In the coming weeks we’ll be hearing plenty from the Olympic athletes about their Rio accommodations. (The Australians, who declared their rooms “uninhabitable”
due to leaks and exposed wiring, must be feeling great after they were not alerted to an emergency evacuation on Friday due to a small fire—the building’s fire alarms had been deactivated.) But today’s about that group of people who likes to complain in even the best of situations: the media.
Think you know Google’s online productivity suite back to front? Whether you’ve been using Google Drive
for five minutes or five years, there’s always more to learn, and in that spirit we present 10 valuable tips and tricks for mastering the service.
The Earth isn’t particularly close to any black holes—the closest candidate, A0620-00, is around 2,800 light years away—so good on us for picking a nice cosmic neighborhood to live in. But besides the whole “nothing escapes from them” thing and the hugely destructive supernova preceding their birth, black holes are bad news. They could end life as we know it, even from far away.
Want to make it in the double dutch big leagues? Better not skip leg day. Or arm day. Or anything day. Because everything about this sport looks immensely difficult.
The first season of AMC’s Preacher ended Sunday night and to say it was a mixed bag would be an understatement. At times, the show reached new heights for craziness and violence on TV. Mostly, though, it was an understated deconstruction of a town and characters in crisis. The finale was more of the same but in the end, it did what it had to do—it left us wanting more.
Remember balancing a broomstick on your finger when you were a kid? It turns out that skill doesn’t really have any real world benefits. The same can be said for this self-balancing stick that Mike Rouleau created.
Heavy flooding in Ellicott City, Maryland this weekend left two people dead and necessitated the rescue of 100 others, in what one county executive described as the worst destruction in generations.
An out-of-control wildfire ripping through California’s central coast is expected to get worse before it gets better. On Saturday, California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) announced that the so-called Soberanes fire, which has already burned an area larger than San Fransisco, could quadruple in size and rage for another month.
The British summer simply can’t win. Either it’s too hot and muggy to go outside, or it rains all day when you’re trying to host a BBQ. Free stuff, however, is one thing you can’t complain about. Thanks to our friends at 32nd Shop, we’ve got two of S…
LG will launch the V20 smartphone in September, and it will be the first to get Android 7.0 Nougat. It’s the successor to LG’s wacky V10 phone, and will have the same dual-screen, dual-selfie camera features (no other specs were revealed). The news m…
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