Stephen Hawking spent decades warning that humanity faces a simple choice: spread beyond Earth or risk total extinction. The theoretical physicist argued that threats ranging from artificial intelligence to asteroid impacts made the planet too fragile a home for a single-planet species. His repeated, escalating warnings about the timeline for that escape have only grown…
In a recent interview, Phoebe Gates laid out how she is trying to build Phia as a stand-alone business, pushing back on assumptions that her family name is part of the product. That stance comes as investor demand has helped Phia scale quickly, with the app topping a half-million downloads in under six months while…
For nearly three decades, Bill Gurley has been among of the most influential voices in Silicon Valley — a general partner at Benchmark whose early bets on companies like Uber, Zillow, and Stitch Fix helped define what modern venture capital looks like. Now, having moved to Austin and stepped back from active investing, the native…
You’ll notice the small, rhythmic click of a turn signal more than you realize, and that sound does more than mark a lane change. The click provides an immediate, audible cue that reinforces visual signals, helping you and others anticipate maneuvers and reduce surprise on the road. Experts break down how that familiar noise ties…
BYD’s premium brand Yangwang has put the global hypercar establishment on notice with the U9 Xtreme, an all-electric sports car that BYD says reached 496.22 km/h (308.4 mph) at a German test track and then lapped the Nurburgring Nordschleife in 6:59.157. Those two figures, if they hold up to independent scrutiny, could position it as…
MIT engineers say they have increased the energy density of their carbon-cement supercapacitor system by roughly tenfold, with MIT’s reporting attributing the biggest jump to a switch to organic electrolytes alongside changes to how the material is made. The peer-reviewed results, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, push the technology closer…
Time is not kind to electronics. So what if you were to help revive or upcycle a piece of tech history, while learning a thing or two along the way? Here are some items to keep an eye out for, and some ideas on how to give them a new lease on life. Boomboxes from…
It’s difficult to know how long it takes you to fall asleep. Unless, of course, you have a sleep tracker. Yes, there have been low-tech ways to measure sleep onset latency, such as the spoon test (one of TikTok’s many sleep trends) or sleep journaling, but these are harder to perform and much less accurate….
Most people treat a fresh Linux installation as a clean slate. Usually you install a browser, set your terminal font, run an update, and get on with real work. Over the years, though, I have noticed that my environment only feels usable when a handful of command line tools are present. These tools dramatically reduce…
If you have spent hours manually renaming hundreds of files, you definitely know the pain. Sometimes, even simple tasks like organizing work documents, screenshots, and images can become a frustrating slog. I also found myself in such situations a lot of the time. That’s why I started looking for tools that could rename my files…