Dune Series SDCC 2021 Panel Gives Us More of the Atreides Family Saga
I read Frank Herbert’s Dune as a teenager and it ran through my imagination like no other book before it. It’s only right that I covered...
Oculus’ New Experimental API Blends Virtual Reality With Your Real-World Surroundings
An update for Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality system will let developers incorporate real-life video from the VR headset’s sensors into their games to create “mixed...
The Simpsons Brought an Early Taste of Halloween to SDCC 2021
A new season of The Simpsons arrives with an unerring sense of inevitability at this point, no matter where you sit on the longest-running animated series...
PSA: Google Photos Has “I’m Feeling Lucky” Too
The “I’m Feeling Lucky” button has been a staple on the Google Search home page for years. You might not know, though, that Google uses it...
The DL on CockroachDB
As college students at Berkeley, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis created a successful open-source graphics program, GIMP, which got the attention of Google. The duo ultimately...
Microsoft’s Cutting Edge AI is Relegated to Picking Up Cigarette Butts
Cigarette butts are one of the most littered items in the world, and they’re especially hard to clean up on a hot, sandy beach. To help...
How to Share iPhone Health Data with Family and Doctors
Your health data recorded from the Apple Watch and iPhone gets stored in the Health app for iPhone. As long as your iPhone (and the recipient’s)...
First look at Mars’s interior reveals a different picture than Earth
The mystery of Mars’s interior has been revealed thanks to marsquakes. Using data compiled by NASA’s InSight mission that has detected hundreds of marsquakes since landing...
Cheers, Ted Lasso, for getting the UK basically right
There’s a scene at the start of Season 1 of Ted Lasso (which just returned for an equally triumphant Season 2) where my wife and I,...
SDCC 2021’s Eisner Award Winners: Klan Smashing, Rabbit Samurai, and More
Beloved voice actor Phil LaMarr picked up hosting duties at last night’s virtual Eisner Awards at San Diego Comic-Con 2021. Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru were...
