Porsche’s liberated 919 Hybrid Evo just crushed a Nurburgring record

Give an electric car its freedom and it’ll pay you back double in broken speed records and acts of excess. At least, that seems to be Porsche’s recipe for success with the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo, its former Le Mans car that, race-mandated limiters removed, has been demonstrating just what joys electrification can bring. The Evo is effectively an unshackled … Continue reading

Apple Maps is getting a huge reboot

Apple Maps is about to get a huge upgrade, with exponentially more data, crowdsourced updates, and potentially paving the way to future AR smart glasses projects. The mapping app hasn’t exactly got the best reputation among navigation right now, though it has significantly improved since Apple first launched it in 2012 as part of iOS 6. That launch was, fair … Continue reading

UK's NHS will anonymize data to enable AI doctors

If you were miffed about Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) giving your sensitive data away to Google’s DeepMind, how you respond to today’s news is probably a crapshoot. The NHS has announced that it will begin anonymizing said data that’s been…

How to sell your used and unwanted gadgets

In just a handful of months we’ll be looking at new iterations of the iPhone and the Pixel, along with a plethora of other phones that have already hit the market. Which means you’ll be faced with a hard choice: upgrade or stick it out another year w…

YouTube's ‘G Funk’ chronicles a key piece of hip-hop history

Today, YouTube released an official trailer for its original documentary G Funk. The film, which will be available starting July 11th for YouTube Premium subscribers only, follows the story of 213 — producer Warren G, rapper Snoop Dogg and singer Na…

'Westworld' turns TV viewing into a game, but that's not enough

Spoilers ahead for both seasons of Westworld.

Westworld isn’t the first TV show to engross audiences in a sprawling mystery, encouraging you to scour every scene, every scrap of dialog for a morsel of meaning. It’s something we’ve seen with Lost, Th…

Drake Confirms He Has A Secret Son On New Album: ‘The Kid Is Mine’

It’s at least partly in response to Pusha-T.

ICE Director Erroneously Blames Congress For Family Separation Policy

Thomas Homan and Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the policy at a news conference on May 7.

Susan Sarandon Arrested Protesting Trump’s Immigration Policy

The actress has been a controversial figure since she suggested Hillary Clinton was more dangerous than Donald Trump.

In A World Of Watered-Down ‘Body Positivity,’ Tess Holliday’s Cover Is Radical

Women’s media is one of the worst offenders when it comes to making women feel terrible about themselves.