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Sometimes, less really is more—especially when it comes to staying connected without the bulk. Introducing the NanoPhone, a fully functional, credit-card-sized smartphone that’s perfect for those times when you need to stay in touch and have access but don’t want to lug around your full-sized device.Whether you’re hitting the gym, …

Back in October of 2019, astronomers noticed something strange about the star that forms the “shoulder” of the constellation Orion, Betelgeuse. Beginning that month, the star began to dim. Between October 2019 and late February 2020, the star’s brightness dropped by a factor of three.In the past, unusual brightening and …

We hear a lot of horror stories these days about people saving too little, but the fact is that some people are actually saving too much for retirement. It is possible to have too much of a good thing… It’s safe to say that my grandfather is one who saved …

Every time a hot new phone comes out, you will inevitably run across videos seeking to show that it’s faster or slower than some other phone. Sometimes these videos get a lot of views, and are held up by fanboys of all stripes as proof positive that their preferred phone is …

Driving into work Saturday morning, a voice on the radio bemoaned some balls and strikes calls in Friday night’s Cubs-Reds game. a discussion of whether Major League Baseball should go to an automated system for calling balls and strikes. We accept that the game is played by human beings who, …

The 2017 World Baseball Classic wrapped up Wednesday night , and one of my favorite parts of the tournament is seeing all the different baseball cultures. Ian Kinsler made some headlines Wednesday afternoon when he seemed to disparage Latin American players for playing with so much emotion, though he later …

Chemists have made another compound nobody has any idea what to do with. The new weirdness is called triangulene, a cousin of graphene that’s been theorized for decades but never successfully synthesized. What do we do with it? How do we handle it? What are its properties? Other than that …

By now everyone has heard of Google’s RankBrain, the new artificial intelligence machine learning algorithm that is supposed to be the latest and greatest from Mountain View, Calif. What many of you might not realize, however, is just how fast the SEO industry is changing because of it. In this …

Just five breaths in downward dog felt like an eternity for Dana Falsetti when she first started attending yoga classes in 2014. “I remember feeling really defeated…. I think that’s a common thing for any beginner,” she says. Her shoulders felt weak attempting to hold her bodyweight — and her …

Apple today announced that the newest generation iPhone will do away with the ubiquitous headphone jack, apparently to make the phone waterproof and to make space for the haptic feedback engine for the home button. Obviously sad news if you just bought an expensive new pair of headphones, but the …