Remarkable that you can insert politics into an almost entirely apolitical article. Are you alright? That reaction seems a bit misplaced, perhaps even obsessive. I found our last president repugnant as well but to categorize all of his supporters as obtuse is lazy and, unfortunately, inaccurate. A thought: instead of…
I think it was just poorly phrased. The CMB is around 13.7 billion years old, or read the other way, around 300k to 400k years after the sudden inflation.
Great article, Ryan.
Easily one of the best science essays I’ve read on here in sometime.
Damn fine article. Next time somebody wants to know why science is just freakin’ cool, I’m pointing them here.
Science and technology have evolved, but some things may always be beyond human knowledge.
Bought it 1 year ago to use with my new MacBook Air 2020. I also took the DVD drive from my dead 2011 MacBook and bought an enclosure and connected it to the MBA. Works great.
Ha. Good point. I do pop it out now and again to clean, because my god does a lot of gunk get in there. And usually a case does not last as long as the phone. My current phone is a year old and I’ve already gone through two cases and four glass screen covers. I apparently lead an exciting life (doesn’t feel that…
Eventually I expect a huge push to severely regulate or even outlaw contraception. I got my tubes tied over twenty years ago, arranged to have it done immediately following my second C section. I was a married mother of two, and it was still an incredible hassle just to convince people that yes, at 39 years of age I…
Gizmodo’s continuing insistence that “phone cases are bad, actually” is so bizarre. And it underscores they live in a world where phone companies send them free fucking phones to use.
For the rest of us, a case that protects a $1,000 object that many of us rely on for work, family and more, and which comes in and out…
I thought it was pretty clear that the article was relating the “snitch hotline” aspect of the current Texas law with other examples of digital surveillance, not arguing that they both use the same mechanism. No, the Texas law doesn’t use your online activity/data against you in a criminal case but the intent was to…
I’m just amazed how the pro-forced birth people can get away with anything (both in the real world and digital world), but those of us who are pro-choice can’t.
The digital platforms people rely on to access or learn about abortion are also being wielded to spy on and punish…
Bringing back extinct species... like we don’t have an entire movie franchise on why that’s a really bad idea!
This is ludicrous and against any level of common sense to even suggest that stepping into a a street without looking would not lead to an accident even with the most advanced AI that could ever exist. If self-driving cars had to take into account all the idiots potentially doing such reckless actions... they would…
Kind of ironic that the image matched with “haptic suits” is that of a sexy young woman, when the actual customers for that product will be flabby men who want to more vividly imagine that they’re getting with that sexy young woman.
If only there were some cool new technology that would allow multiple images with accompanying text on a single webpage, instead of a slide show!
i bet slideshows didnt make the list.