Science, Tech and Gadgets

Amazon Prime Day 2020: What to Expect on October 13 and the Best Deals Right Now Featured Deal: Amazon Echo Show 5 | $45 (Prime Exclusive)Read more... Go to Source

This Year's Hole in the Ozone Is Twice the Size of the U.S. If you’ve been looking to cast yourself into a deep hole from which you can never return (I have!), the one in the ozone layeris a prime choice right now.Read more... Go to Source

Treat Your Wrists to the Best Ergonomic Keyboards, According to Enthusiasts Top Product: Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard | $130 | Best BuyRead more... Go to Source

Apple's iPhone Event Is Oct. 13, for Real This Time Back in September, which seems like years ago but was actually just last month, we thought Apple’s Time Flies event might feature some new iPhones, though rumors had long swirled they would go on sale later in the fall due to coronavirus-related production delays. But the September event came and went without nary an…Read more... Go to Source

The Witcher Season 2 Photos Highlight a New Witcher in Training Let’s be honest: Ciri didn’t get a lot to do in season one of The Witcher. Well, those days are gone. Netflix has shared the first look at Freya Allen in season two, and it’s clear Ciri is no longer running: She’s preparing for war. Read more... Go to Source

AT&T Just Screwed Over DSL Customers and Rural America As of Oct. 1, AT&T has stopped offering DSL as a new service, according to USA Today. Existing DSL subscribers, who connect to the internet via copper phone lines, will be grandfathered in. DSL is definitely old technology, but many people, especially in rural areas, still rely on it for internet access. Internet…Read more... Go to Source

Sure Sounds Like Apple Is About to Launch Some Speakers and Headphones In what seems like an obvious sign that Apple has a few new audio products lined up to launch this fall, the company just cleared its digital and physical stores of nearly every speaker and headphone brand that could conceivably be considered a rival if Apple had some competing devices slated to go on sale soon.Read more... Go to Source

Let Your Productivity and Fun Soar With a 32" QHD LG Monitor with HDR10 for $250 LG 32" 1440p Monitor w/ HDR10, AMD FreeSync | $250 | AmazonRead more... Go to Source

CDC Finally Acknowledges That Covid-19 Can Be Airborne The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday updated its covid-19 guidance to say that the coronavirus can spread through aerosols, not just large droplets. This is an important distinction because it means that maintaining 6 feet of distance indoors is not always enough to prevent transmission. V…Read more... Go to Source

Save on Zelda, Animal Crossing, Mario Odyssey, and More in Today's Best Switch Deals Featured Deal: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | $45Read more... Go to Source

Exxon’s Leaked Five-Year Plan Is a Climate Disaster Earlier this year, Exxon promised to slash its methane emissions and reduce its gas burning, but it seems it had some other plans in the works, too. New internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg show that the energy giant’s business plans would increase its carbon pollution by 17% by 2025. In total, the additions would…Read more... Go to Source

Well, Sure: Drone With a Shotgun In partnership with the United Kingdom’s Strategic Command, which supports the Ministry of Defence, an unnamed company has developed a new battle-ready drone to assist armed forces with dangerous ground operations during urban warfare.Read more... Go to Source

The Last Stand of the Violent, Pathetic Trump Man In early 2018, during a rare interview with Trump Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller, CNN host Jake Tapper was disgusted enough to cut the mic. Miller had accused CNN of airing “24 hours of negative, anti-Trump, hysterical coverage” which he said led to “some embarrassing false reporting.” Miller was vehement and…Read more... Go to Source

Zeiss' $6,000 Full-Frame ZX1 Is An Intriguing Little Camera with a Ridiculous Price Tag Putting full-frame sensors into smaller and smaller compact bodies is all the rage nowadays. Nikon did it with the Z5, Panasonic did it with the S5, and just last month Sony joined the crowd with the new A7C. After announcing its compact full-frame camera more than two years ago, Zeiss’ $6,000 ZX1 has finally become…Read more... Go to Source

