Google today announced Android Things, its new comprehensive IoT platform for building smart devices on top of Android APIs and Google’s own services. Android Thing is now available as a developer preview. Essentially, this is Android for IoT. It combines…
Bird dogs are not like crunches: They’re not agonizing to do and you might wonder if you’re working out at all. But you are. You work on those little stabilizer muscles in your core to help you move more powerfully…
2016 was an emotionally rough year for many people, with the divisive US presidential election and a slew of horrific events — ranging from terrorist attacks and mass shootings to floods — taking their toll. If the year has left you questioning…
Some people choose to see the limitations of this world, the dead ends. We here at TechCrunch choose to see the possibilities. Looking back at the first season of Westworld, I have to say I’m impressed at the nuanced approach Lisa Joy and Jonathan…
A perfect Einstein ring, or gravitational lens. The red glow is from dust in a distant galaxy. ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ); B. Saxton NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA/ESA Hubble, T. Hunter (NRAO) Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts so much about the universe at…
Hot damn. A snorkeler in Hawaii stumbled on this underwater scrap between an octopus and a terrifying moray eel and it looks like it’s going to be a tangled fight to death. The moray eel looks like it has the clear advantage…
Surfing under the Northern Lights is definitely as gharly as it sounds Yep, it’s pretty.Image: Red Bull / Emil Sollie / Mats Grimseth By Johnny Lieu2016-12-14 05:15:36 UTC Surfer and noted shark-puncher, Mick Fanning has spent most of 2016 chasing…
An image from The Day After Tomorrow, a similarly themed environmental disaster movie. Image: Fox That’s the premise of a brand new film that may become the biggest science fiction disaster movie ever financed by, and shot in, China. Read…
Tuesday, news broke that Suicide Squad director David Ayer will stay in the DC film universe with an all-female film called Gotham City Sirens, which will star Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. But buried beneath that news is the potential…
Sterling Archer is not known for his commitment to self-care. The fictional spy is regularly beaten and shot, and subsists almost exclusively on a diet of booze. That is, with one glaring exception: Eggs Woodhouse. Read more… Source: io9