XKCD has a web cartoon making the rounds that nicely summarizes 22,000 years of climate and human history. One important point: As the last ice age ended and temperatures heated up, humans did better ...

“Holy crap @Fitocracy is on the latest xkcd comic!!!” co-founder Dick Talens tweeted this morning. “From now on, nobody can ever doubt @DickTalens‘s and my geek cred. @Fitocracy was just mentioned in ...

Review: Randall Munroe's third book gives hilariously edifying answers to questions like how to take a selfie, catch a drone, play the piano and win an election. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Today’s xkcd comic is astounding. It’s one giant panel with a never ending world that you can drag through with your cursor. It must have taken months to put this together, and the result is ...

Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and services ...

We’re fans of Randall Munroe’s webcomic xkcd from way back, so we’re happy to see one of his comics inspiring a song. Back in May he posted a comic called “Every Major’s Terrible“, which covered the ...

Sometimes, the easiest way to explain a concept to someone is with the use of illustrations, or cartoons. Xkcd.com attempts to do just that with this simple comic, where it tells a short story of a ...

Earlier this week, the ever brilliant xkcd delivered another of their wonderfully geeky webcomics. The Tech Support Cheat Sheet spread over the interweb faster than a squirrel crasher. Well OK, maybe ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. As I'm sure many of you know, Android has three distinct 'volumes' - ...