Celebrating Jack Kirby, the King of Comics, at 100 On the cover of his debut issue, Captain America is captured a fraction of a second after delivering a vicious right hook to Adolf Hitler’s toothbrush mustache. He appears unfazed — Zen-like, even — as four uniformed members of the Gestapo fire at him from all corners. …
Uber’s key CEO candidate backs out at the last minute Supposedly, Uber is worried not just about criticism of Immelt’s time at GE (his performance there was mixed), but also former CEO Travis Kalanick’s eagerness to have Immelt take his old position. The investors at Benchmark are worried that Immelt might be too eager to please …
What I Learned at Gerrymandering Summer Camp At 6’5″, Aaron Dennis towers over the whiteboard beside him. Blue marker in hand, the 22-year-old hunches slightly to jot down suggestions being shouted by a group of people deep into a brainstorming session. Dressed mostly in nerdy T-shirts (one reads Science! with a test tube in place of …
Sami Inkinen on his bold plan to cure type 2 diabetes forever Sami Inkinen founded and then exited Trulia about a year after Zillow snapped it up for $3.5 billion in 2014. He’s since moved on to build Virta, a health care startup claiming it can cure type 2 diabetes. It’s a bold claim. Most treatment …
The Apple Watch could soon let you work out in lots more ways Some clever analysis of the iOS 11 beta code has already shed light on a few of Apple’s secrets, and now there’s something new to report: a series of new workout activity types for the Apple Watch, including equestrian sports, kickboxing, fishing and …
The Internet Responds to James Cameron’s ‘Wonder Woman’ Critique In This Week’s News Roundup Welcome back, internet fans. We’ve got a lot to catch up on, so let’s get started. First of all, to set the scene, it’s been the kind of week where an attempt to avoid backlash causes backlash and everyone in Texas is, …
After Math: Short and Sweet It’s been a long week for small events. Engadget editors spent it getting to know new AI assistants, Disney taught a computer to judge short stories and Amazon announced that your Whole Foods bill will soon be shrinking as well. Numbers, because how else will we know how little we’ve got? …
What the Controlled Chaos of Burning Man Reveals About Cities Every year, for the past 26 years, something truly remarkable happens: an entire city appears out of the desert. I’m speaking, of course, of Black Rock City, in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, erected for the quasi-ritualistic celebration of art, radical inclusion, and free-to-be-you-and-me-ness known as Burning …
Ben Heck’s N64 Portable mod After many comments, requests, questions, setbacks and badgering from our impassioned fans, the Nintendo 64 Portable is finally finished. Ben took the device to the Midwest Gaming Classic for help with the hardware. Thanks to our community of followers, the problematic RAM add-on was soldered flat and is now in place. …