For July, 4 Romances That’ll Keep You Laughing
Few things go together better than romance and comedy — so in honor of this year’s Summer Reader Poll, all about funny books, we’ve got four romances that will bring a smile to your face.
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A portable Bluetooth cassette tape player brings retro audio into 2019
Cassette tapes are having a minor comeback: sales were (somehow) up almost 19 percent year over year in 2018, and where there’s a market, there’s a Kickstarter project looking to cash in. Case in point: the Ninm It’s OK. It’s sort of what a portable cassette player like an original Walkman would be if Sony continued to develop tape-based tech in 2019.
So while the It’s OK does the usual tape things, like playing cassettes or letting you record to tapes, it also bills itself as the world’s first Bluetooth 5.0 portable cassette player (a claim of such niche specificity that it seems to be true). It allows you to listen to your favorite jams with wireless headphones or even link it to a Bluetooth speaker, should you wish.
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Now you can check in on Bill Nye’s solar sail as it orbits Earth
A new dashboard will let people track the progress of one of Earth’s most unique satellites from anywhere in the world. The Planetary Society just announced a new website that will constantly display the status of the crowdfunded satellite as it orbits the planet.
LightSail 2 is the successor to LightSail, a spacecraft that launched in 2015 and whose primary mission was to show that a sail could unfurl in space. The team lost communication with the first LightSail a week after it made it to space, then got communication back, then lost it again, then, finally, got a gorgeous picture of the sail unfurled.
LightSail 2 is more ambitious and will actually try to maneuver through space, and even boost itself into different orbits using…
Best Cheap PS4 and PS4 Pro Deals and Bundles (Summer 2019)
No matter what game you want to play, these are the best deals around on the Sony PlayStation 4 Pro, PS4 Slim, and PS4 accessories.
While You Were Offline: Trump Went Into North Korea
Last week, he became the first sitting president to set foot in the country. The internet, as always, had reactions.
How to Protect Our Kids’ Data and Privacy
Opinion: Kids today have an online presence starting at birth, which raises a host of legal and ethical concerns. We desperately need a new data protection framework.
Capturing The Undersung Blues People Of The Rural South
Tim Duffy started Music Maker Relief Foundation to support blues musicians lost to time and poverty. He’s also photographed their portraits for a new book, compilation album and museum exhibition.
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We can’t drive the Honda E, so let’s watch the Junkyard Wars guy do it instead – Roadshow
Fully Charged’s Robert Llewellyn was invited to drive the new Honda electric city car in Frankfurt, not that we’re jealous or anything.
Heroes of TV shows and movies can still fly at Planes of Fame Museum – CNET
From a TV star B-17 to a movie star and the only flying, original Mitsubishi Zero, the Planes of Fame Museum has some incredible aircraft. Here’s a look around.