With any trip, even after you redeem your credit card points for travel rewards, you’ll end up with some leftover expenses. You can use points to book a flight or a hotel room, but you can’t call a campground and ask them to pay for your reservation with points. You might be able to redeem
Read MoreAccording to five new meta-analyses, there’s not enough evidence to tell people to avoid eating red meat. Does this mean we’ve been lied to, and steaks were fine all along? Or is this just another flip-flop of the headlines, best ignored? Read more… So Is Red Meat Good for Us Again or What? Source: Life
Read MoreHumans are within years of sending the first crewed mission to Mars. And then what? Maybe another 100 years from now we’ll eventually have the resources to launch deeper crewed missions from there, eventually reaching as far as… somewhere near Neptune. Our current method of space travel simply isn’t good enough to get us out
Read More“I assure you, we’re open,” says the director, citing the famous line from the first film. Kevin Smith confirms Dante and Randal will be back for Clerks III – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHe faces five years for stealing sexually explicit pics. Former Yahoo engineer pleads guilty to hacking 6,000 accounts in hunt for nudes – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSo long, Kings Canyon. Hello, World’s Edge. Apex Legends season 3 is live: World's Edge, Crypto's abilities and everything we know – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAn unusual transcript of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “unfiltered” remarks has surfaced. Facebook's latest leak hints at unrest within the social network – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDyson, maker of very pretty, very effective, and very expensive gadgets that blow air around, today announced its latest air purifying fan, the Pure Cryptomic. Though you might be compelled to think the fan mines bitcoin while providing you with a nice cool breeze, you’d thankfully be mistaken. Instead, the new $650+ fan’s claim to
Read MoreThe company is teaming up with retro gaming platform Antstream Arcade. Atari VCS is getting thousands of retro games – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIf it does choose the direct offering route, Airbnb will follow the footsteps of Slack and Spotify. Airbnb may seek direct offering instead of IPO Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreInternet2 and E&I Cooperative Services have announced a pilot project aimed at providing U.S. higher education institutions with competitively solicited contracts for cloud services. Internet2 and E&I to Collaborate on Cloud Services Contracts Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreEvery time some very kind person mistakenly compliments the cute, anxious-looking Mimikyu tattooed on my forearm for Pikachu, I become giddy because I get to talk about Pokémon’s best. Now, after trailing in Pikachu’s shadow for too long, The Pokémon Company is talking about him, too. The company’s social media team is dedicating the entire
Read MoreIf you were tasked with designing a color video monitor, it’s pretty clear how you’d go about it. But what if you’d been asked to do so 20 years ago? Would it have been a cut and dried from an engineering standpoint? Apparently not, as this hybrid LCD-CRT video monitor demonstrates. We’d honestly never heard
Read MoreSiblings are going to fight. They’re going to poke at each other on long (or short) car rides. They’re going to push to be the first one out the door. They’re going to wrestle for control of the TV remote. After a while, it can start to sound like the regular background noise of a
Read MoreImage: UPS UPS announced that it has received government approval to operate a “drone airline.” Don’t expect your next package to arrive directly on your doorstep by a drone, though: UPS says it will first use this certification to build a drone delivery network for hospital campuses around the US. UPS said in July that
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The internet is real life, but the place where the internet meets real life is still messy as hell. TwitchCon, which was held at San Diego’s convention center this year — the same place where the biggest comic con in America happens every year — is the site
Read MoreLast Sunday evening, I was watching old episodes of the Great British Baking Show with a face mask on, yelling at the TV. A friend of mine is new to the show, so we were catching her up. As one of the contestants was plating their snow egg (a dessert that is inexplicably real), I
Read MoreThe embattled co-working company has lost a CEO and seen its valuation tank over just a few weeks. WeWork says it will withdraw its initial public offering filing, postponing IPO indefinitely Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreOstensibly the ESPboy is an open-source hackable game engine built as an IoT platform for STEM education and play, but there’s no way [RomanS] could have been inspired by anything other than retro gaming consoles from the near past. For anyone who grew up playing with Tamagotchi pets or Palm Pilots, this project is going
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge For more than six years, designer Zach Gage has been toying with an idea for a game where players explore dangerous dungeons, but did so through various cards stacked in a grid, rifling through piles to heal or fight a monster. It’s an idea he played with
Read MoreIn leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg said he would sue over Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up the company. She responded in kind. Zuckerberg Hates Warren’s Plan to Break Up Facebook. She Doesn’t Care. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThis is not normal: A government employee wrote a good memo. Harvard College Writing Center director Jane Rosenzweig praises the nine-page whistleblower complaint against the Trump administration in a New York Times op-ed, listing four techniques that make the complaint clear and effective. Read more… How to Write Like the Whistleblower Source: Life Hacker
Read MorePhoto: Sony Pictures Entertainment In August, Sony and Marvel announced that Spider-Man would no longer be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, due to disagreements about the revenue split between Disney and Sony, and the involvement of MCU architect Kevin Feige. It appeared as if Sony would be taking its own tack on secret superhero
Read MoreSony today revealed it’s repackaging PlayStation Now, halving the price and adding several popular current-gen games. Now the service is priced to compete with its upcoming cloud gaming competition, and it might also survive the transition to the next generation. A monthly payment for PS Now has dropped from $19.99 to $9.99, the same price
Read MoreWhen you base your decision entirely on well-lit photos of furniture, booking an Airbnb is always a gamble. Over on Elliot Advocacy, executive director Michelle Couch-Friedman recounted the story of one traveler who clearly lost this bet when she booked a rental in Paris—only to discover that the listing wasn’t what… Read more… What to
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