Brian Cashman’s done some impressive work in shepherding the Yankees through a rebuild without the mountains of losing that come with a scorched-earth approach, with the Yankees’ best moments likely still to come, once Gleyber Torres and other promising prospects crack the majors, and the Yankees make a run at …

The Raspberry Pi has proved itself to be a versatile little computer, and you can get them for pocket change. It’s a bit light on power, though. Now, Gigabyte is preparing to launch a similar device called the GA-SBCAP3350. Yeah, it really needs a better name, but this slightly larger micro-computer …

To date, the Volkswagen scandal over diesel emissions (and lying to the California Air Resources Board and the EPA) has mostly been contained to VW and, in a few cases, other brands Volkswagen Group owns like Porsche and Audi. But now it’s possible BMW, an entirely separate company, may have colluded …

The anonymity afforded by the Tor network has led to the creation of numerous “darknet markets,” where people buy and sell illegal goods like drugs, malware, fake IDs, weapons, and more. These operations have been famously difficult to stop. But an international team of law enforcement agencies just executed an impressive …

The beginning of Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff is practically a love letter to Chuck Yeager. The excellent movie version features a sequence depicting Yeager as he test pilots the X-1 aircraft. Flying out of what would become Edwards AFB in California, Yeager became the first person to engage in supersonic flight. Now, …

Sometimes the desire for dessert strikes hard and you just need something delicious, ASAP. Enter these quick and easy no-bake cake recipes. They not only satisfy your sweet tooth, but also sneak in some nutrients. Think vitamin- and mineral-rich ingredients, inspired by classic dessert flavors you know and love. Toss …

According to a new study published in the journal Genome Biology, methicillin use was not the original driving factor in the evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as previously thought; rather it was the widespread use of first generation antibiotics such as penicillin in the years prior to the introduction …

An international team of physicists from Germany and Japan has made the most precise measurement yet of the proton’s atomic mass. The result is a factor of three more precise compared to the current literature value, however shifted by about three standard deviations. Proton is a subatomic particle found in …

Pittsburgh Steelers (10.1): They continue to feature the best offensive triple threat (QB Ben Roethlisberger, RB Le’Veon Bell, WR Antonio Brown) in the business, augmented by a nice line and WR Martavis Bryant, back from suspension. It boasts perhaps the game’s best group of blockers, ascendant QB Marcus Mariota, a …

Today’s Google doodle marks what would have been Marshall McLuhan’s 106th birthday. A Canadian philosopher, professor and author, McLuhan was an astute media theorist with a prescient vision of how technology would continue to shape our world. In 1962, McLuhan published “The Gutenberg Galaxy” — a book that popularized the …