Bill Gates, John Kerry, and US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm all struck positive notes at an energy summit in Seattle this week hosted by Gates’s climate-focused venture fund, Breakthrough Energy. With caveats. Government policy is accelerating clean energy projects. The cost of renewables continues to fall. Huge sums of private and public capital are pouring…
The Fire HD 8 Plus is a good budget tablet for Amazon-based entertainment, provided you aren’t concerned with accessing Google apps or services. Continue reading… Read More
Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal is key to the company’s mobile gaming efforts. Microsoft is quietly building a mobile Xbox store that will rely on Activision and King games. Continue reading… Read More
The AT Protocol logo aims for a foundational image of the internet. | Image: AT Protocol Bluesky, the project started within Twitter to create a decentralized social network, announced it’s getting closer to actually shipping an app. “Closer” is the operative word here, though. Bluesky only announced that it is building an app, that it’ll…
AI tech like Adobe’s Project Motion Mix could make your still images replicate viral dance moves. | Image: Adobe Adobe will reveal a prototype AI project later today at Adobe Max 2022 that can convert a still image of a person into an animated dancer. Adobe says that all you need to do is load…
Image: Apple The newly redesigned 10.9-inch iPad, barely redesigned iPad Pro, and a spec-bumped Apple TV option didn’t get the full Apple Event fanfare, but we have all the insight you need right here Continue reading… Read More
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If Thanksgiving Day football isn’t enough, Amazon and the NFL want to create a new tradition by airing a Black Friday football game starting next year (via Deadline). The game will take place on November 24th, 2023, at 3PM ET, but it’s too soon to know which teams…
Don’t mind him—just a bat having a quick snack. Christian Ziegler/Minden Pictures | Courtesy of Bat Conservation International The eerie air of autumn has arrived, and bats are everywhere. At the store, you’ll find decor featuring dark flying creatures with razor-sharp fangs ready to suck human blood. But outside, resting in trees and darting across…
Stack Commerce We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Like it or not, temperatures are dropping and autumn will ultimately give way to winter. Rather than wait until chilly mornings and icy evenings, the time is now to take a proactive approach toward…
Popular Science There’s a phrase that rings loudly in the heads of Popular Science editors any time we bring together a new Brilliant 10 class: “They’ve only just begun.” Our annual list of early-career scientists and engineers is as much a celebration of what our honorees have already accomplished as it is a forecast for…