Category: General
Faster and stronger lithium-ion batteries might be in our future
This, clearly, isn’t the battery the MIT team is working on. Image: Shutterstock / sdecoret The lithium-ion battery in your phone might look like a solid chunk of energy-producing plastic at first glance, but if you were to bust it open and take a closer look, you’d see there’s also some liquid inside. That’s because […]
Watch Hulu’s Super Bowl spot for original series The Handmaids Tale
Hulu just released a trailer for its adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a science fiction tale in which the U.S. Government has been toppled by a theocratic authoritarian dictatorship and women suffer a horrible revocation of rights. So yeah it’s a little too on the nose right now. Maybe the hope is that […]
Facebook created a horrific dancing monster made of reactions
In a horrific experiment for its 13th birthday, Facebook gave Reactions a hideous humanoid form. Image: Facebook While International Friendship Day was popularized by greeting card companies, Facebook went a step forward and coined its own birthday, Feb. 4 as Friends Day a few years ago. Facebook, which has finally turned old enough to be […]
Snapchat’s Black History Month story asks users to share why they are ‘Young, Black and Proud’
Image: snapchat Snapchat is taking new steps to celebrate Black History Month in its app. The app is rolling out a set special geofilters and launching a new “Our Story” called “Young Black and Proud,” which encourages Snapchat users to share their experiences and what makes them proud, to commemorate Black History Month. SEE ALSO: […]
Wearable tech: This dress uses graphene to light up when you breathe
(CNN)The little black dress just got revamped. Together with scientists, fashion designers have used graphene — a Nobel-Prize winning material that’s tougher than diamonds — to give their LBD a high-tech cut. “We are trying to showcase the amazing properties of graphene,” Francesca Rosella, the co-founder of fashion company CuteCircuit, told CNN. “If you look […]