Bang & Olufsen’s Beosound Shape Speakers Create a Beautiful Wall of Sound Don’t gunk up your artfully appointed living room with artlessly boxy speakers. The Danes at Bang & Olufsen have designed a sonic solution for you. The wall-mounted BeoSound Shape is assembled from three flavors […]
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Charlottesville, HBO Hacks, and More Security News This Week
Charlottesville, HBO Hacks, and More Security News This Week The terrible events of Charlottesville, VA, last weekend caused several parties to reevaluate. The so-called alt-right attempted to disown the rally online despite promoting it heavily in advance. Tech companies finally used some of the tools at […]
Would It Be Better If Men Couldn’t Vote?
Would It Be Better If Men Couldn’t Vote? Science fiction often shows us ways society could be different in the future. One recent example is John Kessel’s novel The Moon and the Other, which presents a fresh take on the idea of a matriarchal society. “I […]
Yellowstone Supervolcano Could Power Electric Cars of the Future
Yellowstone Supervolcano Could Power Electric Cars of the Future This story originally appeared on Newsweek and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Electric cars and smartphones of the future could be powered by supervolcanoes like Yellowstone after scientists discovered that ancient deposits within them contain huge reservoirs of lithium—a […]
Gadget Lab Podcast: Essential Wants to Get Into Your Pocket—and Your Smart Home
Gadget Lab Podcast: Essential Wants to Get Into Your Pocket—and Your Smart Home A new Android phone hits the market in a couple of weeks. Normally that’s unexciting news—Android phones are basically always raining from the sky. But this is the Essential phone, the first consumer […]
Breaking Down the HBO Hacks: From Game of Thrones To a Twitter Takeover
Breaking Down the HBO Hacks: From Game of Thrones To a Twitter Takeover They say April is the cruelest month, but HBO may beg to differ. The company kicked off August with an apparently massive breach of its servers, in which hackers pilfered everything from full […]
The Robots Will Be Soft and Cuddly and Heal Their Own Wounds
The Robots Will Be Soft and Cuddly and Heal Their Own Wounds Poke a hole in a human and something remarkable happens. First of all, you go to jail. But meanwhile, the wound heals itself, filling in the missing tissue and protecting itself from infection. Poke […]
White Supremacy Isn’t a Philosophy, It’s a Filter
White Supremacy Isn’t a Philosophy, It’s a Filter In the days since President Trump’s incendiary press conference—where he more or less validated the racist and thuggish ideologies hurled by white supremacists and neo-Nazis—I have been unable to escape something he said. “I think there’s blame on […]
What a Border Collie Taught a Linguist About Language
What a Border Collie Taught a Linguist About Language Tansy was not into sports. The little border collie, a rescue, didn’t care for agility trials or flyball. But her adopted family—with two other border collies already in the house—did them all the time. Border collies are […]
Review: Miggö Pictar One iPhone Camera Grip
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