Pioneering wildlife cameraman Doug Allan dies in Nepal

Sony just revealed the upcoming Bravia 3 II mid-range LED TV. It’ll be available in sizes all the way up to 100 inches, for those in need of a home theater centerpiece. It’s considered a mid-range device, but is still outfitted with plenty of tech typically reserved for the company’s high-end displays. First of all,…

Over a year ago, I was prompted to look for another budgeting app. Intuit, parent company of Mint, the budgeting app I had been using for a long time, shut down the service in March 2024. The company encouraged Mint users to migrate to its other financial app, Credit Karma, but I found it to…

Posted on August 11, 2025 Posted by John Scalzi Over on Reddit someone is asking for science fiction for their precocious young reader and the people there are suggesting books that were old when that kid’s grandparents were the same age as the kid, for fuck’s sake if you didn’t know any SF books from…

A march supporting California’s billionaires didn’t exactly attract a huge crowd on Saturday — the San Francisco Chronicle counted around three dozen attendees, along with another dozen tongue-in-cheek counter-protesters. To be fair, organizer Derik Kauffman had predicted attendance of only “a few dozen” beforehand. But the incongruous idea of the “March for Billionaires” has provoked…

The team behind Cove, a Sequoia-backed startup that was working on an AI-powered collaboration board, has joined Microsoft, according to an email sent to customers informing them that Cove’s service is shutting down. Cove was founded in late 2023 by Stephen Chau, Andy Szybalski, and Mike Chu, all of whom worked on Google Maps features…