How Much Worse Could This Measles Outbreak Get?
As of this week, there have been 695 cases of measles in the U.S. across more than 20 states this year—the highest annual toll seen since...
Why are people still giving Magic Leap money?
If Magic Leap fails, the skeptics will at least have to admire the AR startup’s keen ability to raise vast amounts of capital. The company announced...
PayPal makes a big marketplace play with its $500M investment in Uber
Uber’s announcement of its IPO pricing earlier today came with a $500 million belated Easter egg. The payments giant PayPal is making a half-billion-dollar investment in...
Some Asshole Tried to Burn Down the National Archives
An unidentified asshole set fire to the U.S. National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. last night around 8:00 pm ET. Thankfully, no one was hurt, but...
How Physicists Measured the Rarest Event Ever Directly Observed
This past week, scientists announced that they’d made an incredible physics observation using a vat of liquid xenon. It’s officially the rarest nuclear decay—and really, the...
In Its Race to Be First, Samsung Screwed Itself
The Samsung Galaxy Fold may be an incredible step forward in phone engineering, but it is unfinished. That became clear when, earlier this week, Samsung announced...
Stop Everything You’re Doing and Buy This Giant Duck Pool Float for $10
I don’t care if you don’t own a pool or you don’t know anyone who has a pool. This $10 float is something everyone needs to...
The Orville Wraps Up a Strong Second Season With Its Most Ambitious Episode Yet
The Orville has never been shy about paying homage to its sci-fi influences. But while last night’s season finale made use of one of the genre’s...
TurboTax and H&R Block hide their free tax filing tools from Google on purpose
Low-income Americans can file their taxes for free, but odds are they ended up paying anyway. ProPublica found that tax-filing giant Intuit is deliberately concealing search...
New York AG’s Report Untethers Bizarre Cryptocurrency Scheme
The wildly fluctuating prices of cryptocurrencies are a feature not a bug, where speculators are concerned. That’s always made the proposition of the alleged “stablecoin” Tether...
