December 15, 2020 Sunrise movement staff vote to unionize Sunrise Movement organizer Sarah Duckett leads a chant with about 100 other activists as they assemble in front of Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s office…
December 15, 2020 We Already Have the Technology to Decarbonize U.S. Electricity It’ll take a lot to transition the U.S. off fossil-based energy: money, political will, labor. But a new report shows it won’t take new…
December 15, 2020 The Robot Vacuums Moms (and Pet Owners) Love Robot vacuums are hot right now! With countless options available and price points ranging from a buck and a half to a grand or…
December 15, 2020 Microsoft will release the Surface Duo in more countries next year After a buggy initial release in the US this past August, Microsoft’s Surface Duo will make its way to other countries next year. On…
December 15, 2020 Boring Company proposes massive Vegas expansion following monorail bankruptcy Elon Musk’s tunneling venture, The Boring Company, is planning a massive citywide expansion of the currently modest underground transportation system it’s building in Las…
December 15, 2020 Superhuman Hack Brings Real-Time 3D Ray Tracing to the SNES With the help of an extra graphics processing chip inside the cartridge, Star Fox did the impossible by bringing 3D graphics to the 16-bit…
December 15, 2020 Walmart will test driverless delivery trucks in Arkansas next year In 2019, Walmart started working with a company called Gatik to test autonomous delivery trucks on a two-mile route between a fulfillment center and…
December 15, 2020 In the Super Mario Cartoon’s Holiday Episode, the Greatest Gift Is Attempted Murder Happy holidays, everybody! Now with that out of the way, I need to talk to you about this “Worst Episode Ever” featuring the Super…
December 15, 2020 Bill Resurrected to Stop Feds From Reading Your Old Emails Without a Warrant Decades before cloud computing was invented, the government decided it should have the power, after 180 days, to read anyone’s emails, and that it…
December 15, 2020 Twitter Kills Periscope, Because It Was a Broken Cash-Suck Livestreaming app Periscope, beloved by far-right conspiracy theorists and child predators alike, will be put out of its misery by the end of this…