Nick Lewis is an editor at How-To Geek. He has been using computers for 20 years — tinkering with everything from the UI to the Windows registry to device firmware. Before How-To Geek, he used Python and C++ as a freelance programmer. In college, Nick made extensive use of FortranContinue Reading
In the early winter months of 1897, a woman named Mary J. Heaster found herself in regular prayer. Her daughter, Elva Zona Heaster Shue, had just died that January. Only recently married, Zona (as she was known) was a young woman, and her “death by heart disease”—as the county coronerContinue Reading
Topuria Design/Shutterstock Google is expanding one of Android’s best features to your car by integrating Call Screening into Android Auto. Call Screening uses Google Assistant to answer a phone call for you to determine if it’s a call you want to take. This helps to filter out scam calls while ensuringContinue Reading
If looking at your phone in the car makes you sick, you might want to try Vehicle Motion Cues. Image: Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. I can’t read in cars. Listening to music is fine, as are podcasts andContinue Reading
Many mid-career professionals hit a plateau. You have big personal and career goals, but busy schedules and dwindling motivation can stall progress. Traditionally, hiring a human life coach was the go-to solution for getting back on track. But today, an AI life coach might actually be a better fit. AnContinue Reading
On a walk through Queens with a City Council member in 2022, Jessica Tisch noticed an abundance of trash scattered on traffic islands, step streets, and greenways. Ms. Tisch, who had just started her tenure as the city’s sanitation commissioner, asked why these particular areas were so littered. The reasonContinue Reading
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We often scroll past pages of endless fine print and click “I agree,” never imagining the bizarre, life-altering consequences buried within. These legal documents—from software End-User License Agreements (EULAs) to celebrity film contracts and even property deeds—are crafted to grant sweeping power to the issuer. But what happens when companiesContinue Reading
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Out of the ashes of a devastating fire, archeologists are uncovering exciting insights into Ohio history. On December 7, 2024, a fire swept through southwestern Ohio’s Overfield Tavern Museum in Troy, destroying several historical items inContinue Reading
BUBBLE SPEED In “The Quantum Bubble That Could Destroy the Universe,” Matthew von Hippel discusses vacuum decay, in which a change in the Higgs field would create an expanding quantum bubble that would transform the laws of physics within it. He describes an essay proposing that “humanity could survive vacuumContinue Reading
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