Google Earth Now Shows You Our Planet’s Slow Deterioration
Watch closely as the reservoir dries up, the oil spill spreads, and the rain forest disappears. Today, Google announced a...
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I Avoided Fake Meat for Years. That Was a Big Mistake
The moment I walked past a stack of Impossible Burger packets at Costco was the moment I realized that I'd...
Slack Now Lets You DM Anyone. So Long, Work-Life Balance
“When someone opens up their phone,” Frank told Protocol, “if they’re connecting with their friends, they click on Facebook or...
How Audio Pros ‘Upmix’ Vintage Tracks and Give Them New Life
AudioSourceRE and Audionamix’s Xtrax Stems are among the first consumer-facing software options for automated demixing. Feed a song into Xtrax,...
Facebook Finally Explains Its Mysterious Wrist Wearable
But Facebook has visions for this wrist tech beyond AR and VR, Bosworth says. “If you really had access to...
What You Need to Know About Roblox—and Why Kids Are Obsessed
We also played Royale High, which is unlike anything I’ve ever tried before. I reached out to its creator, Callmehbob,...
Everyone on Twitter Needs an Etiquette Manual
There’s no getting around it: Quarantine is making us weird. Humans did not evolve as social animals for thousands of...
A New Lens Technology Is Primed to Jump-Start Phone Cameras
Phone makers like Apple have increased the number of lens elements over time, and while some, like Samsung, are now...
A New Lens Technology Is Primed to Jump-Start Phone Cameras
Phone makers like Apple have increased the number of lens elements over time, and while some, like Samsung, are now...
Amazon’s Greatest Gadget Hits: Highlights of the Bezos Era
This isn’t hardware, per se, but Alexa has proven to be one of Amazon’s biggest moves in the consumer product...
Face ID Will Soon Work With a Mask—if You Have an Apple Watch
Apple is facing our face-masked future. This week, the company started testing some new software for the iPhone that will...
Sweet Jesus, Can Someone Just Tell Me What to Cook Every Day?
One of the best perks of being a Seattle Public Library member is a service called Your Next 5 Books....
Virtual CES Was As Surreal As We All Suspected It Would Be
But the heart and soul of CES isn’t the smooth-talking prognosticators or the journalists who follow them. It’s the tech...
The Future of Phone Design: Flexible Screens That Roll Up
The biggest barrier to widespread adoption of phones with these new designs is their high price. Samsung's first foldable phone...
The Best of CES 2021
CareClever Cutii. For years, we’ve seen companion robots of all shapes and sizes at CES—cuddlebots, dog robots, and robots that,...
It’s a Big Year for ‘Clean Tech’ at CES
In the best of times, CES is disgusting. Previous to this year, when CES was moved online because of an...
Mobileye Puts Lidar on a Chip—and Helps Map Intel’s Future
“The advantage that silicon photonics can bring is a small form factor solution, which can result in a compact size...
Amazon’s Fitness Tracker Teaches You How to Be Nicer (Kinda)
I was expecting Real to be extremely skeptical about newfangled devices that use cloud-based AI to interpret biodata. After all,...
