Mad McFlurries and Black Hole Burps: 15 Timely Tech Updates

Tech is inescapable. Unless you're that guy on PBS who lives in Alaska and just whittles everything he needs, you're constantly either using or about to use some form of technology. Sometimes, it makes life considerably easier, and sometimes, you sit around pulling your hair out because something's not working as it should.

So it’s a bit of a dichotomy, in a sense, but it’s most definitely the glass half-full side of the dichotomy. Just imagine life without your phone – you might die. All kidding aside, that would mean heading back to the days of phone booths, and we’re pretty sure that nobody besides Clark Kent is into that idea.

So yeah, it's a weird and wonderful world out there, and people with tech-savvy big brains are trying to figure it all out for the rest of us. Here's 15 recent happenings in science and technology we repeat to our friends, to make them think we're smarter than we really are.