I guess they're comparing it to the MacBook Air, which gets 14 hours, but for a Windows laptop 9.5 is pretty good.

iTunes does still have this feature for Apple Music subscribers like me, and since playlists are synced with iCloud they also appear on my phone.

Oh for fuck’s sake, just stop.

The user rating has already dropped to 79%, and I imagine it will drop further. The funny thing is that statistically, the user rating on Rotten Tomatoes is usually pretty close to the critics’ score. People love to hate critics, but they also tend to agree with them in the end. I also don't think a single online poll…

A liberal city in the Southwest... so, Santa Fe?

I live in NM. Thanks for writing about this, Anna. A couple of things to note: First, given that the dems do control the Senate, I am hopeful this bill will go nowhere when it leaves the House. It’s infuriating, and I’m frustrated that the state is tipping rightward, but the damage is contained for now.

This conversation is frustrating that way, but I think it’s just a result of the fact that black people/POC are not this monolithic mass of people who all want the same things in the same ways. Unfortunately, there is no final authority on the subject of race relations. Most of the academic debate on this takes place…

This is a machine that retailed for $650 when it came out this summer. The specs for the price are really pretty phenomenal, honestly—the screen is low-res, but at 11.6 inches and with IPS it will probably look alright. Battery life is also only 5 hours, though I think I may be able to squeeze out more by installing…

This is a machine that retailed for $650 when it came out this summer. The specs for the price are really pretty…

Venezuela is on the verge of bankruptcy because its government is reliant on oil sales for revenue. Oil prices collapsed, and the government began collapsing too.

Please stop.

More precisely, he is a social democrat, as he doesn’t advocate seizing the means of production or extensive state ownership of property. But as those terms have become interchangeable in colloquial speech, “democratic socialist” is fine too.

Your use of the word “Socialist” as a knee-jerk insult is losing its power, you know. Some of us don’t think socialism of the kind Sanders is espousing is a bad thing at all, a position that puts us in line with much of the developed world. “Socialist” no longer conjures up images of Stalin and the dirty reds for us,…

Well, personally, I feel like this album sounds very unfinished—but I mean that in a good way.

They show Jon Snow and Tyrion. So I guess we can assume now that Jon really is dead and that Tyrion is going to die too. You know, two of the roughly five sympathetic characters that were left on the show.

Analog dick pics! OMG

Wish there was someone who cared about ethics in game journalism to make this a big issue.

In fairness, Ted Cruz does need two watches. One tells the time. The other counts down the days until he assumes the mantle of the Antichrist and opens a portal to the depths of Hell, through which the forces of Satan will emerge to torment mankind and bring about the End of Days.

Yeah, sounds about right. Ergonomics and poor displays have been the two biggest problems with the Oculus from day 1. Early models also had really poor refresh rates and response times, greatly increasing the disorientation and motion sickness that people felt. They’ve improved the ergonomics tremendously and the…

Depending on which dev kit you used, the problem may have been due to the Oculus’ use of PenTile displays. PenTile uses a smaller sub-pixel for the color green, causing a very noticeable “screen door effect” and a significant loss of sharpness and color reproduction at certain resolutions and distances. This was a big…

This picture oh my god I can’t breathe