June is upon us, which means it’s time to fill your summer reading list with all the brand-new sci-fi and fantasy books you can stuff into a beach bag. Good thing we’ve got 54 titles to choose from, with time travelers, reluctant heroes, people who can talk to the dead, and carnival stories among the highlights.
Farmers in California are beginning to feel the heat. As the state plunges into a worsening drought, water deliveries have drastically fallen in much of California’s farmland. That’s forcing farmers to make tough decisions about the future of their operations. Some farmers are ripping up certain crops to plant less…
The 2022 Kia Seltos is getting the Nightfall treatment similar to its larger Telluride sibling. With base prices starting at $27,865, 2022 Seltos Nightfall Edition AWD slots below the top-of-the-line Seltos SX AWD, priced at $29,165. All prices are inclusive of $1,175 destination fees. Both the Nightfall Edition and SX AWD have a 1.6-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine with 175 horsepower … Continue reading
One of the coolest cars that Mercedes offers is the Mercedes-AMG GT R Roadster. It’s the open-top sibling to the coupe version of the car and is already very attractive and fast right out of the box. What’s interesting about the Roadster is that it’s an extremely limited-edition car with only 750 units produced globally. A company called Bussink has … Continue reading
Instant Pot Ultra cookers are half price at Amazon as part of a Memorial Day sale.
How do you know if a bag is really going to stand the test of time? You don’t, and so you often have to take the maker’s claims of longevity at face value. This is why we felt it was important to take a look at a backpack that really has lasted beyond any reasonable expectation. Senior Editor Dan Cooper bought this The North Face backpack before he went to college. 17 years later, and it’s only now starting to show its age.
A company called Venus Aerospace Corp. is pursuing a hypersonic space plane that has the potential to take people from Los Angeles to Tokyo in about an hour. The trip in their proposed space plane would take off from the ground like a conventional aircraft and fly up to a high cruising altitude. Once at that cruising altitude, a rocket … Continue reading
Today we’re taking a peek at the month of June in the game Pokemon GO, and the star is clear: Mega Gyarados! Starting on June 1, 2021, Pokemon GO will feature just ONE Mega Raid Pokemon at a time. It’s not clear at this time if this will be the way of things forever, but for the foreseeable future – … Continue reading
Sigma has crammed a 61-megapixel full-frame sensor into the tiny fp L body, but that has meant some big compromises to handling and performance.
The Brooklyn Nets star said he’d had enough of spectators “treating people like they’re in a human zoo.”
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