New Horizons is currently making its way to the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt en route to a distant destination beyond Pluto. Along the way, the intrepid spacecraft has captured unprecedented images of a distant object called Quaoar—a dwarf planet about half the size of Pluto. Read more…
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NASA Spacecraft Catches a Rare Glimpse Dwarf Planet Quaoar
When you drop hundreds on an HDTV, you expect it to work out of the box. Yet somehow, in 2016, we still have to tweak color settings, adjust brightness, and make other changes to get the best picture. How is it possible that with all the technical leaps televisions have made over the years, TVs still require calibration? Read more…
Marcel Lazar, better known as Guccifer, the hacker who terrorized politicians in 2013, pled guilty to various computer crimes in May. Today, he was sentenced to 52 months in prison. Read more…
At IFA in Berlin Lenovo announced a nice array of refreshed laptops and tablets, updating great devices like the Lenovo Yoga 900 series (now the Lenovo 910) with 7th generation Intel processors, but one device stood out among the rest. It’s the tiniest laptop Lenovo has on display, so tiny the company is classifying it as a tablet. The Lenovo Book is just 0.38-inches thick, which makes it the thinnest laptop currently available, and makes ultra slims like the half-inch thick Samsung Notebook 9 and Apple Macbook look positively chunky. Read more…
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The Thinnest Laptop in the World Needs a Touchscreen Keyboard
Just last week Sony announced that its game streaming service, PlayStation Now, was on its way to Windows PCs this fall. Turns out it’s sooner than that, because you can download it for Windows right now. Read more…
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PlayStation Now Is Available On Windows PC
Kaby Lake, Intel’s latest processor family, wasn’t supposed to exist . Earlier this year Intel announced the end of its well-known tick-tock release schedule, whereby it trots out a new processor every September. The tick is the shrinking and improvements of the current microarchitecture, while the tock is a whole new architecture. Instead last year’s “tock, ” Skylake , was going to hang around a while, with no new “tick” in sight. Read more…
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Intel’s New Kaby Lake Processors: What You Need to Know
Today, Facebook announced that human curators will no longer write short descriptions that accompany trending topics on the site. Instead, the company will rely on an algorithmic process to “pull excerpts directly from stories.” The company also said it will stop using human curators to sort through the news. Read more…
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Facebook Removes Human Curators From Trending Module
The dodo has been extinct for about 350 years, and it’s entirely our fault—so why not own a memento of man’s destructive tendencies in the form of a three-foot tall bird skeleton. Read more…
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This Priceless Dodo Skeleton Took 40 Years to Assemble
The worst part about making your own ice cream is waiting for it to freeze. This clever DIY machine makes your homemade ice cream ready to eat in a matter of minutes. Read more…
In what’s being hailed as one of the biggest astronomical discoveries of the century, scientists with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) today confirmed the discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri—our nearest neighboring star. Details of the team’s discovery were just published in Nature . Read more…
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New Earth-Like Exoplanet Could Be Discovery of the Century