While I travel, one of the biggest pains in the ass that I fret over is the possibility of having to get my hardware repaired. This past winter, the closest… Read the rest of the article: PSA: Take Your Borked Apple Gear to Best Buy

Formed in 2014 by civilian volunteers caught up in the depravity of the Syrian Civil War, the Syrian Civil Defense (SCD), commonly known as The White Helmets, worked to move… Read the rest of the article: Never Trust a Nation

If you've been holding off on buying a Telsa Model 3 until you found out whether the car's arcade functionality was worth the electric ride's asking price, wait no more.… Read the rest of the article: Telsa's In-Car Gaming System Looks Kinda Meh

YETI's insulated coolers are built like a tank and keep the stuff inside of them cold for eons. They are also prohibitively expensive–it's hard to justify spending hundreds on a… Read the rest of the article: Arts & Crafts: Build a YETI-style cooler for dirt cheap

The escalating tariff slap-fight between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China is messing with so many bottom lines that the only people playing the market… Read the rest of the article: Apple considering moving hardware production out of China

Gordon Buchanan is a ladies man… lady polar bears, that is.

While everyone outside of Mexico is moaning about the steep cost of avocados, those living inside of the country are paying a far higher price. From The Yucatan Times: Every… Read the rest of the article: Avocado farmers routinely victimized by organized crime

No matter whether your memories of George Lucas' Star Wars prequels are fond or furious, there's no denying that, at the time that films were released, their cutting-edge visual effects… Read the rest of the article: Movie VFX pros revisit the visual effects from the Star Wars prequels

The last time I wrote about Ebola, there were 117 confirmed related deaths along with the 35 deaths likely related to the most recent outbreak in the Democratic Republic of… Read the rest of the article: Ebola's still raging

It's the end of a geeky era: After 19 glorious years of flogging movie, comic book and gaming-related swag, ThinkGeek is shuttering its website next month. From The Verge: ThinkGeek… Read the rest of the article: Fare thee well, ThinkGeek

Physical security keys, like those sold by Yubico, Thetis and Kensington, are a great way to lock down your digital lives. They also tend to be wicked fast compared to… Read the rest of the article: U.S. Government security keys vulnerable to hackers, for the dumbest imaginable reason

Eating the stuff that cows eat instead of eating cows is so hot right now! It's fine by me: last summer, I had the opportunity to nosh an Impossible Burger… Read the rest of the article: Beyond Meat added to Tim Hortons' menu

If that cat ever figures out how this is done, it's gonna gut that guy in his sleep.

The United Kingdom's security minister, Ben Wallace, really gets Lord Varys from Game of Thrones, you know? The Spider had it going on, man. He was hip and, also, with… Read the rest of the article: UK government is using child spies

I recently wrote about how much I enjoyed testing the OnePlus 7 Pro. One of the nicer things about it was the fact that its in-display fingerprint reader, unlike the… Read the rest of the article: Arts&Crafts: bypass a fingerprint scanner with glue and tinfoil

When Witcher III: The Wild Hunt was released a few years ago, everyone lost their minds over how great it was. Because my aging 2015 MacBook Pro lacked the guts… Read the rest of the article: Witcher III: The Wild Hunt is coming to Nintendo Switch

Are your gambles paying off of late? Maybe it's time to double down on something wonderful, friends. The worst that can happen is that you'll die knowing that you tried… Read the rest of the article: Tuesday Tunes: The Urban Voodoo Machine – High Jeopardy Thing

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (also known as the PKK,) has been taking pot shots at the Turkish government, in the name of Kurdish independence, since 1984. In 2013, Turkey's ruling… Read the rest of the article: Turkish Intelligence developed a smartphone apps that lets its citizens rat each other out

The first season of American Gods was great. Ian McShane! Ricky Whittle! Gillian Anderson! Orlando Jones as Mr. Nancy? Perfection. And then, after the season wrapped up, shit went down.… Read the rest of the article: This new clip from American Gods Season 2 is worrisome

As populism and a tilt to the political right has prompted many nations to question once welcoming immigration and refugee policies and embrace xenophobia, a nation with a centuries long… Read the rest of the article: Japan opens its doors wide to immigration