Why Do Smartphones Charge So Much Slower as the Battery Nears Full?
Have you ever noticed how your smartphone seems to charge relatively fast until you hit around 80% charged? Getting to 100% takes a lot longer, and...
Meet Lightway, a Speedy Open-Source VPN Protocol, Available Now
ExpressVPN is looking to change the VPN game with its new Lightway protocol. Rather than using OpenVPN, L2TP, or one of the other popular protocols, ExpressVPN opted...
7 Short Stories About the Inner Lives of Athletes
The 2020 Tokyo Games will be defined by many things—the anachronism of its title, the risk of superspreading, the welcome absence of Matt Lauer—but, hopefully, these...
A Novel About the Anxiety of an Expiring Visa
In YZ Chin’s debut novel, Edge Case, Edwina, a Malaysian woman in New York City, comes home one day to find her husband has left her....
HBO Max’s Woodstock ’99 doc carefully traces back the roots of white, male rage
Content Warning: Woodstock ’99: Peace, Love, and Rage features explicit scenes and descriptions of sexual assault. Everyone remembers the fires. But do you know the story...
What ‘The Suicide Squad’ mid- and end credits scenes mean for the DCCU
C’mon, you knew they weren’t really dead. At the end of The Suicide Squad (2021) — James Gunn’s triumphant reboot-sequel hybrid, which finally gives DC Comics’...
10 More Audiobooks for Women in Translation Month
Book Riot is teaming up with Macmillan’s Nightfire newsletter for a chance to win a Horror Lover’s prize pack containing the following:– $200 Visa gift card–...
Create Your Dream Vacation Trip and We’ll Recommend To You A Book About Girls in STEM
The planet is running out of time—and there is no Planet B. Max Einstein and her friends are World Champions in this newest adventure, where they: GET...
17 Star Wars Books for Kids
One of my favorite things about the Star Wars galaxy is the expansiveness of it. After I fell in love with the movies (fairly late, I...
Buying Books Like I’m Immortal: Death and the TBR
I’ve been buying books like never before. Buying books is a pleasure, a joy, a release. It’s a way to feel like I’m buying possibilities for...
