Amazon has gotten flack in the past for some of the challenges its crowdsourced “last-mile” delivery drivers face, but now it’s offering those with entrepreneurial ambitions the option to do more. Instead of showing up for gig work, drivers can…
For the past 12 years I’ve followed the rise of the startup — defined as a small business with global ambitions — from my perch at TechCrunch. During that period I watched business reporting change from a sleepy backwater on…
NASA literally saved us from a planet-wide apocalypse in the 1980’s. If they hadn’t noticed a huge problem in our atmosphere, life on Earth would have collapsed by the year 2065. Following is a transcript of the video. The early ‘80s…
iStockphoto Well, all of us boozehounds are destined to die a painful, miserable death. Condolences. It seems that while many of us, these days, are laying off the Taco Bell, consuming more fruits and vegetables, exercising more, cutting back on…
Barbara Alper via Getty Images Sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison has died at 84. Ellison, who was an author of novellas and short stories, wrote for shows including Star Trek, Babylon 5, The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. He passed…
NASA/ESA/STScI Last October, researchers spotted a long, skinny object speeding through our solar system, and they initially pegged it as a comet from another solar system. But as they continued to observe the object, dubbed ‘Oumuamua, its properties — namely…
Banksy is back with 9 new fiery murals in Paris Image: Chesnot/Getty Images By Rachel Thompson2018-06-29 11:09:27 UTC A load of new Banksy murals have popped up in Paris, France, in the past week. The works — which are Banksy’s…
In this, the next installment of our dPS ultimate guides, learn what you need to know to get started doing night photography. Introduction Tower Bridge, London. Exposure: shutter speed 2.6 seconds, aperture f, ISO 100. Night photography immediately solves a…
That moment when you drop your phone and everything stops. You can hear your heart beat — the buzz of the world around you is silenced — all cognition stops — you see as if in slow motion the pirouette…
Could Canon be planning to make the camera do all the work for photographers with an AI-powered system? AI-powered everything seems to be the hot stuff that gets anything tech-related going these days, especially photography. We’ve come to…