The Defenders Could Punch Better if They Learned Some Physics I haven’t seen The Defenders yet, but it’s high on my list of things to watch. I am super excited about it, and why not? It brings Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Daredevil, and Jessica Jones together […]
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Watch Hackers Hijack Three Robots for Spying and Sabotage
Watch Hackers Hijack Three Robots for Spying and Sabotage [embedded content] The entire corpus of science fiction has trained humanity to fear the day when helpful household and industrial robots turn against it, in a Skynet-style uprising. But a much more near-term threat lurks in the […]
Fujifilm’s Instax SQ10 Instant Camera Review: It Mixes Analog and Digital, With Mixed Results
Fujifilm’s Instax SQ10 Instant Camera Review: It Mixes Analog and Digital, With Mixed Results I love shooting with Fujifilm’s Instax instant film cameras—they’re fun for carrying to parties—but I’ve always felt there was something missing from the experience. The company makes both the cameras and the […]
Netflix Is Using ‘The Defenders’ to Understand Its Audience
Netflix Is Using ‘The Defenders’ to Understand Its Audience Todd Yellin is pretty sure his wife would have never watched Jessica Jones if he hadn’t tricked her. She’s not a fan of shows based on comic books, and even though he’s a Netflix exec, nepotism wouldn’t […]
We Can’t Stop Checking the News Either. Welcome to the New FOMO This other type of FOMO, the all-news, all-the-time kind, is new enough that nobody has really studied it much, yet of the half-dozen experts in sociology, anthropology, economics, and neurology I spoke to, all […]
How to Photograph the 2017 Solar Eclipse Using Your Smartphone
How to Photograph the 2017 Solar Eclipse Using Your Smartphone For about three minutes on August 21, if you’re lucky, you can watch the moon cross in front of the sun and block out its light in a total solar eclipse. Afterward, you can expect your […]
How to Watch the Total Solar Eclipse Without Glasses
How to Watch the Total 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 […]
California Proves That Environmental Regulations Don’t Kill Profits
California Proves That Environmental Regulations Don’t Kill Profits To anyone who believes environmental regulation is poison for profits, California must be infuriating. The state’s pollution policies rarely wilt its perennially blooming economy. For the past nine years, a Golden State-centric think tank Next 10 has been […]
Google is About to Make Your Browser More Paranoid
Google is About to Make Your Browser More Paranoid Your browser is about to become a lot more paranoid. You might not notice. But if you do, don’t freak out. At least not yet. You may have noticed that when you visit certain sites, such as […]
Total Solar Eclipse 2017: Follow Live from Coast to Coast
Total Solar Eclipse 2017: Follow Live from Coast to Coast We get it: Ads aren’t what you’re here for. But ads help us keep the lights on.So, add us to your ad blocker’s whitelist or pay $1 per week for an ad-free version of WIRED. Either […]