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It’s that time of year again: “spring forward, fall back.” Losing an hour of sleep is what most people hate about daylight saving time. But the extra sunlight is often a blessing for those who hate leaving work in the dark. Do you ever wonder why we have daylight saving time, and if it actually …
November 3, 2017 | by RaheelThe Xbox One X was designed with beefy hardware in order to make games look better and load faster than they ever could on the original Xbox One. But exactly how much better and faster? DigitalFoundry put the two systems to the test, running the same games on both systems and showing them off side-by-side. …
November 3, 2017 | by RaheelThere are lots of reasons Thor: Ragnarok works as well as it does: a ridiculously talented director, an deep bench of charismatic supporting stars, an eye-popping array of costumes and sets, a killer synth-heavy score, a franchise-making machine well-honed after nine years and 17 films. The biggest reason, though, may be that Thor: Ragnarok finally …
November 3, 2017 | by RaheelGetting medical cannabis in some states is harder than others. Apparently it’s so difficult in Pennsylvania that dudes are calling up an OB-GYN in an attempt at getting their hands on the stick icky. After some local press revealed that Dr. Liang Bartkowiak of Altoona, Pennsylvania was licensed to prescribe medical marijuana, her office became …
November 3, 2017 | by RaheelWant to own a piece of history that makes you weep with adoration each time you look at it? Well, you’re in luck! Beyoncé is auctioning the wide-brimmed black hat she wore on her Formation Tour. To sweeten the deal, Bey has signed the hat and blessed it with a kind message (“All my love”)Per …
November 3, 2017 | by RaheelZeynep Tufekci tried to tell us. She tried to tell us in November 2012, just after Barack Obama beat out Mitt Romney for a second term as president of the United States. Obama’s win was credited in part to a sophisticated online campaign that used heaps of data on millions of Americans to target digital …
November 3, 2017 | by RaheelThere may be untapped millions to be made in the clearance racks of your local Walmart. That’s according to a 28-year-old former accountant who told CNBC that he makes six figures raiding the big-box store’s discount aisles and flipping the items on Amazon. Ryan Grant told the site he simply browses the store, smartphone in …
November 3, 2017 | by RaheelThe iPhone 8 may have been filled with the expected kit, but we’ve all been looking forward to finding out what fun Apple’s engineers had putting together the all-new iPhone X — and it doesn’t disappoint. iFixit’s excellent-as-always teardown finds a wealth of strange new components inside the biggest redesign of the device in years. …
November 3, 2017 | by RaheelGlobal warming is real. It’s happening because of human activities, and it’s on the cusp of pushing the climate toward tipping points or other “unforeseen consequences” that could reshape the planet as we know it, warns a new federal report released on Friday. The report, part of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, is mandated by …
November 3, 2017 | by RaheelNiantic, the company behind the hit mobile game Pokémon Go and its predecessor, Ingress, announced today it has acquired the team from the startup Evertoon to help it further build out its mobile products. Deal terms were not disclosed, but from how it’s described, the move seems to be more of an acqui-hire focused on …
November 3, 2017 | by Raheel