Lovecraft Country Went Meta and Got Even More Disturbing With each episode of Lovecraft Country’s first season, a new family member or friend in Atticus Freeman’s midst has been unceremoniously dragged into a dark convergence of events that might result in a Lovecraftian apocalypse. By shifting its focus onto each member of its supporting cast, Lovecraft Country’s been able…Read more... Go to Source

Early Humans Were Using Fire 300,000 Years Ago to Forge Superior Stone Tools The prehistoric practice of using controlled fires to produce customized stone tools dates back 300,000 years, according to new research. The discovery affirms the cognitive and cultural sophistication of human species living at this time.Read more... Go to Source

Could Someone Hack My Microchip Implant? These are, absolutely, very bleak times, but in a sense we should cherish them: we’re living through maybe the last stretch of history before employers start mandating microchips en masse. You’re going to miss living in fear of contracting a deadly virus, once HR brings out the scalpel—and then you’re going to miss…Read more... Go to Source

Google's Nest Audio Is the Best Sounding Smart Speaker You Can Get for $100 After buying Nest back in 2014, Google has been repositioning all of its smart home products under the brand, and that includes its smart speakers. One of the last holdouts to be upgraded as a Nest was one of the company’s first smart speakers, the 4-year-old Google Home. But the new Google Nest Audio sounds like it’s…Read more... Go to Source

Apple’s New Emoji Wants You to Know That You Don’t Have to Be Miserable When Wearing a Face Mask At this point in the coronavirus pandemic, we all know that face masks—which public health officials agree are one of our most powerful weapons against the virus—can unfortunately be controversial. Grown adults in the U.S. have literally thrown childish fits over having to wear them. In recent days, Apple has quietly…Read more... Go to Source

As If Calling Its Wrestlers ‘Independent Contractors’ Wasn't Enough, WWE Is Now Going to Hijack Their Twitch Accounts Encouraging wrestlers to develop their own brand and then coming back to say, “Oh hey, sorry, you need to give us your Twitch account now,” just seems wrong. However, that’s exactly what WWE is doing to its wrestlers, who learned this week that the company would be taking over their Twitch accounts in four weeks,…Read more... Go to Source

Cineworld Is Considering Closing Its Theaters For the Rest of the Year So the whole going-to-see-movies-during-a-pandemic thing really isn’t working out, huh? Who could have seen that coming. Read more... Go to Source

Netflix's Next Holiday Movie is the Sweeping Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey Starring Forest Whittaker This seems just so wholesome. Read more... Go to Source

So, Who Else Thinks the White House Is Totally Pulling a Weekend at Bernie’s? President Donald Trump is fine. Everything’s fine. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.Read more... Go to Source

The Samsung 82-inch Q70T QLED 4K Smart TV is Now $700 Off Its Original Price Samsung 82" Q70T QLED 4K Smart TV | $2,298 | AmazonRead more... Go to Source

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet Nails the Planetary Problems But Misses the Political Ones David Attenborough is 93. Over the course of his lifetime, the beloved natural historian and broadcaster has seen the planet go through unimaginable changes. Atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases have soared, as has the human population, while biodiversity has declined precipitously. He details these shifts…Read more... Go to Source

Get Ready for The Haunting of Bly Manor With Its Ominous Opening Credits The Haunting of Bly Manor comes to Netflix as a sort of pseudo-sequel to Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting of Hill House. It’s as good a time as any to whet your appetite just a little bit more. Read more... Go to Source

Sunday's Best Deals: Samsung 82-Inch QLED 4K TV, Capresso H20 Plus Kettle, Tonor Condenser Mic, Blue Light Glasses, RGB PC Tower Cases, and More A Tonor condenser microphone and a Samsung 82-inch QLED 4K smart tv lead Saturday’s best deals.Read more... Go to Source

Say Goodbye to Eye Fatigue With Some Blue Light Glasses, Only $14 TIJN Blue Light Glasses | $14 | AmazonRead more... Go to Source