Monday, March 17, 2025

Technology

15 Best Hair Straighteners We’ve Tested (2023): Flat Irons, Hot Combs, and Straightening Brushes

A lot of hot hair tools, including most on our list, claim to release negative ions to protect your hair. I used to chalk this up to marketing-speak, but hairstylists I spoke with say ions are helpful.London-based hairstylist Hollie...

Netflix Just Shipped Its Last DVD. The Algorithms Won

Collectively, separately, Netflix’s film nerds mourn. On X/Twitter, and in think pieces, and in private moments, they let out a collective sigh knowing that they’ll never see a red-wrapped DVD in their mailboxes again. For some 25 years, the...

7 Best Bike Locks (2023): U-Locks, Chain Locks, and Tips

Whichever lock you go with, make sure it can loop around your lock-up point—a bike rack, a secure fence—and through the triangular part of your bike frame, plus the spokes of your rear wheel. The photo above shows this...

Hey Zuck, Get Those Robots out of My Social Feed

Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote presentation at the Meta Connect event this week started late. The delay was on-brand for the company’s decade-long project to make virtual reality mainstream. Back in 2014, a demo of the then-primitive Oculus VR headset hit...

Which Spider-Man Is Stronger: Tobey Maguire or Tom Holland?

Although Spider-Man started as a comic book character, he has made his way to live-action video several times. I remember seeing him appear on The Electric Company in the 1970s for a short skit; it was cool but a...

The Rebel Drone Maker of Myanmar

“We needed weapons, and we needed them fast,” 3D says, sitting beneath the stalactites in a dimly lit cave, somewhere deep in the jungle in eastern Myanmar. The space reverberates with the hum of 3D printers—the devices that gave...

A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations

Every year between September and December, Lubna Dada makes clouds. Dada, an atmospheric scientist, convenes with dozens of her colleagues to run experiments in a 7,000-gallon stainless steel chamber at CERN in Switzerland. “It's like science camp,” says Dada,...

The Global Victims of FTX’s Collapse Won’t Get their Day in Court

At first, Anand thought it was just a glitch. He’d read a few tweets saying that withdrawals from FTX—then the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world—had been suspended. But these things had happened before in the crypto market, he...

7 Best National Coffee Day Deals (2023: Espresso Machines and Coffee Beans

National Coffee Day is here! The annual event celebrates coffee roasters, brewers, makers, and drinkers. Thankfully the way a lot of companies choose to observe this most hallowed of days is by offering coffee deals and cheap (or free)...

‘Ready for some help?’: how a controversial technology firm courted Portland police

On 5 February 2022, police in Portland, Oregon, sent out a bulletin pleading with the public for information about a recent homicide case. Police had found Corey M Eady injured with several gunshot wounds, and the 44-year-old had died...
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Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: 10 Things You Didn’t See on TV

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Kendrick Lamar Appears to Wear ‘A-Minor’ Chain, Recites Lyric During Super Bowl Set: Fans React

The entire stadium sang the controversial "Not Like Us" line in unison.

10 Best Super Bowl Commercials in 2025, Ranked

Bad Bunny, Becky G, Seal, Ludacris and more musical stars appeared in ads during the big game.

Watch Kendrick Lamar Diss Drake, Perform With SZA & More at the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show

Even if you tuned in to watch Kendrick Lamar‘s electrifying 2025 Super Bowl...

Best Restaurants in the Seattle International District

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