The MacBook Air is likely dead. Despite being Apple’s most popular current computer, used by programmers, bloggers, and coffee shop patrons everywhere, the MacBook Air appears to have been put to pasture. It’s never going to get a super high resolution Retina display or a super thin bezel. Instead according to Tim Cook, MacBook Air fans should go with the tiny MacBook Apple announced last year. Read more…
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RIP MacBook Air?
A wearable patch used to treat peanut allergies has shown tremendous promise in a recently concluded clinical trial, performing particularly well among young children. Read more…
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A Skin Patch to Treat Peanut Allergies Just Passed a Crucial Test
AT&T—the same people trying to buy Time Warner—announced Tuesday that it will be launching an online-only TV service dubbed DirecTV Now . It’s cheaper than cable, too. Read more…
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AT&T Wants to Sell You a Hundred Streaming Channels for $35 a Month
Apple is supposed to release the brand new MacBook Pro at a big event Thursday, but it looks like images of the MacBook got out early. The source? Apple. Read more…
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New MacBook Pro Leaked in Latest Version of MacOS
Today, half of America’s internet shut down when hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn , a major DNS host. It’s still unclear exactly who carried out the attack and why, but regardless, the event served as a demonstration of how easily large swaths of the web can be wiped out if attacked by determined hackers. Read more…
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What Is DNS and Why Does It Make the Internet Break?
Japanese hand planes or kannas are remarkable tools that can shave off layers of wood so ridiculously thin that they look like tissue paper. The wood shaving in the GIF above is only 8 microns thick which almost sounds like an impossible measurement because even human hair has a diameter of about 50 microns. Read more…
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Watch a Japanese Hand Plane Shave Wood Impossibly Thin
Yahoo has recently disabled a feature that would have made it easier to ditch your Yahoo email account. Perhaps you had planned on forwarding all incoming messages to a new address, a common feature with most email providers. Unfortunately it’s not currently an option at Yahoo. Read more…
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Remains of the Day: Yahoo Makes it More Difficult to Leave by Disabling Email Forwarding
Netflix has released the first trailer for Dreamworks Trollhunters , a children’s animated series directed by the same guy whose idea of a fairy tale includes rebel torture and child murder. It’s Guillermo del Toro… for kids! Read more…
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Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters Looks Really Damn Fun
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off the company’s experiments with social virtual reality experiences that allow you to chat with your friends using avatars in headsets like Oculus’s Rift. It was really weird. The demo app allows you to chat with avatars of your friends, travel to places like Mars or Facebook’s Headquarters, and take virtual reality selfies to share to Facebook. Read more…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Absurd ‘Social VR’ Demo Was Brutal
If you watched the “Made by Google” event yesterday—or read our roundup —you’d be forgiven if you missed that there was a brand new version of Android. Google itself hardly seemed to notice . Here’s what we know about it. Read more…
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Android 7.1 Brings Night Light, Seamless Updates, Fingerprint Gestures, and Daydream VR