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Headline: Want a Bike-Friendly City? Get Ready to Fail Until It Works. Author: transportation
Want a Bike-Friendly City? Get Ready to Fail Until It Works
How to do the unthinkable: fast-track an infrastructure project in your city.
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Headline: Got QuickTime on Windows? Uninstall It Right Now. Author: Security
Got QuickTime on Windows? Uninstall It Right Now
QuickTime on Windows has two big vulnerabilities that Apple's never gonna patch.
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Headline: Award-Winning VR Films Hint at How Far the Medium Will Go. Author: Virtual Reality
Award-Winning VR Films Hint at How Far the Medium Will Go
After a globe-trotting roadshow, the Kaleidscope VR Film Festival has handed out its prizes—and the future of VR storytelling is bright indeed.
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Headline: The Strange Case of the Woman Who Can’t Remember Her Past—Or Imagine Her Future. Author: Longread
The Strange Case of the Woman Who Can’t Remember Her Past—Or Imagine Her Future
Meet the first person ever diagnosed with severely deficient autobiographical memory. She knows facts about her life but can't mentally relive any of it.
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Headline: How British Scientists Got Inside North Korea to Study a Volcano. Author: Science
How British Scientists Got Inside North Korea to Study a Volcano
For weeks at a time in 2011, British and American researchers have gone to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, as North Korea is formally...
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Headline: Inside Google’s Plan to Make VR Amazing for Absolutely, Positively Everyone. Author: Longread
Inside Google’s Plan to Make VR Amazing for Absolutely, Positively Everyone
Make no mistake: Google’s interest in VR goes far beyond Cardboard.
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Headline: Researchers Crack Microsoft and Google’s Shortened URLs to Spy on People. Author: Security
Researchers Crack Microsoft and Google’s Shortened URLs to Spy on People
They were even able to identify a young woman who'd sought Google Maps directions to a Planned Parenthood clinic.
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Headline: Oh Good: Congress Can’t Even Agree to Protect the US From Zika. Author: Oh Good
Oh Good: Congress Can’t Even Agree to Protect the US From Zika
Republicans are currently holding up an emergency Zika funding that states need to control mosquito populations.
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Headline: Review: FujiFilm X70. Author: product review
Review: FujiFilm X70
Amazing image quality coupled with a small and lightweight design make the X70 an excellent travel and street-photography camera.
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Headline: Some Can Draw Bikes From Memory. Some … Definitely Can’t. Author: Design
Some Can Draw Bikes From Memory. Some … Definitely Can’t
Gianluca Gimini has asked more than 500 people to draw a bicycle from memory. Most people can't.
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Headline: Samsung’s New Soundbar Makes Explosions (And Rain) Rain Down From Above. Author: gear
Samsung’s New Soundbar Makes Explosions (And Rain) Rain Down From Above
The four-piece Samsung HW-K950 system brings a Dolby Atmos theater into your living room.
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Headline: At the Vatican, Sanders Calls for a ‘Moral Economy’. Author: Election 2016
At the Vatican, Sanders Calls for a ‘Moral Economy’
Same stump speech, different stump.
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Headline: Making AI Play Lots of Videogames Could Be Huge (No, Seriously). Author: Artificial Intelligence
Making AI Play Lots of Videogames Could Be Huge (No, Seriously)
For certain AI projects, videogames are emerging as a missing link in AI development to help transition AI learning from digital spaces to the real...
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Headline: How Breakthrough Starshot’s Tiny Spacecraft Can Hack Physics to Go Interstellar. Author: Space
How Breakthrough Starshot’s Tiny Spacecraft Can Hack Physics to Go Interstellar
The goal of the Starshot program is to create small nanocraft to travel at very high speeds in order to reach another star. Why so...
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Headline: Google’s Search Algorithm Could Steal the Presidency. Author: Election 2016
Google’s Search Algorithm Could Steal the Presidency
The magical accuracy of search engine results may be the worst thing to happen to democracy since unfettered campaign donations.
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Headline: The Supermarket Must Die. App-Fueled Services Can Kill It. Author: Business
The Supermarket Must Die. App-Fueled Services Can Kill It
Thanks to the smartphone-addicted consumer, GPS, apps, and the Internet, startups are reinventing a $638 billion industry.
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Headline: It’s Not Just The Force Awakens That Syncs With Dark Side of the Moon. Author: whooooa dude
It’s Not Just The Force Awakens That Syncs With Dark Side of the Moon
It's not just "Wizard of Oz" and "The Force Awakens," people. Check out these other four perfect match-ups, and we'll see you on the Pink...
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Headline: Every Dazed and Confused Character, Ranked by Coolness. Author: Obsessions
Every Dazed and Confused Character, Ranked by Coolness
With "spiritual successor" Everybody Wants Some!! in theaters today, here's the definitive ranking of the coolest customers from Linklater's original.
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Headline: Facebook Has Seized the Media, and That’s Bad News for Everyone But Facebook. Author: social media
Facebook Has Seized the Media, and That’s Bad News for Everyone But Facebook
News has been co-opted by Facebook. That’s not good for the industry—or for you.
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Headline: ESPN Has Decided Drone Racing Is a Sport Because Internet. Author: Pioneers
ESPN Has Decided Drone Racing Is a Sport Because Internet
By taking on drone racing, ESPN makes a bet on the digital generation.