A big change to how solar energy is measured in California goes into effect tomorrow, reframing how economical it may be for many homeowners to buy a system in the largest solar market in the US. Previously, whatever excess energy a photovoltaic system generated was fed back to the grid and the homeowner received a near […]
On TikTok, on Instagram — everywhere really — there is a new type of Guy. There’s always a new genre of Guy. Historically, but especially in the past five years, men have begun to coagulate — merge, if you will — around singular, unified identities that bond them in spaces both real and virtual. We have […]
So you’ve decided to invite Amazon’s smart assistant into your home? How hospitable. And if you’d like Alexa’s smarts inside a smart display, this is the list you need: we’ve tested every Echo Show in Amazon’s line-up, to help you pick your perfect smart home device. If you’d prefer an Echo that’s audio-only, be sure […]
Who says sequels are never better than the originals? People who’ve never used Apple’s AirPlay 2, that’s who. OK, so it’s no blockbuster movie, but AirPlay 2 is a blockbuster feature. It evolved from AirTunes, which was designed to stream audio from iTunes to AirPort Express. In 2010, AirPlay expanded the concept so you could send audio and video […]
G-Shock has announced its latest G-SQUAD watch lineup, the DW-H5600. Each item in the collection features the iconic square form of the original G-SHOCK, but with updated features inside, including optional sensors to measure heart rate. With smartphone connectivity, the newest member of the G-SQUAD series arrives just in time for G-Shock’s 40th birthday. Slightly […]
You might expect a comic book series featuring art generated entirely by artificial intelligence technology to be full of surreal images that have you tilting your head trying to grasp what kind of sense-shifting madness you’re looking at. Not so with the images in The Bestiary Chronicles, a free, three-part comics series from Campfire Entertainment, […]
A pair of 2,000-gallon water tanks standing 15 feet tall occupy a cordoned-off portion of a parking lot down the street from Georgia Tech University’s Carbon Neutral Energy Solutions Laboratory. They’re being used to grow algae, but in an extreme and novel way. Clear bags filled with a green, mucousy substance float in water while […]
Two weeks after Twitter was taken over by its new owner, it finally appeared on select high-profile accounts: Elon Musk’s new gray check mark and an “official” label underneath a user’s screen name. And so began a bright and shiny new era of verified accounts and an end, finally, to impersonators everywhere. Yeah, right. This […]
Between black holes devouring smallish stars and vacant space surrounding busy, bursting nebulas, caverns of darkness in our universe are often relieved by glimmers of light. Such poetic juxtaposition is starkly apparent in one of NASA’s latest Hubble Space Telescope images. Last week, the agency released an ethereal view of galactic triplet Arp 248, also […]
The Taurids aren’t even peaking yet, but already there’s been an uptick in fire in the sky as astronomers anticipate a celestial outburst this month. Every year right around now, Earth drifts through a cloud of debris left behind by Comet 2P/Encke that’s associated with the Taurid meteor shower. And every seven years or so, […]
