NASA Releases Catalog Packed With the Most Bizarre Alien Worlds
Do we live in an unusual star system? Astronomers have been trying to figure out if the Solar System is unique compared to other stars and their orbiting planets, and…
Don’t Get Scammed on Cyber Monday
Photo: Natee Meepian (Shutterstock) It’s nearly Black Friday and Cyber Monday—that beautiful time of the year when Americans forego their normal, sensible fiscal concerns and embrace the spirit of debauched…
How to Avoid Sneaky Cyber Monday Scams
Photo: Natee Meepian (Shutterstock) It’s nearly Black Friday and Cyber Monday—that beautiful time of the year when Americans forego their normal, sensible fiscal concerns and embrace the spirit of debauched…
What Place Does Physical Media Have in Our All-Digital World?
There are few places in this world where dead things are offered such a promoted place among the living. If I had to arrange my mind to any, my first…
This Independent Video Store Is Trying to Recreate Netflix’s DVD-by-Mail Service But for Cinephiles
Netflix may be done sending people DVDs through the mail, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us have to be satisfied with streaming all our movies. This week, one…
This Independent Video Store Is Trying to Recreate Netflix’s DVD-by-Mail Service
Netflix may be done sending people DVDs through the mail, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us have to be satisfied with streaming all our movies. This week, one…
Teamsters Reach a Deal With UPS, Tentatively Averting a Difficult Strike
UPS has avoided a strike only one day after 340,000 employees threatened to walk out over an unsustainable pay rate for part-time workers. The Teamsters Union, which represents UPS workers,…
How the USPS uses Nvidia GPUs and A.I. to track missing mail
You’ve got mail! But where is it? The USPS is leaning on A.I. at the edge and GPU-accelerated computing to help track and locate missing mail and packages.
The multi-billion dollar USPS modernization looks like…a duck
The United States Postal Service is finally modernizing its fleet of delivery trucks, but the proposed vehicle design is a head scratcher. It’s no secret that the USPS is literally…
How to participate in USPS’s Operation Santa this year
This holiday season may look different than any other before, but one thing remains certain: Christmas is coming. And just because the pandemic is still raging throughout the U.S. doesn’t…