Enlarge / The Velomobile Bülk, with its hood in place. Note the hood has an anti-fog covering on the visor (which is flipped up). The two bumps near the front of the hood are there to improve clearance for the cyclist’s knees. JOHN TIMMER reader comments 56 My brain registered that I was clearly cycling. ..
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Enlarge / We’d like to avoid this. Science Photo Library/Andrzej Wojcicki/Getty Images reader comments 47 In 2005, the United States Congress laid out a clear mandate: To protect our civilization and perhaps our very species, by 2020, the nation should be able to detect, track, catalog, and characterize no less than 90 percent of all ..
Enlarge / Apple’s latest iPad Air, now in two sizes. The Magic Keyboard accessory is the same one that you use with older iPad Airs and Pros, though they can use the new Apple Pencil Pro. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 165 Apple has a new lineup of iPad Pro and Air models for the first ..
Enlarge / Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is lifted to be placed atop an Atlas V rocket for its first crewed launch. United Launch Alliance reader comments 131 NASA’s senior leaders in human spaceflight gathered for a momentous meeting at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, DC, almost exactly ten years ago. These were the people who, for ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Beata Zawrzel reader comments 135 No car company in recent years has been able to generate more news headlines than Tesla. Its original founders were among the very first to realize that lithium-ion laptop cells were just about good enough to power a car, assuming you put enough of ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 54 Telecom provider CenturyLink left a couple in Oregon without landline phone service for two months, then sent a bill for $239. CenturyLink customer Kirstin Appel and her husband live in Banks, a city with fewer than 2,000 residents in Oregon’s Tualatin Valley. They keep a landline for ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 41 People have been leaving public messages since the first artists painted hunting scenes on cave walls. But it was the invention of electricity that forever changed the way we talked to each other. In 1844, the first message was sent via telegraph. Samuel Morse, who created the ..
Enlarge / More players have been emerging from this vault lately than have in years. Samuel Axon reader comments 21 War never changes, but Fallout 76 sure has. The online game that launched to a negative reception with no NPCs but plenty of bugs has mutated in new directions since its 2018 debut. Now it’s ..
Aurich Lawson reader comments 41 “Gadgets aren’t fun anymore,” sighed my wife, watching me tap away on my Palm Zire 72 as she sat on the couch with her MacBook Air, an iPhone, and an Apple Watch. And it’s true: The smartphone has all but eliminated entire classes of gadgets, from point-and-shoot cameras to MP3 ..
Enlarge (credit: Qualcomm) Signs point to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors showing up in actual, real-world, human-purchasable computers in the next couple of months after years of speculation and another year or so of hype. For those who haven’t been following along, this will allegedly be Qualcomm’s first Arm processor for Windows PCs that does ..