July 27, 2020 Big Oil <3 Police Our modern world is full of unholy alliances. Evangelicals and President Donald *****, Sprint and T-Mobile, pickles and trash beer (actually, that last one…
July 27, 2020 *****’s vehicle emissions rollback faces EPA Inspector General probe Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency’s Inspector General has opened an investigation into its own agency’s role in the…
July 27, 2020 Amazon’s redesigned Alexa app puts your most-used features up front Amazon’s Alexa app is finally getting a much-needed revamp. Starting today, the Alexa app will have a whole new home screen with updated navigation…
July 27, 2020 Lollapalooza 2020 will be online with new and old performances Not surprisingly, the massive weekend-long music festival Lollapalooza isn’t happening in Chicago this year. Perhaps also unsurprising is the fact that there will be…
July 27, 2020 The 5 Winners (and 3 Losers) of San Diego Comic-Con 2020 (at Home) San Diego Comic-Con 2020 has ended, and things were a bit different this time around. Obviously, that was because of forces beyond anyone’s control—namely…
July 27, 2020 What to expect from Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 event It’s official: Samsung’s next big product launch is happening on August 5th at 10AM ET, and it’ll be a virtual event as a result…
July 27, 2020 Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 5 standard promises 50 percent charge in less than five minutes Qualcomm has introduced Quick Charge 5, the company’s latest fast-charging standard, and it’s bringing some big promises: more than 100W charging speeds on a…
July 27, 2020 ‘Tenet’ will debut internationally a week before some US cities After multiple delays, Tenet will premiere in international theaters on August 26th. About a week later, Christopher Nolan's spy thriller will then make its way to theaters…
July 27, 2020 The Chip That Can Smell Can Now Help Robots Feel Touch Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have created an artificial robot skin that can process touch 1,000 times faster than humans can,…
July 27, 2020 Vertical Farms Could Grow All the Wheat We Need—But at a Cost For years, vertical farming has captured headlines, including on this very website. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…