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Sponsored Links LG LG wants to hop on the vegetarian bandwagon, and it’s venturing into unfamiliar territory to make that happen. The company will use CES 2020 to launch its first-ever indoor gardening appliance. The modular device you see at left grows lettuce, arugula, basil and other plants by matching outdoor conditions through time-sensitive LED…
Sponsored Links NASA Johnson/Flickr NASA’s Christine Koch just made history. As expected, the astronaut just broke the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman as of December 28th, eclipsing Peggy Whitson’s 288 days from 2016-2017 thanks to an extended stay at the International Space Station. She should hold a comfortable lead, too. Koch…
Sponsored Links bigtunaonline via Getty Images A new PlayStation controller may be in the works at Sony HQ. The tech giant has secured a prototype for a new controller design on December 26th, according to Polygon, which found its documentation on the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) database. Based on the illustrations on the website,…
The main harvest of 2019 of the primary food crops of Central America—corn and beans—was completed in September, and for the fifth consecutive year, extreme weather led to a bad harvest. According to the World Food Programme, crop failures in the Central American nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua–failures primarily due to drought—are…
Sponsored Links RU-RTR Russian Television via AP Russia’s vaunted hypersonic missile is now in service — though to what degree isn’t clear. The country’s Ministry of Defense has announced that the Avangard system is in use with its first regiment as of the morning of December 27th. The addition theoretically gives Russia the ability to…
Sponsored Links OnLeaks/91Mobiles The Pixel 3a was as much a step forward for Google phones as it was a scaled-back budget phone, and that might true for its sequel. Well-known tipster OnLeaks and 91Mobiles have posted renders purporting to show the upcoming Pixel 4a, and its centerpiece would be a 5.7- or 5.8-inch display with…
I just spent a week at a symposium on the mind-body problem, the deepest of all mysteries. The mind-body problem–which encompasses consciousness, free will and the meaning of life–concerns who we really are. Are we matter, which just happens to give rise to mind? Or could mind be the basis of reality, as many sages…
Sponsored Links TerryHealy via Getty Images Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we’ve done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget…
We weren’t far into this year when the trend pieces arrived. “2019 is going to be the year of the bendy phone,” one read. Another declared that “2019 is shaping up to be the year of the foldable smartphone,” or, at least it did before someone quietly edited it within a few hours. Hell, I’m…
Let’s say you find yourself being pursued by a large, semi-aquatic reptile. I won’t ask how this happened. That’s your business. But as you’re scurrying away, you may want to take a moment to notice what variety of saurian is following you. If they’re moving at a quick-paced walk, it might be an alligator. If they’re…