August 2, 2019 Summer Is Fading, But There Are Tons of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Coming to Brighten Up August This month’s crop of brand-new sci-fi and fantasy horror books include space battles with hostile aliens, multiple mages, a pet crow who’s got a…
August 2, 2019 The Woman Who Turned Psychological Testing Into a Science “I don’t have time for this,” psychologist Anne Anastasi reportedly said in 1987, before hanging up the phone on a call from Ronald Reagan’s…
August 2, 2019 Watch Adam Savage nerd out over the costume from the high school Alien play Image: Tested Adam Savage is a bit of a fan of Ridley Scott’s film Alien. He spent years constructing his own replica of Kane’s…
August 2, 2019 The best ice cream maker By Marguerite Preston and Lesley Stockton This post was done in partnership with Wirecutter. When readers choose to buy Wirecutter's independently chosen editorial picks,…
August 2, 2019 iPad Pro USB-C hubs: the best, worst, and weirdest options Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Do more with the iPad Pro’s one and only port Continue reading… via The Verge –…
August 2, 2019 Facebook releases tools to flag harmful content on GitHub Facebook wants to rid the internet of garbage. But it can't do that alone. So today, it's making two of its photo- and video-flagging…
August 2, 2019 Vergecast: Apple’s earnings report, face unlock for the Pixel 4, and the SMART Act Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple announced this week that iPhones now make up less than half of its business for the first time…
August 2, 2019 Verizon temporarily drops the 5G fee on its most expensive data plans Verizon (Engadget's parent company) is shaking up its offerings. Today, it introduced four new unlimited plans — Start, Play More, Do More and Get…
August 2, 2019 eBay is suing three Amazon managers for allegedly poaching its sellers Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Online retailer eBay has sued three Amazon managers for allegedly infiltrating eBay’s platform to poach sellers. The…
August 2, 2019 Poshmark Users, You Need to Reset Your Passwords Chances are high that if you’ve resold clothes online any time recently (or bought them second-hand), you’ve done so on Poshmark. Unfortunately, it’s also…