An all-in-one Lightning and microUSB cable is a smart idea, and potentially a familiar-sounding one, because back in 2016 another company tried to crowdfund a similar solution. The LMcable ultimately had its funding suspended by Kickstarter, and no products were delivered to its backers, so why should you trust the inCharge Dual Indiegogo campaign to…

Babies hiding under an adult killdeer.Photo: Ryan Hodnett (Wikimedia Commons) Birds couldn’t care less about your human entertainment, and a killdeer certainly isn’t going to change its breeding plans to accommodate Ottawa’s annual Bluesfest music festival. CNN reports: This year, preparations for the festival are on hold to protect one very special attendee: a mother…

Photo: Getty It’s not like I’m spending my whole paycheck on Amazon orders, either. Most of my orders are in the $50 range, and most of the stuff I buy, I could also buy locally and carry home in my backpack. The one big, inconvenient thing I ordered was a TV that would have been…

Image: ArtUs Restauración Patrimonio You alright, Spain? In what is most certainly a contender for worst art restoration project, a 500-year-old wooden effigy of San Jorge de Estella in the Spanish city of Estella-Lizarra has been, uh, restored by a “handicrafts teacher,” according to the Guardian. The end result isn’t a pretty sight, and has…

To comply with anti-counterfeiting rules, new coins are tested with a non-standard, “dummy” design.Photo: K. Irvine/NIST As the value of precious metals fluctuates over time, the U.S. Mint has to constantly find new ways to keep currency manufacturing affordable. A five-cent nickel that costs as much as seven cents to make is a problem, but…