The Geopolitics of 2069 Are More Chaotic Than You Can Imagine
To really understand what the world will look like in 2069, the first question we need to ask is what the United States will do in the next five to 10 years as the world continues moving away from the Pax Americana chapter of world history to whatever comes next.

January 8, 2019 at 08:06AM
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Simplehuman has seen the future, and it’s full of robot trash cans
Frank Yang’s quest to make the humble garbage can more beautiful and effective — and, at $80 and up, more expensive — has its naysayers. So far, he’s proven them wrong.

January 8, 2019 at 02:33AM
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I Love the Ugly Gamer Laptops of CES
But while the rest of the world started computing on Apple machines that looked sensible and cool, those of us who got into computers because of video games fostered an alternative gamer aesthetic that asked, in an inversion of Apple’s sensibilities: Wouldn’t it be better if computers were actually ugly and hard to use?

January 7, 2019 at 04:40PM
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Samsung’s 75-Inch MicroLED 4K TV Is A Huge Step Into The Future
In theory, MicroLED should deliver perfect blacks (all of the microscopic LEDs can be turned off individually), best-in-class brightness, and an incredibly wide HDR color palette — without burn-in and hopefully with a significantly longer lifespan than OLED panels.

January 7, 2019 at 04:40PM
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How Pizza Could Save The World
If you want to see how platforms can save humanity, don’t look at Facebook. Look at pizza.

January 7, 2019 at 03:34PM
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This Wooden Block Works As A Functioning Touch Display
“Forget OLED screens. Forget e-ink. The hottest new display in tech is wood.”

January 7, 2019 at 03:23PM
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The First 2 Seconds of ‘Super Mario Bros. 3’ Fill Up 3,000 Printed Pages of CPU Operations
Two seconds and 120 frames takes up almost 3,000 pages of paper.

January 7, 2019 at 02:32PM
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Before The Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs To Reinvent The Battery
Solid-state technology promises to be cheaper and charge faster than anything on the road today. But no one is close to figuring it out.

January 7, 2019 at 12:30PM
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Apple’s Errors
As rare as last week’s Apple revenue warning from CEO Tim Cook may have been — the company last issued a revenue warning in June 2002 — the company has had other bad quarters in the iPhone era. So why does this one seem so bad?

January 7, 2019 at 09:32AM
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Are You A Digital Hoarder?
If we feel overwhelmed by “stuff,” most of us believe physical clutter is the culprit. But researchers are finding that having too many digital files could be the problem, too.

January 7, 2019 at 07:32AM
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