Author: Terren

There’s science, and there’s magic. And incredibly, this is the the first one. Behold the thermal tiles NASA used to protect shuttles from totally disintegrating on their way back to Earth. Awesome.

Android: Gmail just got a new update with a brand new inbox featuring labels, contact images, and indicators for your promotional, update, and social notifications. Additionally, new slide-out navigation makes it easy to access whatever you need when you need it.

At Computex 2013, Asus unveiled the Transformer Book Trio or what it calls

Vine, the very popular way to splice together six-second video vignettes, is now available for Android. Here’s the Google Play link, which is live for your video-sharing enjoyment right now—after some initial delays, it looks like the download link is finally operational.

The CRTC has unveiled a new code of conduct for cellphone companies that demands a two-year cap on contract lengths and unlocked cellphones within three months of buying them.

The leader of a drug cartel busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is a sheriff and his inexperienced staff.

The Saskatchewan Roughrider’s 2013 video campaign celebrating Rider Nation, featuring ‘What I Wouldn

This is great if you’re watching your waistline and even if you’re not—Google has added very specific nutritional information to search. Whether you want to know how many carbs are in an apple to how much sodium is in a bowl of miso soup, it will give you an exact answer.

Google just announced a pretty major update to Gmail, and you should now be to give it a go in the browser, if you so desire.

Google released its latest in-house app today, Google Admin, targeted at administrators of Google Apps accounts in business, education, government and other applications.

Android: If you’re like me, you hoard whatever cloud storage you can get. Cloudii makes it simple to manage all of your different storage options in one place.

Star Trek Into Darkness is a hit movie — it’s just not enough of a hit for Paramount. What does this mean for the future of Trek?

A telescope that is set to launch to the moon in 2015 will allow the public to go on the internet and view the Earth from the lunar surface.

YouTube has added a feature that lets you make any video into a slow-mo video. Because everything is more awesome in slow-mo, obviously.

Kellogg has agreed to a $4 million fine for suggesting that Mini Wheats cereal improved children’s attentiveness, memory and other cognitive functions.

A Saskatoon company hopes to drill down 3,000 metres and build a geothermal power station in the Estevan area.

Canada is among the best places in the world to live, according to a new quality of life measure from a leading international organization that compared rich industrialized nations.

Beef up your mobile experience on Android with this helpful list of apps. Not one of them will cost you a cent.

Chinese firefighters have rescued a newborn boy from a sewer pipe below a squat toilet, sawing out an L-shaped section and then delicately dismantling it to free the cocooned baby, who greeted the rescuers with cries.

What if Star Trek and Star Wars were actual stars? Here’s the major motion picture franchises visualized in an interactive infographic ranking size and profitability. See the whole thing on The New Yorker’s website.