-
KFC Indien Introducerer Amazon Dash-Lignende Knapper for Én-Tryk her for Bestilling
KFC er ved at indføre Amazon Dash-som fysiske knapper, der gør bare én opgave: at gøre det døde simpelt at bestille dine foretrukne snacks og drikkevarer fra fastfood-gigant. Tilgængelig i begrænsede mængder for at vælge kunder, knapperne er designet til at gøre måltider lettere end nogensinde at bestille end de apps, du bruger i øjeblikket.…
-
Google’s Got a Plan to Put Its Splashy AR Powers on Millions of Android Phones
-
After Years of Sabotaging Whalers, This Radical Anti-Whaling Group Is Ending Its Patrols
Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru with a captured minke whale on deck. (Image: Sea Shepherd) For the past 12 years, the anti-whaling organization Sea Shepherd has doggedly tracked and harassed Japanese whalers who it claims are working illegally in the Southern Ocean. Now, the group made famous by the documentary-style TV series Whale Wars says…
-
Scientists Made Music From the Human Microbiome, and It’s Seriously Cool
Image: Wikimedia There are many mysteries of human biology. Among those perhaps least considered, what do our bodies sound like? This was the question on the mind of the founders of Biota Beats, a collective of biologists and biology enthusiasts making music that explores the sound of the human microbiome. David Kong, an MIT synthetic…
-
YouTube Moved the Red Thing and Life Will Never Be the Same
GIF Gif: YouTube As they say: Life comes at you fast. Yesterday, you were looking at a YouTube logo with the red thing on the right side, highlighting the word “Tube.” Today, it’s on the left side, sporting a play icon. It’s a small update to the design of a popular website, you might say.…
-
Scientists Think They Know Why the Caspian Sea Is Shrinking
Image: Globe Master 3D/Wikimedia Commons The Caspian Sea is about as strange as a body of water gets. Its surface still sits 27.5 meters (90 feet) below sea level, and water doesn’t flow out of it—it’s isolated from the oceans, and relies on a series of Asian rivers to maintain its levels. A team of…
-
Harvey Just Broke the Record for Wettest Tropical Storm in US History
Water from Addicks Reservoir flows into neighborhoods as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rise August, 29, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) The National Weather Service is reporting 49.32 inches of total rainfall at a site southeast of Houston, which now marks the greatest accumulation of rainfall ever recorded in the contiguous United States…
-
People Stopped Going to Best Buy So Now Best Buy Will Come to You
Photo: Getty If you’ve always dreamt of a trained Best Buy employee entering your home and telling you which electronic products you need, you are in luck, my friend. Starting this fall, you can beckon a Best Buy salesperson to your house, where they’ll try to sell you Best Buy products at no extra cost.…
-
Scientists Bust Up Black Hole Theory Using World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Machine
-
Add A Potential Bribery Investigation to The List of Things Uber’s New CEO Has to Worry About
Image: Getty “I’m in it to get my hands dirty,” Uber’s new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told Bloomberg on Tuesday. Lucky for Khosrowshahi, he could have a foreign bribery scandal on his hands. Sounds plenty dirty to me. According to the Wall Street Journal, Uber is cooperating with the Department of Justice on a preliminary investigation…