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Image: Nvidia It’s the worst time to try and pick out the parts for your next PC build. Actually, it’s the worst time to try to buy anything that involves a graphics card or processor. Major component manufacturers, including Nvidia, TSMC, and Intel, have confirmed the global chip shortage is unlikely to let up for...awhile. Advertisement In an earnings statement earlier this week, Nvidia said it expects supply shortages on its graphics cards for the rest of the year. “Overall demand re...

A new report is a sweeping assessment of the possibilities, challenges, and benefits of electrifying American roadways over the next 15 years. It was inspired by just how quickly EV technology is moving, the authors said.

Image: Project Farm / Jason Torchinsky Over the past few weeks we’ve looked at a tap socket to restore damaged threads, a cheap jump-start battery pack that actually works and a brake fluid tester pen that can help you maintain your car’s braking system. This week’s cool tool is a cordless ratchet that can save you so much wrenching time you’ll want to use it for every job. Advertisement This suggestion came from a number of readers. I didn’t think this tool was a must-have until I us...

Advertisement What does this anniversary party involve? First, a quick teaser to remind you why you became obsessed in the first place: Tyrion being the smartest guy in the room, King Joffrey taking his last gasp, Cersei smirking, dragons galore, etc: Starting today, Game of Thrones faithful can head to HBO Max to access an app “with curations for every level of fandom” including “a treasure trove of content, with over 150 videos of behind-the-scenes extras, cast interviews, clips, and t...

Chimeric Human-Monkey Embryos Kept Alive for a Record 19 Days A chimeric human-monkey blastocyst. Building on previous experiments, an international team of scientists has created chimeric human-monkey embryos, which were kept alive for nearly three weeks. The breakthrough could lead to new ways of testing drugs and generating organs for transplant, but this line of research is raising some ethical concerns. Advertisement New research in Cell details the experiment, in which human stem cells we...

Likely concerned that its fans are gettingtoo close to figuring out the ancient Jedi techniques required to make a glowing laser sword on their own, Disney has decided to get down to business and finally give the world a company-created, working lightsaber. Advertisement Following news that this lightsaber—now the second-most powerful weapon in the House Of Mouse’s arsenal after its fleet of copyright lawyers—had been shown at an online theme parks conference, Star Wars fan and software...

China is the world’s largest car market and it has some tricks up its sleeve to entice people to go Read more This is the Wuling Hong Guang Mini EV Cabrio. Some foreign language outlets have been saying that this is a concept car, with the French LeBlogAuto claiming that “The convertible for its part has very little chance of seeing the light of day in series [production].” According to the local Chinese-language publication Autohome.com.cn, however, this car is indeed headed to the publi...

DJIs Upgraded Mavic Air 2S Has a Much Larger Camera Sensor Image: DJI DJI’s Mavic Air 2 drone already offers a great balance of price and performance, but with the new Mavic Air 2S, DJI is revamping its latest quadcopter with a way bigger camera sensor. Advertisement By jumping up from the half-inch sensor on the Mavic Air 2 to the new 1-inch sensor on the Mavic Air 2S, DJI says its latest drone “sets a new benchmark” for in-air image capture. The $1,000 Mavic Air 2S is capable of snappi...

Future State: Gotham #1 . Naturally, Jason’s got a grudge with Tim Fox, who’s been secretly operating as the city’s most high-profile cape—bearing the moniker of someone Jason has more than a few issues with. In a press release about the upcoming series, DC emphasized how Future State: Gotham’s black and white interior art and Milonogiannis’ manga-inspired aesthetics are both part of the series vision of a different future for Gotham city, one where there isn’t much time to deba...

That’s the thing about Thrones’ first season that feels so radically different, even more so than the lack of the fantastical roots that would catapult the show to titanic scale as it progressed. Everything feels so small, and intentionally so—Winterfell feels like an entirely different world to King’s Landing, not physically distant but spiritually and culturally, making the contrast between the events in Westeros and the events across the sea with Daenerys all the more stark (pun un...