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Tech Hacks

How to see everything Facebook knows about you, and what you can do about it

The social media behemoth is watching.

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Gear

The best dog coats

Keep your furry friend warm and happy this winter with some of the best dog coats available.

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Internet

Is online gaming a good way for lonely young men to find friends?

It certainly helps, but probably should not be a complete replacement for IRL relationships.

A patient and a group of researchers working on tech that can help a person with ALS speak
AI

How AI-powered brain implants are helping an ALS patient communicate

The Stanford research involves an algorithm that interprets brain signals and then tries to translate them into words.

Complete your tool set with one of the best impact drivers.
Home

The best impact drivers

When it's time to drive fasteners into wood, these are the tools you should reach for first—you know the drill.

SpaceX rocket docked at launch pad
Technology

DOJ is suing SpaceX for years of workplace discrimination

A new lawsuit claims Elon Musk and other SpaceX employees routinely and illegally prevented asylum seekers and refugees from obtaining employment opportunities.

A NASA illustration of two astronauts in white spacesuits drilling into red Martian dirt.
Mars

To create a small Mars colony, leave the jerks on Earth

Agreeable personality traits helped keep things running smoothly in new simulations of Martian communities.

Japan begins releasing treated Fukushima waste water into the Pacific Ocean
Engineering

Japan begins releasing treated Fukushima waste water into the Pacific Ocean

Despite numerous experts' confirmation of the project's safety, China instituted a ban on 'aquatic products' from Japan.

Two women sitting on a couch using a Windows computer.
Tech Hacks

7 hidden Windows features you should be using

There's more to Microsoft's operating system than meets the eye.

A portion of the far side of the Moon looms large just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this image taken November 21, 2022, by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays. The darkest spot visible near the middle of the image is Mare Orientale.
NASA

You might be able to plant a tree from seeds NASA flew by the moon

Roughly 2,000 seeds were flown on the Artemis I mission. The seeds will now become official Moon Trees here on Earth.

Wing's drone with a walmart box
Drones

Walmart and Wing join forces for drone deliveries in Texas

The service will operate between 10:30am and 6:30pm every day except Wednesday. 

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Moons

The upcoming ‘blue supermoon’ will be the biggest of the year

It's about as blue as a 'pink moon' is pink and a 'black moon' is black.

A woman holds a red smoothie in a glass with a handle on it and a stainless steel straw sticking out. A group of ‘forever chemicals’ commonly called PFAS were not detected on the stainless steel straws in this study, but were on 18 out of 20 brands of paper straws.
Pollution

‘Forever chemicals’ detected in paper and plastic straws

A small study suggests that stainless steel straws may be safest option to avoid PFAS.

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Technology

Some space junk just got smacked by more space junk, complicating cleanup

The European Space Agency hopes to demonstrate space junk removal in 2026—but now they have to recalibrate after their target got hit with debris.

Portrait of a little boy underwater crying
Health

Crying is good for you. Even underwater.

Tears are vital to maintaining healthy eyes, even when you are asleep at night or swimming in a pool.

Offshore wind turbines
Renewables

We can’t ignore that offshore wind farms are part of marine ecosystems

Offshore wind farms can create their own local climates and may alter currents. How does that affect marine life around them?

F-150 Lightning Platinum Black edition
Electric Vehicles

Ford’s matte-black, $100K Lightning pickup will be hot hot hot (literally)

The limited-edition electric vehicle is wrapped in black vinyl.

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Laptops

The best business laptops

Whether you're a corporate raider or an aspiring influencer, these laptops can do the work.

A sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images from 1994 to 2020 that chronicles the waxing and waning of the amount of cloud cover on Neptune. This long set of observations shows that the number of clouds grows increasingly following a peak in the solar cycle.
Solar System

What the heck is up with Neptune’s dark spots?

The ice giant’s atmosphere has been acting a little strange lately and astronomers are figuring out why.

An illustration of the ESA Solar Orbiter craft monitoring our giant orange sun.
Sun

Mini jets of energy could power the sun’s violent winds

These flares can drag charged particles through holes in the solar atmosphere and out into space.