How to save a GIF from Twitter
So you saw a fun GIF on Twitter. That’s cool, good for you, seems like fun. Now you want to save it for your own personal use. That’s cool, too, but unfortunately a bit more involved than you might think. The task isn’t difficult, necessarily, but it does take a few more steps than you […]
ExpressVPN review: Fast speed and security make it totally worth the cost
There’s an ongoing quest to improve VPN speeds without sacrificing security features. Just by doing what they need to do, they can slow your connection down in different amounts, depending on which one you use. This means the best VPNs are intuitive, secure, and they do their thing without slowing you down too much. That’s […]
SpaceX produces only 5,000 Starlink dishes per week
SpaceX is reportedly churning out only 5,000 Starlink dishes each week for the satellite internet service. But the company is preparing to boost manufacturing later this year to help meet the massive consumer demand. SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen revealed the manufacturing numbers during Tuesday’s Satellite 2021 conference in Maryland, according to reporters in attendance. Tweet […]
Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 3 is not the future of phones
The new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 might be the best foldable phone to date. And yet, I cannot for the life of me imagine buying one. After years of hype around foldable displays, the “what” has almost never been sufficiently paired with a compelling “why.” Just because tech companies can do something futuristic, that […]
iPhone 14 leaks show Apple ditching the camera bump and that terrible notch
The iPhone 13 hasn’t even been officially unveiled yet — that’s (likely) coming at next week’s Apple event — and we’re already seeing leaks of next year’s phone. A new video posted by Apple leaker Jon Prosser provides some sleek new images of what’s purported to be the iPhone 14, Apple’s 2022 iPhone release. Tweet […]
Twitter's new 'Communities' let users embrace the echo chamber
A new Twitter test launching Wednesday seeks to bring a little focus to the platform. Dubbed Communities, the feature gives invited members the ability to tweet directly to topic-themed groups. Instead of blasting out dog pics to all of their followers, the logic goes, users could instead send them only to the dog-lovers community. “Some […]
How to download a video from Facebook
Facebook is booming with videos: educational videos teaching you to garden or code, those addicting and useless 5-minute craft videos, the very visibly faked videos of people catching their partners cheating on them, aliens caught on film. If there is a craving for content, that content is likely on Facebook in video form. If you […]
Amazon's cashierless tech is coming to Whole Foods stores
A year and a half after Amazon said there were “no plans…for now” to implement its cashierless technology in Whole Foods stores, it’s now happening. Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” technology is coming to Whole Foods in the U.S. starting with two new stores in 2022. Customers will be able to skip the checkouts at a […]
Astronauts threw a pizza party on a space station – Space is Weird
Astronaut Thomas Pesquet aboard the International Space Station threw the crew a “pizza” party, although it wasn’t exactly gourmet pizza. (Think: tortillas and rehydrated beef patties.)
Here's what NASA's first human habitat on Mars could look like
Feast your eyes on the 158-square-meter 3D printed structure that could pave the way for the first human habitat on Mars. The Mars Dune Alpha, a construction collaboration between Bjarke Ingels Group and robotics company ICON, will be used by NASA to test what everyday life on Mars would be like inside such a structure.