Once upon a time, manufacturer-skinned versions of Android were considered blasphemy. These days, that’s changed: Samsung’s One UI is a huge improvement over their older software, but after years with Google’s version, it’s still hard to get used to some of Samsung’s changes. So when I finally caved and bought a refurbished Galaxy S10e, I just couldn’t go without making some software alterations to make my new phone look and feel more like Google’s simpler offering....

“The screenshot below may look a lot like an edited Tweet. That’s because it is, and you could be seeing more of them soon,” reads the opening of Twitter’s official Thursday morning announcement. Beginning today, the platform is internally testing an edit ability, and plans to extend the feature to a single country’s premium-paying Twitter Blue users later this month. “We’re hoping that, with the availability of Edit Tweet, Tweeting will feel more approachable and less stressful,” the blog post continues....

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There are few things more American than grilling. And as it happens, there are few inventions more American (and ingenious) than the cocktail. So it’s only fitting that we, as headstrong and curious citizens of this great country, would think to marry the two. When juiced or muddled into the base of a drink, grilled fruits and vegetables weave in a layer of rich, smoky, summery flavor, not unlike the comforting scent of an early evening campfire....

By weight, eighty percent of this bizarrely unnamed plane is 3-D printed. It has a 9 foot -wingspan, weighs 33 pounds, and with its jet engine reached a top speed of 150mph. It can fly for about 5 minutes. Most of its body is printed in lightweight plastic with the clunky name ULTEM 9085. (Perhaps this is why they didn’t name the drone). The fuel tank and exhaust chute are made out of different materials, including printed metal....

We live in an age of copious remakes and reinventions out of Hollywood, especially of ’80s and ’90s hits, so a new Ghostbusters shouldn’t really be surprising to anyone. And if you’ve been following the news of this new Ghostbusters movie’s development at all so far, you’ve probably heard about the strange controversy that’s bubbled up since it was announced that the titular team of paranormal investigators would be gender flopped — all female this time, instead of the all-male original lineup....

The demo was meant to show an interactive model and demonstration of the Apollo 11 mission that landed on the moon, but the models never appeared and the presenters had to abandon ship. It’s the kind of moment after which you expect the Curb Your Enthusiasm music to pipe up and the live chat gets overrun with “LOL” messages. Unfortunately, the errors got in the way of the fact that it’s actually a cool demo and HoloLens has come a long way....

Watch that flailing! Feel for the machine as every last movement fails to mean anything. Laugh as the tiny knife, part of a Swiss Army utility card, slices through the empty air. Tremble before the knowledge that a human made this rubbery nothing for fun, and then relax in the knowledge that the machine cannot feel, it is just our feelings projected upon it that make us sad. The device, properly named “’Littlebits’ ‘Arduino’ knife-wielding tentacle,” comes to us from YouTube user Outa Spaceman....

“That gyre acts as the walls of a playpen, and we really need to factor that into our management of the north Atlantic species,” says Katherine Mansfield a turtle biologist at the University of Central Florida, whose research was published today in Biological Sciences. Like most other sea turtles, green turtles head out to the open ocean to grow, returning to coastal waters only years later as adults. Researchers call that time at sea the “lost years,” since we know very little about where the young turtles go, or even how long they’re away....

While today’s space telescopes lack the ideal skillsets for spotting an Earth 2.0, astronomers are starting to get a sense of how frequently similar worlds may pop up in the cosmos. By combining the final data sets from NASA’s exoplanet spotting spacecraft Kepler with other recent surveys, a team of astronomers has calculated the strongest such estimate yet: Visit somewhere between three and three dozen solar systems, they say, and you’ll likely come across at least one Earth....

“Not since DuPont first launched Lycra 40 years ago has a textile come along set to revolutionize the fashion industry,” says Suzanne Lee, founder of Biofabricate, a design and biotech conference, and author of Fashioning the Future. Light, supple, stretchy, and stronger than steel, spider silk has long been sought as a thread for all sorts of uses, including bulletproof vests, wound dressings, and car materials. But spiders don’t lend themselves to industrial harvesting, unless by extraordinary means, because they cannibalize each other when confined together....

For the contest, GE Appliances donated refrigerators, ranges, and other devices to LVL1, and over 48 hours, teams of hackers raced to imbue them with elaborate new functions. Although the division spends plenty on R&D, Kevin Nolan and Venkat Venkatakrishnan, the heads of technology and R&D, wanted to see what out-of-the-box ideas the crowd might have. The results were variously silly and useful. One modified refrigerator dispensed soda cans from a chute, like a vending machine....

Around that time, researchers in Ohio predicted Lake Erie would be coated by a significant plume of harmful algae this summer while researchers from Florida used satellite images to document the world’s largest macroalgae bloom—a swath of brown seaweed so large it’s visible from space. Also in July, Vermont officials attributed the death of two dogs to the ingestion of harmful algal bloom toxins. Suffice it to say: Parts of the country have entered peak algal bloom season....

What are you eating and/or making for Thanksgiving? People in Taiwan don’t really have a good idea of what Thanksgiving is. It’s a shame because it’s actually my favorite holiday, partly because it’s so American, but also because the motivation and traditions for Thanksgiving are my favorite things — simply getting together with people I love and sharing good food. I made a dessert centered around pumpkin pie mousse. I wanted to break a pumpkin pie apart and add some interesting new elements....

But the agreement amounts to little more than a gentlemen’s handshake. The terms are entirely unenforceable, for one thing, and though the goals are laudable, it’s ultimately too little, too late. There’s also no framework for how countries are going to meet their targets. And it’s unrealistic, given that our energy landscape, while generally moving in the right direction toward clean tech, is doing so at a dangerously slow pace....

The situation, the IAEA said, is that one of those lines is giving the plant the power it needs, while the other two are present as backups. Although that is a good development, as is the fact that all six of the plant’s nuclear reactors have been shut down, the IAEA still struck a note of caution. The organization’s director general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, “again stressed that the nuclear safety and security situation at the plant – held by Russian forces but operated by Ukrainian staff in the middle of a war zone – remained precarious....

So what, then, could possibly be the purpose of a riderless motorcycle? BMW demonstrated just that today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where a motorcycle with no human aboard drove across a parking lot, making tight turns left and right and cruising over the asphalt. When it came to a stop, its kickstand even deployed to catch it while it slowed down. This project has been in the works at BMW since 2014, and the goal is definitely not to unleash a vehicle like this on the streets....

“We have unleashed a revelation in American energy. The United States is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world.” The country’s production and consumption of energy stood at the core of Trump’s 2016 campaign, when he vowed to “end the war on clean coal.” In Tuesday’s address, the president instead focused on other fossil fuels, stating that for the first time in 65 years, the United States is a net exporter of energy––in the form of oil and natural gas....

Transcripts show officer Darren Wilson testifying that even though Michael Brown was unarmed, killing him was justified because his punching fists, large body, and state of mind presented a mortal threat. “When I grabbed him,” Wilson told the grand jury, “the only way I can describe it is that I felt like a five-year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan.” He says that after he first shot Brown, Brown’s face was, “like a demon, that’s how angry he looked....

While 6E is an upgrade over the recently released WiFi 6, it’s not a replacement. “Don’t look at it as the next generation,” says Kevin Robinson, senior vice president of marketing for the Wi-Fi Alliance. The new 6E encompasses the same basic technology as WiFi 6, but it gets a lot more space in which it can move data, which leads to less interference and fewer traffic jams. To use a tired-but-useful metaphor, the new classification offers more pipes, but each one is also fatter to pump more data through it....