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There’s a new feature that can save you a ton of space on your Mac laptop

Everyone hates getting that dreaded “Storage Full” message on their Apple devices. It means deleting apps, photos, videos, games, and more. Thankfully, Apple has come up with a new solution that can give you plenty of storage with a major update to the Mac operating system.

Tech billionaires are trying to develop a way to break us out of ‘The Matrix’

It seems some leaders in Silicon Valley are taking the possibility of 'The Matrix’ seriously. At least two tech billionaires are recruiting scientists and funding research on a way to break us out of it. But are we actually living in a computer simulation? Philosopher Nick Bostrom writes that there are three possible answers.

Facebook is reportedly planning to bring its free internet program to the U.S.

Disney’s new hopping robot is just super excited to meet you

JAMES LOVELOCK HAS spent decades thinking about the apocalypse. (When you’re the highly influential scientist who helped detect the hole in the earth’s ozone layer, that’s part of your job.) At some point, Lovelock realized that, in the event of a mass catastrophe, survivors might benefit from a manual of sorts—a text that explains how the world once worked. “What we need is a primer on science, clearly written and unambiguous in its meaning,” Lovelock wrote in a 1998 essay for Science titled “A Book for All Seasons.” The Earth and I ($30) is not that book. But it does explain in digestible terms how the earth came to be, how it behaves, and how we humans impact it.