AP:Coach Bill Belichick has never been shy about immersing his team in an us-against-the-world mindset, going all the way back to Spygate and carried along by a persistent belief that he's always looking for ways to skirt the rules.After the brouhaha over deflated footballs, Belichick channeled... Read More »

Bryan X. Chen goes in-depth on the new Apple TV:The Apple TV may also not be the best streaming device for everyone because of one missing feature: the ability to stream content available in Ultra HD 4K TV, the latest high-definition resolution supported by some of the newest TV sets.Who do you... Read More »

Adam Frank on news that someone, some thing, somewhere, might be building a Death Star: For the past week or two, the Internet has been lighting up about alien megastructures that might, or might not, be orbiting a star called KIC 8462852.So what should we make of it? Is it just hype deserving a... Read More »

From Consumer Reports:Higher is better. If you live in a two-story house, placing the router on the second floor promotes wider reach. The device's antennas work something like an umbrella: The higher you put them, the more coverage you get below them. Seize the middle ground. Doors and walls... Read More »

Nearly every job interview or employment application asks this question. Laura McMullen has the proper answers.Never, ever, ever bad-mouth your current or former employer. "Even if you were miserable, save it for happy hour -- don't dump that in the interview Be honest. OK, maybe don't choose... Read More »

Andy Wells on the name give a piece of space junk that is hurtling toward the earth:A piece of space junk that has been given the apt name of ‘WTF’ is heading straight for Earth - and will crash into us in less than a month.No one seems to know exactly what the flying object actually is -... Read More »

Quick. What's the best way for a third grader to figure out the answer to 5x3? Jacob Shamsian has the right answer.Here's a "repeated addition" Common Core problem that's taught in third grade in US schools:Use the repeated-addition strategy to solve 5x3.If you answer the question with 5+5+5=15,... Read More »

OS X El Capitan brought numerous changes to OS X and among them was a massive overhaul of the popular Disk Utility. The new version is pretty and pretty useless. Jonny Evans:Gone is the box-like Disk Utility of yesterday to be replaced by a more colorful edition providing at-a-glance information... Read More »

It's hard to believe that a time travel movie from 30 years ago has remained a classic, but that's the Back to the Future franchise. Toyota went back to the future with a pickup truck to honor the 30 year celebration of the iconic movie.Stephen Edelstein:The recently revamped midsize truck goes... Read More »

Walt Mossberg on the Steve Jobs character in Aaron Sorkin's movie:It would be as if you made a movie called JFK almost entirely focused on Kennedy's womanizing and political rivalries, and said nothing about civil rights and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Sorkin opts to end his story just as Jobs is poised... Read More »

How much longer before journalists are no longer human? Greg Nichols on Wordsmith, the robot writer:In May NPR conducted an unofficial contest pitting its White House correspondent Scott Horsley against Wordsmith. The objective was to write a short article following the release of an earnings report... Read More »