The first Lego pieces made from plant-based plastic sourced from sugar walking cane will go on sale this year, the company has revealed. The 85-year-old Danish toymaker said production has actually started on a range of Lego botanical elements or pieces such as leaves, bushes and …

Travel + Leisure presents the It List, our yearly round-up of the top hotel openings and renovations. TRAVEL + LEISURE STAFF Every year, Travel + Leisure editors look at thousands of hotel openings and renovations around the globe with one mission in mind: what properties will truly be game changers …

Many Android users are still waiting on an update to Android 8.0 Oreo, but Google is nearing the first developer release for the next version of the OS. According to infamous leaker Evan Blass, Google is targeting the middle of this month for the Android P developer preview. We won’t …

Ever since Intel and AMD jointly unveiled that new Intel Kaby Lake CPUs would be paired with an on-package Radeon RX Vega-derived GPU, there’ve been questions about what kind of performance this solution would offer. Now, we know a bit more about it, and the figures are encouraging. Integrated graphics …

AMD’s Ryzen 7 family reignited the desktop performance wars last year after nearly seven years of small iterative improvements. The company’s Zen architecture proved more competitive than most expected, and AMD’s top-end desktop cores ruled the multi-threaded roost until Coffee Lake — and arguably past that, given how hard it …

Charter has appealed a recent loss in the New York Supreme Court. That ruling established that Charter could face a lawsuit from the state of New York. The original lawsuit was filed by Eric Schneiderman against Charter and its Time Warner Cable subsidiary, Spectrum, and alleged that Charter had been …

SpaceX has yet another Falcon 9 launch scheduled for tomorrow, and there’s something special about this one, but it’s not the payload. When this rocket lifts off, it’ll be the 50th launch of a Falcon 9 since SpaceX first sent the vehicle up in 2010. This doesn’t include the recent …

Successful meal prepping can mean winning healthy eating for the week versus three consecutive nights of “Oops, I guess we’ll have takeout again.” It can save money, reduce food waste, and relieve the stress of finding a quick, healthy, budget-friendly meal at the last-minute on a busy day. But of …

The tiny fossil of a juvenile enantiornithe bird from the Early Cretaceous La Huérguina Formation of Spain is helping paleontologists understand how early birds came into the world in the age of dinosaurs. Artist impression of a juvenile enantiornithe bird. Image credit: Raúl Martín. The 127-million-year-old fossil is a chick …

An international team of biologists from Poland and Japan has discovered and described a new species of tardigrade. Details of the micro-animal’s discovery are published in the journal PLoS ONE. Macrobiotus shonaicus. Scale bars in ?m. Image credit: Stec et al, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192210. First discovered in 1773 by the German …