Splinter If this is Boban’s NBA sendoff, then he can safely say he had one of the most successful NBA careers of the 21st century, proving that there is more to life than basketball, like free chicken.
Groovy Post A new version of iOS has arrived, and this one has some great features. Here are 8 features you should try first in iOS 18.
AV Club Stefani describes her upcoming album, Bouquet, as "yacht rock, though it wasn’t called yacht rock then"
Den of Geek This article contains spoilers for Agatha All Along, WandaVision, and Doctor Strange 2. The first episode of Agatha All Along has brought Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) back…in a way. While still under Wanda’s spell in episode 1, the true crime...
In These Times Refusing to endorse a presidential candidate will do nothing to stop Trump and the GOP’s war on workers.
Splinter The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is, once again, not doing so hot. A team of scientists known as the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration met this week in the U.K., and offered a summary of their six years of work studying an...
Splinter Whether Gaetz himself is implicated in this is left to the courts to decide, but what's clear at this point is that there is more than enough smoke around these stories to suggest there is some kind of fire beneath it that urgently needs to be put...
Technology Review This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI models let robots carry out tasks in unfamiliar environments What’s new: It’s tricky to get robots to do...
Geek Feed Chris Columbus and his team had caught lightning in a bottle when they cast Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint in the first Harry Potter movie, but what’s crazy is that his decision for choosing the main trio was highly influenced by...
Propublica by Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Oregon Public...
BBC - Innovation The company has apologised to Sky Glass and Sky Stream customers encountering issues.
Geek Feed The start of the year had reported that Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson was going to be delayed indefinitely, and fans were worried they would have to wait a little longer before they would get to see the film. As it turns out,...
Splinter We have been besieged by half-measures, given means-tested scraps, and this promised “Opportunity Economy” feels depressingly like more of the same. We deserve something real and something better. And those peddling this rehashed, warmed-over slop...
The Next Web German startup DeepDrive has bagged €30mn to scale up its electric motor technology that promises to boost EV range to over 800km — without any changes to battery capacity. Founded in 2021, DeepDrive claims its dual-rotor motor boasts the highest...
Technology Review It’s tricky to get robots to do things in environments they’ve never seen before. Typically, researchers need to train them on new data for every new place they encounter, which can become very time-consuming and expensive. Now researchers have...
Splinter In the hands of foreign actors — be they those in the “democracies” of the United States and the European Union, or those in the autocracies of the world — Israel’s weapons are being used against vulnerable people that the ruling classes no longer...
BBC - Innovation Sustainable aviation fuels work, but can they be made in sufficient quantity to replace fossil fuels?
Technology Review This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. September will soon be drawing to a close. The kids are back...
Splinter The home of the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history is back on the map. One reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, decommissioned in 2019 after 45 years of service featuring one partial meltdown to its other reactor in 1979, will...
BBC - Europe Activists said Kesaria Abramidze had been a "trailblazing" transgender leader in the South Caucasus country.
BBC - Innovation The pagers that exploded had labels pointing to a Taiwanese firm - but it denied making the devices.
The Verge - TV Shows Netflix The second and final season of Netflix’s Arcane finally has a concrete release date, but it looks like the episodes won’t all be dropping at once. This evening, during the final night of this year’s Geeked Week showcase, Netflix and...
The Verge - TV Shows Image: Netflix It doesn’t look like Dante has lost a step for his upcoming animated series. Netflix just released a new trailer for its Devil May Cry adaptation, and it includes the kind of absurd, over-the-top demon-hunting action that has...
The Verge - TV Shows Image: Netflix It’s been quite some time since we heard anything about Netflix’s animated adaptation of Splinter Cell — but the streamer has finally provided some details on the show. The reveal comes in the form of a very brief teaser...
The Verge - TV Shows Image: Netflix It’s not clear how much of Avatar: The Last Airbender’s story Netflix will fit into the next season of its live-action adaptation, but we now know who will be portraying the series’ take on Toph. During Netflix’s ongoing...