The 2018 Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid is the class of a small field of PHEVs. The Clarity combines excellent 47-mile range on battery power, with a gasoline engine that knows no limits and the roominess of a Honda Accord. Most drivers will be hard-pressed to know when the Clarity is …

If you’re reading this website, you’re virtually guaranteed to have heard it. D? D? G? D? A?, otherwise known as the “Intel Inside” jingle, has been a staple of computer marketing for years. In an era when jingles are no longer popular and have been vanishing for decades, it’s still …

There’s no use launching a spacecraft to explore a far-off location if you can’t maintain reliable communication with it. NASA’s missions have traditionally relied on complicated human-controlled radio systems, but the agency is now investigating artificial intelligence to control its radios. These so-called “cognitive radios” could keep space networks up …

NASA’s New Horizons probe has already made history several times. At launch, it was the fastest probe ever launched from Earth with a speed of more than 36,000 mph. It was also the first spacecraft to study the dwarf planet Pluto up close. Now, it’s on track for another first. …

One of the reasons recently IPO’d Stitch Fix became so popular among female shoppers is because of how it pairs the convenience of home try-on for clothing and accessories with a personal styling service that adapts to your tastes over time. But often, personal stylists bring their own subjective takes …

Preserved in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber paleontologists found a tick grasping a dinosaur feather. The discovery, reported in the journal Nature Communications, is remarkable because fossils of blood-feeding parasites directly associated with remains of their host are exceedingly scarce, and the new specimen is the oldest known to date. Hard …

Paleontologists have found the fossil remains of a giant prehistoric penguin that lived about 59 to 56 million years ago (Paleocene epoch) in what is now New Zealand. Artististic reconstruction of the Paleocene giant penguin Kumimanu biceae. Image credit: Senckenberg Research Institute. The giant penguin’s remains were found in the …

According to a paper published in the journal Meteoritics Planetary Science, Earth’s atmosphere is a better shield from meteoroids than scientists thought. A 1.5-mm-long impact track of a meteoroid captured in aerogel exposed to space by the European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) spacecraft. Image credit: NASA / ESA. Meteoroids are small …

T-Mobile is getting into the paid TV business, with the acquisition of Layer3 TV, a TV tech company, and plans announced to launch its own offering sometime next year. T-Mobile’s John Legere revealed the pay TV ambitions for the so-called “Un-carrier” on its YouTube channel today. The plan involves building …

As a big league umpire, Dale Scott saw maybe 1 million pitches from the field. The veteran crew chief missed nearly the entire 2017 season after a foul ball off the bat of Baltimore slugger Mark Trumbo in Toronto on April 14 caught him hard in the mask, causing Scott’s …