 12 packs?” As terror enveloped Charlottesville during the “Unite the Right” rally on Saturday, where hundreds of neo-Nazis and Klansmen violently mobilized in a mutinous […]
8 Cool Notebooks to Help You Write Right
8 Cool Notebooks to Help You Write Right If you’ve written in one notebook, you’ve written in them all, right? Only if you’re grabbing a basic spiral bound from the student union. But why would you settle for wafer thin pages and weak spines when there’s […]
Want to Look Famous? Just Photoshop Yourself With Marilyn Monroe and Andy Warhol
Want to Look Famous? Just Photoshop Yourself With Marilyn Monroe and Andy Warhol In real life, Silin Liu leads a fairly pedestrian life as an artist in Beijing. In her photos, she is Celine Liu, a glamorous socialite who chats with world leaders, mingles with celebrities, […]
One Year Later, ‘No Man’s Sky’ Is Still Worth Exploring
One Year Later, ‘No Man’s Sky’ Is Still Worth Exploring No Man’s Sky promised infinity, and that’s a promise nothing can ever keep. You may remember that Hello Games’ epic space exploration opus landed one year ago. In the months preceding its release, the game became […]
‘Game of Thrones’ Recap, Season 7 Episode 5: The Sins of the Father Persist
‘Game of Thrones’ Recap, Season 7 Episode 5: The Sins of the Father Persist Much of recorded history has been the story of fathers and sons, with women written down merely as the familial covalent bonds that connected them when they were recorded at all. The […]
The Plan to Put a 3-D Printer With Robot Arms Into Orbit
The Plan to Put a 3-D Printer With Robot Arms Into Orbit Space is indifferent to your suffering. It doesn’t care that it’ll freeze you to death unless you’re wearing a fancy suit, or that even before freezing you’ll suffocate in its vacuum. And it certainly […]
How to View the Solar Eclipse Without Glasses
How to View the Solar Eclipse Without Glasses You’ve surely heard by now that the moon will pass between Earth and the sun on August 21, creating a total solar eclipse that will cast a shadow over much of the US. Jimmy Carter was president the […]
Ikea’s Home Smart Line Could Shake Up the Smart Home Industry
Ikea’s Home Smart Line Could Shake Up the Smart Home Industry The “smart home” has not yet distinguished itself. Sure, you might dim your lights with an app; you might even talk to your large appliances. But despite years of promised ubiquity, the connected home has […]
Star Wars Rumor Round-up: A Firehose of Clues From the ‘Last Jedi’ Cast
Star Wars Rumor Round-up: A Firehose of Clues From the ‘Last Jedi’ Cast Beginning to think that, post-D23 and San Diego Comic-Con, we wouldn’t get any new information about Star Wars: The Last Jedi until it hits theaters this December? Then you hadn’t considered the importance […]