December 10, 2019 DoorDash Has a New Plan to Make Workers Gamble on How Much They’ll Get Paid Courier service and notoriously predatory employer DoorDash is still messing with its pay and tipping systems. This time, the company has informed its delivery…
December 10, 2019 The Most Innovative Gadgets of the Decade This decade we saw the smartphone move from overpriced gadget to something more necessary than a laptop or desktop. We saw the e-reader settle…
December 10, 2019 Should You Buy an iPhone on Apple’s New Installment Plan? With price tags of $1,000—or more!—it’s hard to imagine buying a new iPhone outright. You could set up a payment plan with your phone…
December 10, 2019 Famous Foxes Bred for Tameness Weren’t Actually Wild in the First Place, Claims Controversial New Paper Decades ago, a Soviet geneticist purposely bred foxes to make them extra tame, an experiment that produced a host of unanticipated physical changes in…
December 10, 2019 You Can Stream Torrents Through The Pirate Bay Once Again Streaming on the Pirate Bay probably won’t be as easy as clicking play on Netflix—or as legal—but it’ll definitely be free. Read more… via…
December 10, 2019 Tuesday’s Best Deals: iPads, Aukey Accessories, Holiday Chocolates, and More A Sephora sale, dog harnesses, TaoTronics Bluetooth Earbuds, and Anker ANC headphones lead off Tuesday’s best deals from around the web. Read more… via…
December 10, 2019 Amber Fossils Reveal Lice-Like Bugs Crawling in Dinosaur Feathers Ancient insects similar to modern lice parasitized dinosaurs by feasting on their feathers, as evidenced by a pair of fascinating new amber fossils. Read…
December 10, 2019 Sydney Is Choking on the Most Toxic Air on Earth Australia has been on fire for more than a month, but the flames are hardly the only impact. Smoke from Australia’s bush fires engulfed…
December 10, 2019 Kathleen Kennedy on Why The Rise of Skywalker Revealed Two of Its Villainous Secrets in the Trailers Interviewing someone like Kathleen Kennedy isn’t like interviewing an actor or director. As the president of Lucasfilm, she isn’t just involved in what we…
December 10, 2019 Chilean Plane Carrying 38 Passengers Disappears During Flight to Antarctica Operators lost contact with a C-130 Hercules military aircraft on Monday at 6:13 pm GMT—almost an hour and a half into a flight carrying…