The Fall Yard Cleanup Tasks You Should Tackle in September

Fall is majestic. Don't get me wrong, I live in anticipation of summer and the growing season, but Fall is the season that never lets me down. In the Pacific Northwest, where I live, fall is marked by...

Lose Your Cheesemaking Virginity to Chevre

Lose Your Cheesemaking Virginity to Chevre

23 of the Best Boring Movies

Social media movie discourse is at it again. This time around, I'm being horrified by posts from younger moviegoers who freely admit to fast-forwarding through movies to skip past "the boring parts" (...

Venba's Focus on Food and Family Takes Me Back to My Roots

Saniya Ahmed[photo1]Before I could muster up the courage to use the idli maker my mom gave me after I moved out, here I was making idli in a narrative cooking video game. Though Venba's idli maker dif...

Dear Summer Law Associates And Clerks, Here Are 20 Sympathetic Intern Stories To Soothe Your Anxieties

[photo1]"Fate fell short this time / Your smile fades in the summer / Place your hand in mine / I'll leave when I wanna" -- Blink 182As the summer associate season comes to a close, I...

Berkeley Yeast, S2G dish on the future of beer, meat and more at TC Disrupt 2023

In case you missed it, July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. On the bright-ish side, research shows that 69% of Americans want our nation to become carbon neutral by 2050. Achieving ...

Another Crab's Treasure Does What Elden Ring Won't

Geoffrey Bunting[photo1]Even as accessibility becomes more mainstream in gaming, there remain holdouts--none more prominent than the Souls-like subgenre, a category of games built on the foundation of...

You Can Get This Kodak Film Scanner for $170

Old media doesn't need to waste away in a box. Instead, you can convert them into digital files about as easily as you'd scan any other photo. The Kodak Slide N Scan is a film and slide scanner that c...

The New Futurama Successfully Reboots the Show for 2023

Ramin Skibba[photo1]Good news, everyone! Futurama is back (again).The sci-fi cartoon's 11th season premieres today, returning on Hulu in the US (and Disney+ elsewhere) after a 10-year hiatus. Given th...

These Movie Theaters Have the Best Summer Ticket Deals

There's an affordable time to go to the movies, and an unnecessarily-throwing-your money-away time to go to the movies. Let's talk about the former, so you can get to the movies this summer for the ch...

You Can Get Around Twitter's New DM Changes

These days, if I see I have a new Twitter DM, it's almost guaranteed to be spam. The company clearly knows this is an issue, as they've rolled out a "fix" to reduce the amount of bogus messages enteri...

EA Sports FC Just Killed FIFA 24

Amit Katwala[photo1]In May of last year, EA Sports confirmed that its 30-year partnership with FIFA, soccer's governing body, was coming to an end--which, if you'd been playing FIFA (the game) since f...

TikTok 'Diet' of the Week: The Ice Hack for Weight Loss Is an Ad for a Dumb Supplement

TikTok is full of weight loss "hacks," most of them misleading, overblown, just plain wrong, or recycled from misinformation of yore (or all of the above). The latest: something involving ice that hel...

Heat Waves Are Unleashing a Deadly but Overlooked Pollutant

Sushmita Pathak[photo1]Lutyens' Delhi is one of the most iconic neighborhoods of India's capital. Home to the country's parliament, numerous embassies, and a lush, 90-acre Mughal-era park, it's an arc...

'Do Your Research,' 'Stick It Out,' And Other Things Law Schools Should Stop Telling Students About Clerkships

[photo1]The school year is over, but rising third-year law students are busy. They are putting the finishing touches on judicial clerkship applications and preparing to submit them via the Online Syst...

Nuview's lidar satellites hit $15M in funding with Leonardo DiCaprio among investors

Nuview, a startup that wants to map the entire landmass of Earth on an annual basis using space-based light detection and ranging (lidar) technology, has raised $15 million so far, TechCrunch has excl...

12 Podcasts That Explore the Weirder Corners of the Internet

The internet is a place full of dark corners, deep rabbit holes, endless mazes, and wild threads. But with the chaos comes storytelling gold: These 12 podcasts use communities like Reddit, Yelp, Twitt...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse's Best Gag Was 56 Years in the Making

[photo1]Marah EakinEveryone knows the Spider-Man meme. In it, a cartoon Spider-Man points at an identical Spider-Man who, in turn, points right back. It's from a 1967 episode of the Spider-Man animate...

Why Hollywood Really Fears Generative AI

[photo1]Will BedingfieldThe future of Hollywood looks a lot like Deepfake Ryan Reynolds selling you a Tesla. In a video, since removed but widely shared on Twitter, the actor is bespectacled in thick ...

The elephants in the room at Computex

This year's Computex, the first since Taiwan eased pandemic-related travel restrictions, was a celebration of the world's computing and chip industries. But amid the exhibitions, speeches and product ...