Every gamer has been there: you’re a few hours into an intense session of annihilating noobs, and your headset starts chafing and making your ears sweaty. Lame, but HP has a solution. The new HP Mindframe PC gaming headset has active cooling technology to keep your skull frosty while you frag. …

Scout.fm wants to change the way people listen to podcasts. Instead of scouring through the over 500,000 shows in your current podcast app, this startup’s new curated podcast service will just ask you a few questions to find out what you like, then create a podcast station customized to you. …

Amorphous organic residue from a large storage jar found at the Early Bronze Age settlement of Castelluccio in Sicily, Italy, suggests olive oil was being made on the island at the end of the 3rd millennium BC. The 4,000-year-old storage jar in which traces of olive oil were found. Image …

A tiny fossil of an early juvenile Spinosaurus has been discovered by a duo of Italian paleontologists. The largest and the smallest specimens of Spinosaurus known to date. Image credit: D. Bonadonna. Spinosaurus (meaning ‘spine lizard’) was the longest, and among the largest of all known predatory dinosaurs, and possessed …

Paleontologists have unearthed the world’s oldest squamate fossil — 240-million-year-old specimen of a species called Megachirella wachtleri — from a site in the Dolomite Mountains, Italy. Megachirella wachtleri. Image credit: Davide Bonadonna. Megachirella wachtleri is the most ancient ancestor of all modern squamates (lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians). The specimen — …

The first human corneas have been 3D bioprinted by a research team at Newcastle University. Newcastle University researchers Steve Swioklo and Che Connon with a dyed cornea. Image credit: Newcastle University. As the protective, outermost layer of the human eye, the cornea has an important role in focusing vision. It …

Fort Worth Invitational tournament chairman Rob Hood presents a jacket to Justin Rose of England after he won the Fort Worth Invitational at Colonial Country Club on May 27, 2018 in Fort Worth, Texas. It’s a question that was raised on this week’s Golf Digest Podcast following Rose’s impressive victory …

Ever since Intel announced its 3D Xpoint memory (branded as Optane), the company has claimed that the new class of memory would represent a fundamental leap forward for the entire industry. Proof of these claims has been relatively slow to appear — it’s difficult to replace existing memory technologies, and …

Google launched its Project Fi virtual cell service in 2015, and at first it only supported Nexus phones. Later, Google rolled out the Pixel family of devices, and they too were available through Fi. However, the selection of Fi enabled phones hasn’t expanded much since then. There was just a …

Ground-dwelling birds survived while their close, tree-dwelling relatives went extinct during the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, caused by the impact of an asteroid off the Mexican coast some 66 million years ago, according to new research. A hypothetical surviving bird lineage — small-bodied and specialized for a ground-dwelling lifestyle — …