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  • Thief Stole Backpack and Wedding Ring From Dying Portland Hero After Terrorist Attack [Update: They Arrested Him]

    Surveillance footage of the alleged thief who Portland Police believe stole Ricky Best’s backpack and wedding ring off his dead body (Screenshot from YouTube) Ricky John Best was one of two men who died at the hands of a white supremacist on a Portland train last week. Best intervened when he saw the terrorist, 35-year-old…

  • The Paris Agreement Is Not an Anti-American Conspiracy, You Senseless, Screaming Cheese Grit 

    Screengrab: White House/Youtube On Thursday, President Trump announced the US was withdrawing from the landmark Paris Agreement, a commitment between 195 countries to tackle climate change. Outrage was swift and uncompromising. The secretary-general for the United Nations called the move “a major disappointment,” SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk resigned from his advisory position at…

  • Scientists Reignite Thirty-Year-Old Debate About Glass With New Calculation

    Image: Flickr/H.Adam Mathematics is far more fraught with debate and disagreement than you might imagine. Arguments about things some of the smartest physicists have trouble understanding rage for years. Recently, a pair of mathematicians ignited some old flames—or rather, shattered some glass—with a new set of results that, if correct, have far-reaching implications in physics…

  • Dozens of Cities and States Are Initiating Rogue One, Planning to Independently Rejoin the Paris Agreement 

    AP Former New York City major, Michael Bloomberg, is coordinating an effort among 30 mayors, three governors, 80 university presidents and over 100 businesses to independently align with the Paris Agreement’s goal of curbing US carbon emissions, the New York Times reported Friday. Additionally, 83 mayors have signed the Climate Mayors Agreement, similarly with the…

  • Researchers Used Rideshare Service To Test a Stingray-Detecting Device 

    Photo: Getty Researchers at the University of Washington are developing tech to detect the use of a controversial device used by law enforcement to track and surveil cellphones. Recently, the researchers conducted tests in Seattle and Milwaukee over a two-month period, paying rideshare service drivers $25 a week to haul around a device which may…

  • Neptune’s Rings Are Tragically Underrated

    A Voyager 2 snap of Neptune’s rings. (Image: NASA/JPL) Neptune’s rings (which are a few thousand kilometers wide each, at most), while much less broad than Saturn’s (about 175,000 miles, or 282,000 km across), are still pretty fascinating. The outermost ring, called “Adams,” has three unusual arcs known as Liberty, Equality and Fraternity (shoutout to…

  • The More Female Dumpling Squids Bone, the Sooner They Die

    Image: Mark Norman / Museum Victoria/Wikimedia Commons Female dumpling squids just can’t catch a break—mating is awful for them. Insemination can induce physical trauma, take a long time, and sometimes the male will just keep boning the female while predators are around. Poor, tiny little boning dumpling squids. Given the apparent horrors of sex, some…

  • Nubien Z17 Med 8GB RAM og Qualcomm Hurtigt Oplade 4+ Lanceret

    Ved et arrangement i Beijing, ZTE mærke Nubien har afsløret sin nyeste premium-tilbud – Nubien Z17. Din smartphone er store højdepunkter er den dobbelte opsætning af kameraet på bagsiden, Snapdragon 835 SoC, Android 7.1.1 Nougat, og bliver den første smartphone med understøttelse af Qualcomm ‘ s nyligt annonceret, Hurtig Opladning 4+. Den Nubien Z17 er…

  • Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, Redmi 4A til at Gå Op for Pre-Ordrer i Indien i Dag

    Xiaomi, som den gør hver fredag, vil i dag gøre Redmi Note 4 og Redmi 4A til rådighed for pre-orders på Mi.com. Selskabets pre-order system, der blev startet tilbage i Marts, og det giver potentielle købere en garanteret måde at købe smartphones, uden besværet med at stå i kø op til ugentlige flash salg. Dem,…

  • LG Betaler Lancerer Sin Mobil-Betalinger Service, G6 at Få Støtte Første

    I Marts i år, har LG annonceret, at selskabet vil lancere sin egen betalinger service – kaldet LG Pay – to rivaliserende dem, der tilbydes af andre store spillere, herunder Samsung og Apple. I den tid, LG sagde, at Sydkorea vil være det første land til at få støtte til sin betalingstjenester i juni og…