Image: Apple Apple has been relatively quiet about hardware since it released new iPad Pros back in the fall. But if a handful of new rumors are true, we could see a variety of new products launch this spring, including second-generation AirPods, a new tablet, and maybe even Apple’s long-awaited wireless charging pad. Starting with…

The sunset on Mars from Gale Crater, as photographed by Curiosity rover.Photo: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Curiosity, MastCam, NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Texas A&M Univ. Remember Mars One, that company we all knew was a scam but still kinda hoped was real because of how much we liked the movie The Martian? Yeah, it went bankrupt. Mars One was…

A health worker is sprayed with disinfectant after working in an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Eastern Congo.Image: Al-hadji Kudra Maliro (AP) The latest update on the current outbreak of Ebola ravaging Africa shows the situation there continues to worsen. This past weekend, the Health Ministry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reported…

Photo: Thomas Kronsteiner (Getty) Internet providers in Russia are preparing to conduct exercises that will help the nation build a path toward possible internet independence, according to Russian news reports. Russian news outlet RosBiznesKonsalting reported the tests were set in motion by a proposed law called the Digital Economy National Program, which parliament introduced last…

Screenshot: John L. Scott Real Estate If you have ever, for some ungodly reason, desired to live in Jeff Bezos’s old house—well you can do that now, for the low, low price of just under $1.5 million. Per the Seattle Times, the three-bedroom, 1.75 bathroom residence on Northeast 28th Street in West Bellevue in the…

Photo: Paul Sakuma (AP) If you’re like me, you think of LinkedIn as the last place you want to spend time online. It’s chock full of spam, vaguely business-themed blog posts that range from the utterly interminable and insights no one asked for to bizarre rants, and UI decisions that seem designed to conjure up…

A Siberian tiger at the Heilongjiang Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin, China, in 2017.Photo: Kevin Frayer (Getty Images) A person who entered an abandoned house in Houston’s Harrisburg/Manchester neighborhood looking for a quiet place to toke found a tiger instead, KPRC-TV reported on Monday. According to KPRC, the anonymous tipster understandably believed they were hallucinating…