For every one-degree-Celsius increase in temperature, mountaintop species shift upslope 100 meters, shrinking their inhabited area and resulting in dramatic population declines, new research by zoologists has found. The study analyzed shifts in elevation range in 975 populations of plants, insects and animals.
Star Wars News: ‘Episode IX’ Just Recruited a Doctor
Not, like, a medical doctor, though. The time-traveling kind.
What to Expect from Apple’s iPhone Event on Wednesday, September 12
New iPhones are on their way, and probably a new Watch too.
New Space Robots Will Fix Satellites, or Maybe Destroy Them
Upcoming “service” satellites will be like doctors for older, ailing satellites. Should they take the Hippocratic oath?
HP’s New 3-D Printers Build Items Not of Plastic but of Steel
For now, the company’s new Metal Jet printers make key fobs and other doodads. But one day they could create car parts.
Emmy Endorsement: In Praise of “Barbershop,” the Other Genius ‘Atlanta’ Episode
The shaggy-dog tale is so stylistically at odds with fellow nominee “Teddy Perkins” that it proves just how elastic this show can be.
Ford’s big electric push will start with this Mustang-style crossover
This week, Ford showed off the first teaser image (seen above) of an all-electric performance SUV codenamed “Mach 1.” The drawing comes almost nine months to the day after the company announced the Mach 1 at the Detroit Auto Show, alongside the news that it was upping its investment into electric vehicle technology to $11 billion.
And just like any other official teaser image issued by a big company, we only see what Ford wants us to see, which is that this car is clearly styled like a Mustang, at least to a certain degree. So while this new car is all about what’s next for Ford, the company is also leaning on a product with a proven heritage, which lets Ford leverage a little nostalgia as it points its customers toward the future.
New 2018 iPhone XS: 17 most-wanted features – CNET
Once again it’s time to look forward and ruminate on what we’d like to see in the next iPhone.
Inside Jaws is a Steven Spielberg biopic in podcast form
There are a ton of podcasts out there, but finding the right one can be difficult. In our column Pod Hunters, we cover what we’ve been listening to that we can’t stop thinking about.
Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film Jaws is a cinematic classic, a film that set the mold for the modern blockbuster. This summer, Wondery debuted a new podcast from Mark Ramsey, the podcaster who was responsible for two earlier series, Inside Psycho and Inside the Exorcist. Inside Jaws opens with an infamous incident that occurred in July 1916: 25-year old Charles Epting Vansant takes a swim at in New Jersey with his dog, and became the first victim of a series of shark attacks that summer in the area. It was an incident that cemented the image of a killer shark…
This beautiful map shows everything that powers an Amazon Echo, from data mines to lakes of lithium
We are all dimly, unsettlingly aware that our lives are enmeshed in systems we can’t fully comprehend. The last meal you ate probably contained produce grown in another country that was harvested, processed, packaged, shipped, then sold to you. The phone in your hand is the end-product of an even more convoluted chain; one that relies on human labor from mines in Africa, assembly lines in China, and standing desks in San Francisco.
Explaining how these systems connect and the effect they have on the world is not an easy task. But it’s what professors Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler have attempted to do in a new artwork and essay, unveiled last Friday at the…