Chason Gordon
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Austin, TX, United States
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5 Space Movies Where Space Is More Than a Cheap Backdrop
Space has a way of enhancing the most mundane of things. For instance, astronauts are often asked how they go to the bathroom up there. But if you tell someone you pooped in Cleveland, there tend to be no follow-up questions. → Read More
Why Are We All Using Our Webcams if No One’s Looking at Each Other?
It’s a bit odd when you’re the only one in a work meeting not using the webcam. A sea of floating heads are nodding and gazing off to the side as dutiful employees, and yours is merely a conspicuous grayish circle icon that looks like your face never finished uploading. → Read More
Did You Just Leave the Room Without Pausing the Movie?
Whenever I’m watching a movie at home with a friend or girlfriend, I stare in astonishment as they get up and walk out of the room to grab a snack or go to the restroom. → Read More
Take a Look Inside a Delivery Drone Command Center
Working at Wing’s delivery drone command center is pretty similar to being an air traffic controller, except it’s drones carrying things like toothpaste, and not planes with hundreds of people. So way, way fewer lives are at stake. → Read More
Uber’s Las Vegas Robotaxies Still Need Chaperones (For Now)
Testing a robotaxi along the strip in Vegas with the drunken crowds and bright lights and occasional escaped lion seems like a natural fit. If they can handle that, other cities should be a breeze. → Read More
The Cooler Master Gaming Pod May Cause Your Friends to Worry
If there’s a flaw with gaming chairs, it’s that they still let you move around, don’t look like they’re about to swallow you whole, and allow the real world to somewhat exist in the periphery. Fortunately, Cooler Master is solving those issues with a new gaming pod/orb that may cause your family to wonder if someone’s checked on you lately. → Read More
“What If We Put It In Space?” Is the New Go-To Solution to Earth Problems
In most space movies, the answer to every problem is usually to slingshot around the moon or go through a black hole. But here on Earth, we have to find more creative solutions to our problems, like heaving everything into space. → Read More
FIFA’s AR App Gives World Cup Attendees More Bragging Rights
Whenever attending a sporting event live, you tend to miss out on certain things, like commercials for bad beers, the chance to stare at a screen, and a constant stream of analytics that we all pretend to understand. A new augmented reality app for World Cup attendees intends to change that (the stats part, anyway). → Read More
Microsoft Now Sells Tiny Hoodies for Cold Xbox Controllers
People make up all sorts up excuses as to why they just lost a video game to their friend: sometimes they don’t know how to play, claim the controller isn’t working, or that they’re friend cheated. Who knew saying the controller is too cold was an option? → Read More
Would You Live in a New 3D-Printed Moon Hut?
NASA spacecrafts tend not to be the most comfortable places to live, and have sleeping arrangements that make an uncomfortable futon look like a deluxe bed. One company may make it easier one day for astronauts and eventually moon tourists to stretch out a little in a 3D printed home. → Read More
Mercedes Wants You to Pay a Subscription for Full Speed
There’s always that moment during a chase scene in a movie where the driver presses some red turbo button to get away. That scene might be a bit lamer if instead of pressing a button to get more speed, they’re entering their credit card information on a website. → Read More
Scientists Don’t Want to Count Leap Seconds, so They’re Going Away
If your dog barked at the moon the other day or you saw two very similar cats walk by one after the other, it probably had something to do with the scrapping of leap seconds. Or not. → Read More
What Do Clouds on Mars Look Like? Earth Clouds
It would be nice to one day stand under a cloud on Mars with a loved one and romantically ask what it looks like to them, only to see their eyes bulging out like Schwarzenegger in Total Recall because they forget their helmet. → Read More
Waymo’s Self-Driving Taxis Are Becoming Meteorologists
Among the cavalcade of issues self-driving cars are running into, chief among them is bad weather, not that human drivers are good at dealing with that either. To mitigate this, Waymo is hoping to turn their autonomous robotaxis into mobile weather gauges. → Read More
The 25 Best Tech Gifts Under $100 for 2022
Not every tech gift has to be a jet pack that costs more than your house. Plenty of respectable gadgets under $100 are ideal for those in your life who deserve gifts less than $100. That covers generous $99.95 gifts, and those joke presents you buy for that secret Santa thing at work you can’t get out of. → Read More
You Can Now Buy an Official Clippy Holiday Sweater
It wouldn’t be surprising if hundreds of years from now, people were under the mistaken impression that Microsoft was founded by Clippy, and not Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The little metal guy seems to continually reappear. → Read More
These Smart Fitness Mirrors Can Beat Up Your Other Mirrors
Smart fitness mirrors are one of those products that imply you mean business when working out. It’s not like having an old exercise bike covered in a pile of laundry and cobwebs. They’re tall and narrow and it would be difficult to drape something over them to hide your guilt. → Read More
DoorDash Is Trying to Deliver Food With Drones
Some people like their eggs sunny side up, and others over easy. Soon airborne may be an option as well. → Read More
AMC and Zoom Will Bring Work Meetings to the Big Screen
It’s rare that you’re attending a work meeting on Zoom, and wish that you could hear your coworkers mutter “Sounds good” in state-of-the-art audio, or watch your boss on a 50-foot screen. Regardless, AMC is joining forces with Zoom to enable that experience. → Read More
Uncontrolled Space Rocket Landings Are Still Happening
We all have a lot to worry about these days, and you can add “rocket boosters falling from the sky” to that list. The odds are still low on space debris hitting you, but not zero. → Read More