Musk said his proposal to address Houston’s chronic flooding woes would work. Experts say his plan has key technical and logistical challenges.

It’s September, and many among us are dealing with back to school, and anticipating the colder weather that’s on its way (at least, if you live in the northern climes). This, plus a somewhat fraught political atmosphere, means that you might be looking for reliable, affordable ways to escape the doldrums. You don’t need us […]

It may seem like just a slap on the wrist, but the FAA says it’s the best it can do.

If you listen to music the way a lot of people do these days – with a pair of wireless earbuds, from a Bluetooth speaker, or just blaring directly out of your phone – you will never notice a difference between Spotify’s high-quality 320Kbps streams and its lossless audio. But, if you usually listen with […]

The writer of ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ and ‘Being John Malkovich’ thinks we need to learn to be human again.

Few video game adaptations understand their source material quite like the Exit 8 film. It takes the rules and structure of the game – which strands players inside of a looping hallway in a Tokyo subway station – and then builds on them with actual characters and a story. And according to director Genki Kawamura, […]

Imagine if George Cukor’s The Women was a modern, Spanish-language telenovela set in Ecuador rather than a 1939 dramedy about the lives of wealthy Manhattanites. Now imagine if the series was directed by Pedro Almodóvar and its characters were brought to life with stop-motion animation instead of being portrayed by Hollywood heavyweights like Joan Crawford […]

An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research suggests.