October 12, 2021 Engineer One-Ups Apple By Adding a Working USB-C Port to an iPhone Earlier this fall, the European Union designated USB-C as the common charging port for future phones. While we wait for Apple to get with…
October 12, 2021 Instagram Is Making Outage Alerts Part of Its User Experience Just a week after Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp suffered two major global outages, the company’s back with an update that will make its tech…
October 12, 2021 Here’s What Sea Level Rise Will Do to 9 Cities If We Make the Wrong Choices Amid the climate crisis, seas are rising faster than any other time in the past 3,000 years. How much faster and higher they rise…
October 12, 2021 Critical Role’s New D&D Adventure Plummets Into the Netherdeep It’s not a bad time to be a fan of the hit Dungeons & Dragons real-play podcast Critical Role. Season three begins in less…
October 12, 2021 An Elk With a Tire Around Its Neck for Two Years Was Finally Freed An elk that suffered for half its life with a tire stuck around its neck is now free. This week, wildlife officials in Colorado…
October 12, 2021 Your Guide to COP26, the World’s Most Important Climate Talks Maybe you’ve educated yourself a little bit about what COP26 is all about. You know what a COP is (that’s “conference of the parties”…
October 12, 2021 How Chucky Opens a New Chapter for the Cult Series While Staying True to Its (Bloody) Roots Chucky’s back! The plastic-faced, orange-haired terror from the Child’s Play movies has his own TV show coming to Syfy and USA tonight, and good…
October 12, 2021 Updates From Indiana Jones 5, Doctor Who, and More Jason Reitman wants Afterlife to set up a whole new bunch of Ghostbusters movies. Get a glimpse of Edgar Wright’s latest, Last Night in…
October 12, 2021 Scream’s First Trailer Reminds Us Why We Love to Fear Ghostface The phone is ringing, and horror-movie nostalgia’s on the line—bringing with it some favorite characters we haven’t seen in a decade, plus some new…
October 12, 2021 Withings Wins FDA Clearance for Smartwatch That Can Detect Respiratory Issues Back at CES 2020, Withings threw down the gauntlet with the ScanWatch, a sleek smartwatch it claimed could take electrocardiograms and monitor for respiratory disorders…