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Google’s Home Max Goes After HomePod With A Big Arse Sonos Clone
Most people thought Google’s big event would be sort of lame, since all of the new products got leaked. And then, at the tail end of the Google Home announcement, the thump of a bass showed up. Meet the Google Home Max.
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It’s Becoming Frightfully Easy To Make Untraceable Guns At Home
Have a look at the gun above. It’s an M1911 pistol, the standard issue sidearm for the United States Armed Forces for nearly a century. The semi-automatic weapon can hold up to 11 rounds and fire as fast as one can pull the trigger. And that specific gun above, it was made with a machine…
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Politics Is Making Puerto Rico’s Problems Harder
All photos: AP Nearly a week after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, US President Trump finally waived the Jones Act for the island, allowing more emergency supplies reach the battered territory’s shores. The World War I-era law prevented foreign-owned ships from delivering their goods for days, leaving Puerto Rico without enough food, water,…
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Much Of Puerto Rico Can’t Even Call For Help
Hurricane Maria left Puerto Rico absolutely devastated. We’re talking flattened houses, lost lives, shattered power grids, flooded towns, forests destroyed — devastated. On top of all that, mobile phone service, one of the island’s most important lines of communication, has been almost entirely cut. So many are now struggling just to tell their families they’re…