The Dell XPS 13 is one of the best laptops for high school and college students. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Shopping for a laptop can be stressful — doubly stressful if you or your children will be learning online for the first time. Kids of different ages have a range of different laptop use cases …
What’s the best student laptop? We asked students,
Shopping for a laptop can be stressful — doubly stressful if you or your children will be learning online for the first time. Kids of different ages have a range of different laptop use cases and different needs. And as the choices for best laptop and best Chromebook evolve, so do students’ needs. So I spoke to some experts on …
New research shows how many important links on the web get lost to time, Mitchell Clark
Illustration by William Joel / The Verge A quarter of the deep links in The New York Times’ articles are now rotten, leading to completely inaccessible pages, according to a team of researchers from Harvard Law School, who worked with the Times’ digital team. They found that this problem affected over half of the articles containing links in the NYT’s …
New research shows how many important links on the web get lost to time,
A quarter of the deep links in The New York Times’ articles are now rotten, leading to completely inaccessible pages, according to a team of researchers from Harvard Law School, who worked with the Times‘ digital team. They found that this problem affected over half of the articles containing links in the NYT‘s catalog going back to 1996, illustrating the …
Twitch launches a dedicated ‘hot tubs’ category after advertiser pushback, Jacob Kastrenakes
A screenshot of Twitch’s new hot tubs category. Twitch is launching a dedicated category for hot tub streams after claiming that it has received pushback from advertisers and viewers about how the trend has taken over the platform. The new “Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches” category is meant to let creators stream what they want, while also giving Twitch advertisers …
Twitch launches a dedicated ‘hot tubs’ category after advertiser pushback,
Twitch is launching a dedicated category for hot tub streams after claiming that it has received pushback from advertisers and viewers about how the trend has taken over the platform. The new “Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches” category is meant to let creators stream what they want, while also giving Twitch advertisers a more convenient way to prevent ads from …
There could be fungus among us on Mars with this wild astronaut house idea, ,
A strange consequence of Lynn Rothschild’s current research is that she ends up snapping photos of the more exotic mushroom offerings she encounters in the grocery store’s produce aisle.
There could be fungus among us on Mars with this wild astronaut house idea, ,
A strange consequence of Lynn Rothschild’s current research is that she ends up snapping photos of the more exotic mushroom offerings she encounters in the grocery store’s produce aisle. Rothschild, an astrobiologist and synthetic biologist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, recently won a second round of funding from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. The program is …
Hubble Space Telescope traces 5 mysterious ‘fast radio bursts’ to distant spiral galaxies, ,
New Hubble Space Telescope observations have given more credence to a theory explaining mysterious radio energy bursts.
Hubble Space Telescope traces 5 mysterious ‘fast radio bursts’ to distant spiral galaxies, ,
New Hubble Space Telescope observations have given more credence to a theory explaining mysterious radio energy bursts. The long-running observatory tracked down five fast radio bursts (FRBs) to the spiral arms of five faraway galaxies. FRBs are notoriously hard to trace because the bright flares fade so quickly, and astronomers have only found about 1,000 of them so far, but …