Another year bites the dust šš½ This weekās special double-issue is devoted to all things 2018. Hereās a look at our favorite pop culture of the year.
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Another Defender bites the dust as Netflix cancels Luke Cage
Enlarge / Luke Cage (Mike Colter) will have to put another dollar in the swear jar when he hears the news. (credit: Netflix) Just one week ago, Netflix surprised us all by canceling Iron Fist after a much-improved second season. Now we can add Luke Cage to the casualties. Netflix unexpectedly pulled the plug on […]
Cadillacās Hazy Diesel Engine Program Tentatively Bites the Dust
It’s looking increasingly like the compression ignition engine won’t get an opportunity to redeem itself at Cadillac. After making diesel a dirty word in the early 1980s with the help of Oldsmobile’s cantankerous, oil-burning 5.7-liter V8, GM’s luxury arm dived back into diesel development towards the end of the last decade. A recession and bankruptcy […]
Burning Man entry wait times reportedly hit 10 hours after dust storms forced organizers to close the gates
Jim Bourg/Reuters Thousands of people arrived in Black Rock City, Nevada, over the weekend for Burning Man, which officially began on Sunday. Dust storms caused dangerous driving conditions that day, prompting a three-hour closure of city gates. Wait times peaked around 10 hours and were still six to seven hours-long on Monday morning. During the […]
How to get rid of dust mites and other insects from your home – including deadly scorpions
Dust mites and other insects found in Britain are not usually thought to be dangerous, but a shocking report has revealed the potentially deadly bugs that are in the country this summer. With so many Britons spending more time outdoors and leaving windows and doors to their homes open, the risk of coming into contact […]
New MacBook Pro keyboard design may fix dust problems after all
Enlarge / The keyboard on the 2016 Touch Bar MacBook Pro. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) While Apple’s redesigned keyboards in the new MacBook Pro models are made to be quieter, they also appear to be designed to prevent another problem. According to a document sent toĀ Apple Authorized Service Providers andĀ obtained by MacRumors, the new keys have […]
Lost Opportunity?: NASA rover threatened by intense Martian dust storm
Fears for NASA’s Opportunity rover are growing after engineers lost contact with Mars’ oldest mechanical explorer during a raging dust storm. NASA confirmed that Opportunity’s subsystems had been knocked off as the Martian storm, which is enveloping the Red Planet and blocking out the sun, continues to intensify. Solar power is essential for the rover […]
Some F-35s gathering dust waiting for repair parts
Enlarge / An F-35B Lightning II aircraft piloted by Maj. Jesse Peppers taxis toward the runway aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, April 11. Keeping the F-35B flying, just as with the Air Force and Navy’s F-35 fighters, is shaping up to be a waiting game because of a slow channel for repair parts. (credit: […]
āTo Dustā Review: A Uniquely Humorous Hasidic Jewish Story of Death and Life [Tribeca]
Death makes fools of us all because it exposes the limitations of human knowledge. We may have strong beliefs about what happens after our final breath, but none among us truly knows what happens. That uncertainty can gnaw away at those left behind with little more than the memory and the body of the recently […]
Apple filed a patent for a keyboard that isnāt ruined by dust
When Apple unveiled its 2015 MacBook, reviewers quickly discovered its keys were flatter than ever, with single-digit millimeters of travel between their pressed and unpressed states. At first, we heralded this as a miraculous accomplishment in ever-thinner laptop computing, which carried over virtually unchanged into the next years’ models. But all was not well. The […]
