Your Precious Wet Wipes Are Destroying Your City's Sewers
Are you happy, wet wipe users? Your "dank clusters," as the New York Times calls them, are threatening to destroy the infrastructure your city depends on.
The World's Largest Vertical Farm Is Being Built In an Old Steel Mill
Across the Hudson and over Newark Bay, about 15 miles from Manhattan, a group of investors led by Goldman Sachs is financing the construction of what will become the largest indoor vertical farm in the world inside a former steel mill.
The Insanely Complicated Logistics of Building a Planetarium
Miami's building a new science museum, and it seems hell bent on making the construction process as interesting as possible.
9 Buildings By Frei Otto, the Architect Who Engineered the Future
Frei Otto, architect behind some of the most important structures and engineering ideas of the last century, has died just two weeks before he was to receive the Pritzker Prize—the award that people often describe as the Nobel Prize for architecture.
New Printing Tech Allows the Blind to Touch Priceless Paintings
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Walking into a museum and putting your hands on a priceless painting is normally, uh, frowned upon. But in Madrid right now, an unusual exhibit is inviting visitors to touch some of the most famous paintings in the world—so that the visually impaired can experience them, too.
Instead of drawing a line between those…I can't understand these people always have 100 tabs open. Once I get over seven or eight tabs I split them up into windows by topic that I can then minimize. Otherwise I just feel like my browser is spinning out of control and WHO KNOWS what amazing tabs I'll lose.
These Legendary UI Icons Are Now Hanging In a Museum
The original Mac OS icons. The Google Maps pin. The power-on symbol. These marks, which have been with us for years on our screens (or decades, in some cases), are all on display this month at the Museum of Modern Art.
The Crazy Metallurgy Apple Is Using to Sell Its Watch
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Today Apple announced two things about its Apple Watch: The day you can buy it, and the money you'll fork over for it. But we also, somewhat unexpectedly, heard a lot about the material science behind the Watch too.
A Beginner's Guide to the Secret Language of Airport Runways
For most of us, the sight of blue lights and yellow lines outside an airplane's window is the cue to turn our phones back on. For pilots, it's more like a secret language—a language that is vitally important to safety and, increasingly, embedded with emerging technology.
Egypt Is Building a New Pyramid
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Egypt, a country in the grips of a severe housing crisis, announced a glitzy new development this week—and it's a throwback either to Vegas or to ancient Egypt. Or maybe a little bit of both.
Every City Should Use Hydrophobic Paint That Shames Public Urinators
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If you've ever lived in a bar neighborhood, you know the smell. It's the stench of idiots peeing all over the walls, doors, and sidewalks of your street—and until now, there really hasn't been a solution.
A Satellite Exploded in Orbit and No One's Quite Sure Why Yet
How many satellites would you say are currently orbiting the Earth? A few hundred? Maybe a thousand? No: There are about 3,700 satellites hurtling through orbit above us—so when one of them "breaks up," it's a big deal.
The first iPhone. I couldn't believe how lucky I was. I have a vivid memory of some friends calling me spoiled for having one. They've all had iPhones for years now. Jerks.
Found: A Legendary Lost Civilization Buried In the Honduran Rainforest
The City of the Monkey God. La Ciudad Blanca, or The White City. All the names given to the lost city rumored to exist in a pristine Honduran rainforest sound mythical, but National Geographic reports that now we have evidence that the legendary city was real.
Uber Got Hacked Because It Left Its Security Key Out In Public
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Remember how Uber, in a Friday night post last week, admitted that the names and personal info of 50,000 drivers had been accessed by an unknown party? Well, Ars Technica has an update. A sad update.
Turn Your Bike Into a Glowing Beacon With Reflective Street Sign Paint
Retroreflectivity is everywhere. It's painted onto your street as line markers. It's printed on the stop sign at the end of it. It's sewn into technical clothing. It's even on the moon, thanks to Apollo. And increasingly, it's riding down the street next to you.
10 Technologies Our Cars Should Have By Now
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Windows that tint themselves. A built-in phone mount. Real warnings instead of a vague "check engine" light. Jalopnik's Chris Perkins shows us the amazing(ly simple) tech that is long overdue in cars.
Should You Worry About the Security of Apps Like Venmo?
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Over on Lifehacker, Alan Henry looks at the security of a cadre of money transfer apps—from Venmo to Square Cash—and doles out great advice on how to use them without putting yourself to unnecessary financial risk.
Welcome to the Rural Town That Wants to Build a Hyperloop Utopia
What do cities look like in the world of Hyperloop transit? Will supersonic travel turn our cities into vast, intermodal suburbs? And what about the edge towns that once bled into the country, fed by car travel—will they empty out and decay, eliminated by a new form of transportation that bypasses them?
The Latest Fukushima Leak Was Unreported for Almost a Year
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More reports, more mystery leaks, more questions about the complexity of cleaning up a broken nuclear plant.