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Walmart is on the hunt for its own streaming partnership
The big box giant is rumored to have already met with Disney, Paramount, and Comcast.
The century-old dream of traveling by hovercraft is still alive
These wheelless air cars were all the rage of 1950s and '60s automotive design—and they might be making a comeback.
Why controlling a drone with a laser has its perks—and pitfalls
A recent test from a British firm highlights an innovative way of sending information to a flying machine.
A look inside the design center where Hot Wheels creates its timeless toy cars
The engineers can't just shrink down the real thing. Here's how they actually do it.
WhatsApp users can now ghost group chats and delete messages for days
WhatsApp's latest updates support increased privacy and second-thoughts.
Are participation trophies good for kids?
There are pros and cons to handing out medals to children who haven’t actually won anything.
When an environmental activist needed allies to fight a polluting petrochemical plant, she turned to Vietnamese shrimpers
Starting in the 1970s, Texas fishing communities banded together against Formosa and the Ku Klux Klan. Kirk Wallace Johnson documents it all in his new book.
It’s pretty hard to measure nothing, but these engineers are getting close
The US still uses Cold War-era tech to calibrate vacuums for manufacturing. Is there a more precise (and fun) option out there?
This super-fast jet train would tap into a whole new field of physics
It’s a plane, it’s a train, it’s the hyperloop FluxJet from TransPod.
Meta’s new chatbot is already parroting users’ prejudice and misinformation
Meta asked the internet to help with a new chatbot last Friday. So far, it’s a disaster.