There’s an old myth that charging our smartphones overnight after they’ve reached full-capacity is somehow damaging to their batteries — but this is simply not the case. Typical smartphone batteries are designed to last around a year and a half, or ...
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Feed SubscriptionNo, NASA isn’t hiring someone to protect us from evil aliens. It’s doing something better.
Why must everything always be about aliens on the internet? The most recent example comes at the hands of a bunch of well-meaning journalists really blowing something out of proportion. Basically, NASA posted a job listing looking for a full-time “planetary protection ...
Read More »Science has been so wrong about women, and it’s time to fix it
It’s easy to assume that just because something is scientific it’s true. That doesn’t account for the glut of conflicting findings both in academia and industry over the past century and how social constructs have impacted scientific judgement. It also ...
Read More »Mozilla scraps Firefox’s ‘Aurora’ dev track
Mozilla today announced it would drop one of Firefox’s preview tracks that have let customers test early versions of the browser before wider deployment. Companies running Firefox, and testing the browser using the “Aurora” track, will be automatically migrated to ...
Read More »Now TV offers free sports, movies and entertainment until January 2017
Now TV has some seriously good offers on its Sports, Movies and Entertainment passes over Christmas 2016 until the new year, including a month’s Sports pass for the price of a weekly ticket. Here’s the Now TV festive deals in ...
Read More »I Want A Jet Engine Ceiling Fan Hanging In My Bedroom
Global warming promises to make the summers more and more unbearable. Instead of precariously balancing an air conditioner in your window, imagine how cool you’d be standing underneath a jet engine ceiling fan. Photo by Phighter Images Styled after the ...
Read More »Google Daydream View review: Is this VR headset the answer to accessible virtual reality?
Welcome to the future. OK, maybe not the future – VR’s been around for a couple of years, after all – let’s just call it a more accessible future. One with automatic doors, ramps instead of stairs, and subtitles. The ...
Read More »Fighting ISIS, One YouTube Ad at a Time
Those pesky ads—they get in the way of your marathon YouTube sessions, not to mention they’re a drain on your computer’s resources. But thanks to Google, they may also be stopping ISIS. A scrappy Google subsidiary called Jigsaw—more think tank ...
Read More »Chinese TV maker LeEco reportedly looking at buying Vizio
It’s not Verizon gobbling up Yahoo, but by the standards of the TV market, an acquisition of Vizio by LeEco could be big. A series of reports, the latest by India’s The Economic Times, points to either an acquisition or ...
Read More »Roku’s new Streaming Stick promises Chromecast-crushing power and private listening
Roku’s new Streaming Stick promises to run rings aroundGoogle’s Chromecast and the Amazon Fire TV Stick in the processing stakes. The tiny HDMI dongle comes with a quad-core processor which should allow for content to be launched more quickly alongside ...
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