How to Change a Site’s Camera and Microphone Permissions in Chrome
Google Chrome lets you manage which individual sites can have access to your microphone and camera. If you don’t see any video or the mic isn’t...
Blue Ember XLR Mic Review: It’s Time to Break Away from USB Mics
Blue Microphone The Ember is Blue’s most affordable ($99) XLR microphone designed for “recording and live streaming.” In other words, it’s designed for anyone who likes...
How to Exit the Vi or Vim Editor
The vi editor is confusing if you’re not used to it. It takes a secret handshake to escape this application if you’ve stumbled into it. Here’s...
The Slow Bloom of ‘Suite for Barbara Loden’
This post was produced in partnership with Bloom, a literary site that features authors whose first books were published when they were 40 or older. 1. When...
Rare Recordings of Elusive River Dolphins Show They Are Surprisingly Chatty
Discovered to be a unique species just five years ago, the Araguaian river dolphin of Brazil is a fascinating, yet poorly understood, aquatic creature. As new...
Huge Video-Hosting Site Openload Stops Paying Uploaders
Earlier this month we reported on the plight of Rapidvideo, a popular file-hosting site that specializes in hosting videos. The site previously allowed visitors to view...
A Specter Is Haunting Xi’s China: ‘Mr. Democracy’
Enter Xu Zhangrun. A fifty-six-year-old professor of constitutional law at Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University, Xu is well known in Beijing as a moderate and prolific critic...
20 Years After Columbine, America Is Still Letting Its Kids Die
O n April 20, 1999, a failed bombing planned by two high school seniors at Columbine High School and turned into a shooting with assault rifles...
Geek Trivia: Which Video Game Features A Boss Who Mocks Your Real Life Video Game Preferences?
Which Video Game Features A Boss Who Mocks Your Real Life Video Game Preferences? Dead Space: Extraction Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes Super Mario Sunshine...
Uber’s self-driving car unit raises $1B from Toyota, Denso and Vision Fund ahead of spin-out
Uber’s has confirmed it will spin out its self-driving car business after the unit closed $1 billion in funding from Toyota, auto-parts maker Denso and SoftBank’s...
