The idea of peak oil has haunted us for decades . I say haunt because the concept that sooner or later we’d run out of the stuff has contributed to some terrible public policy in the United States. Read more…
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Article from 1975: The World Will Be Out of Oil by 2015
We’re always being told the U.S. is now lagging behind other, more industrious nations in science and technology and basically anything that isn’t spending on the military. How much are we lagging? Here is a depressing graph to help quantify that. Read more…
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Compared To the Rest of the World, US 4G (Unsurprisingly) Sucks
The image of a dinosaur tramping around in the snow feels totally wrong — these behemoths ruled a tropical world. But one duck billed dinosaur, at least, managed to endure long, dark winters far north of the Arctic Circle some 69 million years ago. Read more…
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We’ve Discovered a Lost World of Snow Dinosaurs
A road trip is an epic adventure, but you don’t need a car to see some beautiful parts of America. Read more…
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Take a Road Trip Across the US by Train for Under $500
iOS 9 is packed with all kinds of great features and one of the most useful is a new low power mode that triggers when your battery gets to 20%. Wired took a look at exactly how much extra time you should be able to get out of your phone with this mode enabled. Read more…
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How Much Extra Battery Power You’ll Actually Get with iOS 9’s Low Power Mode
Apple cleaned the App Store of apps containing malware today, having discovered a long con that saw developers using infected software tools, inadvertently turning their legit apps into data-collection tools for hackers. Read more…
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Apple is Cleaning The App Store Of its First Major Malware Attack
If you’d like to sip a smooth latte, but don’t want any dairy or dairy alternatives, just add a little xanthan gum. Read more…
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Make a Foamy, Dairy-Free "Latte" With Xanthan Gum
Marco Arment, internet pundit and creator of Instapaper, has decided to stop selling his wildly-popular ad blocker, Peace, for iOS 9. His reason? It “just doesn’t feel good.” But there’s more to it than that. Read more…
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The Most Popular Paid App in the App Store Is Gone
Since its release in August of 2012 playing the subscription-free PC MMORPG Guild Wars 2 has been a simple matter of purchasing the initial game. Starting today you don’t even have to do that. Read more…
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Guild Wars 2 Is Free To Play Starting Today
Every so often, a car comes along that is so good it re-defines what “good” is. Consumer Reports just found that the Tesla Model S P85D is just that car, as it scored an absolutely incredible 103 points on their 100-point scale. Read more…
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The Tesla Model S P85D Is So Good It Broke The Scale At Consumer Reports