Apple makes it easier for app makers to compete for your dollars
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple announced a pilot program called “contingent pricing for subscriptions” yesterday that will let App Store developers automatically offer discounted subscriptions for users…
Opal’s tiny, laptop-friendly Tadpole webcam is already 20 percent off
Opal’s latest webcam makes for a nice carry-on companion, one that packs a bigger, better sensor than Opal’s first offering. | Image: Opal Happy Saturday, dear readers! It’s been a…
Elon Says New Generations of Humans Are Needed for a Bright Future for Humanity
Elon Musk says clear truths that without humans there is no bright future for humanity. Nextbigfuture has written about this and looked at the detailed numbers of declining birthrates. The…
The gulf between the real world and streaming has never been further
The two women are the stars of one of the most watches shows on Netflix this year. | Image Amanda Matlovich/Netflix Stop me if you’ve heard this one. You’re at…
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 16)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Google DeepMind Used a Large Language Model to Solve an Unsolvable Math Problem Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review “In a paper published in Nature [on Thursday],…
Inside the strange and stunning alien world of Scavengers Reign
Image: Max Though there are a handful of human survivors at the core of its story, the real star of Scavengers Reign isn’t a person; it’s a planet. The animated…
This “smoking gun” killed the McDonald’s ice cream hackers’ startup
Enlarge (credit: lovelypeace via Getty) A little over three years have passed since McDonald’s sent out an email to thousands of its restaurant owners around the world that abruptly cut…
Here’s how an off-road racing series will make its own hydrogen fuel
Enlarge / Extreme E travels to remote locations by boat and brings its own energy infrastructure with it. Currently, it makes its own hydrogen on site and uses that to…
LK99 Thin Film Room Temperature Superconducting Researcher Says Big DARPA Funding is Coming
Professor Guilan says that IF the original South Korean LK99 team are not direct cheaters then the evidence is that they did create room temperature superconductors. Armen Gulian, professr of…
Original LK99 Team Reassert Superconductivity Claim and New Evidence is Not Ready Yet
The Korean Society of Superconductivity and Cryogenics’ review committee on Wednesday said LK-99, an alleged room-temperature superconductor created by a South Korean research team, has not shown any key features…