The Trumpification of Elon Musk
Around the time Donald Trump was inaugurated in 2017, I said to colleagues in the newsroom where I worked at the time that we shouldn’t cover everything he said or…
A Fight Over Automation Plans at US Hydroelectric Dams
Michael Arendt has spent his career on the water. After working his way up through the US Merchant Marines from deckhand to riverboat captain, he came ashore in 2001 to…
How Do You Prove There’s Ice on the Moon? With a Lunar Flashlight
“For me, this is a dream measurement,” says David Paige, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles who has been part of the mission since its inception…
Let Twitter Devolve Into Porn
“I am mad for it to be in contact with me,” Walt Whitman wrote, of what he called “life’s atmosphere.” No doubt he also meant contact with the bodies of…
The Uncanny Valley of Twitter’s 2022 Trends
When it comes to explaining the internet, tech writer Brian Feldman has a singular approach. He’s spent significant time investigating the roots of that one early viral video where a…
A Tale of Two Nuclear Plants Reveals Europe’s Energy Divide
A forest of wind turbines rises out of the fields on both sides of the highway running east out of Vienna. But at the border with Slovakia, which stretches between…
Don’t buy an iPhone 14 through Apple – there are much easier ways
Audio player loading… If you were planning to buy an iPhone 14, where would you shop? Depending on where you are in the world your answer might vary, but in…
5 things we want to see in Mike Flanagan’s The Dark Tower series
Acclaimed horror director Mike Flanagan will now helm an adaptation of author Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, and expectations are through the roof. Fumali – Service providers Marketplace
This Alienware gaming PC with an RTX 3080 Ti is $530 off
The Aurora R13 comes with an RTX 3080 Ti and is going for $2,300, a great deal for one of the best GPUs on the market. Fumali – Service providers…
How to watch Rocket Lab’s first U.S. launch on Thursday
In a major step forward for Rocket Lab, the 16-year-old spaceflight company is about to perform its first-ever launch from U.S. soil. Fumali – Service providers Marketplace