James Harden of the Houston Rockets is the NBA’s Most Valuable Player. Oscar Robertson commends the activism of today’s NBA players, although he wonders why more white athletes aren’t speaking out. The Hall of Fame guard was presented with the NBA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The NBA gave Oscar Robertson a …

Fresh on the heels of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 850, a new, PC-focused chip that’s intended as a followup to the Snapdragon 835, there’s rumors of the followup to that followup: The Snapdragon 1000. This new SoC is intended for a much larger TDP range, with 16GB of LPDDR4X RAM, 256GB of …

Google has never used the walled-garden approach to app distribution that Apple uses. If you want to make an Android app and hand out APKs on your own website, that’s totally fine by Google. There’s a story floating around the web today that Google has just gotten around to adding …

When Apple last redesigned the MacBook Pro keyboard, it attempted to shave roughly one quadrillionth of a millimeter off the keyboard design by shifting to a new type of switch with minimal key travel. Predictably — because literally nothing can be made thinner forever — this relentless pursuit of thinness …

AMD has launched a new teaser trailer video for Threadripper 2 that feels like something you’d get if you ran Duke Nukem and Doom through a PR generator for a CPU launch. Whether that’s good or not depends on your tolerance for this sort of thing, but the company is …

An app that has the needs of modern-day parents in mind, Winnie, has now raised $4 million in additional seed funding in a round led by Reach Capital. Other investors in the new round include Rethink Impact, Homebrew, Ludlow Ventures, Afore Capital, and BBG Ventures, among others. With the new funds, Winnie …

Twitter’s history of being a bit unfriendly to developers building third-party clients hasn’t frightened off Will Bishop. The young Australian developer recently released a version of Twitter for Apple Watch called Chirp, in order to fill the void created by Twitter pulling its official app last fall. (Let’s see how …

Sit back and imagine yourself a slice of the FLUFFIEST, lightest, and most delicious slice of refreshing, lemony cake…  that’s what this Lemon Ricotta Cake is!  Not overly sweet like most cakes, but just the right amount of sweetness to satisfy your sweet tooth and dessert cravings. I don’t have …

Brindabellaspis stensioi, a remarkable placoderm fish that swam about 400 million years ago (Early Devonian period), had a long snout, reminiscent of a platypus bill, according to new research published in the journal Royal Society Open Science. Life reconstruction of Brindabellaspis stensioi. Image credit: Jason Art, Shenzhen. Brindabellaspis stensioi was …

An international group of researchers has developed a biodegradable patch using special polymers which are able to stick to moist surfaces. The new patch, described in the journal Biomaterials, is a breakthrough therapy for the treatment of oral lichen planus and recurrent aphthous stomatitis, chronic inflammatory conditions often characterized by …