Nuun electrolytes are for more than just working out
Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little bit better. There are long stretches of time — hours, a full day, who knows — where…
The 10 best films of 2020
Each year, we write these top 10 lists to talk about how unique the past year in film has been, how spectacularly dramatic or delightfully unexpected the best movies of…
Aurora acquires Uber’s self-driving cars
Uber is offloading as much as it can as the pandemic continues to decimate demand for ride-hailing. On Monday, self-driving technology company Aurora announced it was acquiring Uber’s Advanced Technologies…
Seth Meyers targets Trump’s revealing self-own about how ‘hard’ he’s working
[embedded content] As outgoing president Donald Trump continues to pretend he isn’t going anywhere, he’s been pushing his false narrative of election fraud with a passionate dedication he never displayed…
COVID-19 vaccine monitoring program may be at risk of false reports
A text-messaging program to monitor any side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine may be open to manipulation, The Washington Post reports. Experts worry that the newly-developed system focuses more on…
With guns drawn, police raid home and seize computers of COVID-19 data whistleblower
Eight months ago, Deborah Birx of the White House Coronavirus Task Force praised Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard as an example of “the kind of knowledge and power we need to put…
Second judge says Trump can’t ban TikTok
A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction that should keep the US Commerce Department from banning transactions with TikTok. The Trump administration issued an executive order on August 6th…
Google Stadia will let all users livestream games directly to YouTube tomorrow
From the very beginning, Google Stadia and YouTube were supposed to work together — thanks to the magic of cloud computing, you’d be able to click a YouTube ad to…
Trump’s TikTok Ban Blocked For the Second Time
Photo: Justin Sullivan / Staff (Getty Images) A second federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on President Donald Trump’s TikTok ban on Monday, effectively block the US Commerce Department from…
‘Why do queer people want to ruin video games?’ and other stupid questions answered
Every queer person on the planet could sense it, like a disturbance in The Force, when the review embargo lifted for CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077. I’m picturing meerkats popping…