Five people were killed in xenophobic attacks in South Africa, police said, as President Cyril Ramaphosa vowed to clamp down on what he described as "acts of wanton violence" and the African Union and Nigeria sounded the alarm. Police fired rubber bullets and…
Tuesday. A nice day off and we're into the week. What'd you do with your day off (assuming you had one?). I finally did make that cake. So, that was fun. Now to get through a relatively quick week and get back to the weekend. To help speed things along,…
Next month will mark one year since the brazen killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. To date, there has been no independent criminal investigation, despite findings from the UN and CIA pointing to the Saudi crown princes involvement, calls for…
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato has been around as an anime franchise for quite some time. Originally hitting television sets back in 1974, one of the most well known science fiction anime series to date has influenced a ton of other anime franchises th…
Held biennially, the Frankfurt Auto Show is the biggest event of its kind in the automotive world — literally. The town-sized convention center it takes place in consists of numerous buildings spread hundreds of yards apart. Its importance in the car world is…
An artistic rendering of the Aeolus satellite that ESA moved on Monday, September 2nd. | Image: ESA On Monday, a European satellite changed its position in orbit to avoid a potential collision with one of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites — one of 60 probes the co…
Forget Skynet gaining sentience and starting a nuclear apocalypse aimed at humanity. The real fear a lot of folks have about artificial intelligence, robots and other automated processes is what it means for all of our jobs. According to a famous Oxford Unive…
Today only, Woot offers the Jetson Quest 250W Electric Scooter for $429.99. Free shipping is available for Prime members; otherwise, a $6 delivery fee will apply. For comparison, it originally sold for $550 and Amazon is asking an additional $90. Features inc…
Nobody expects Donald Trump, despite his prep school and Ivy League education, to know much about well, anything, but especially history, which he appears to view as mere context for his own salvific rise to fame and then power. But his comments this weekend …