Bad Ideas

Telegram, the encrypted messaging app and longtime drug-dealer haven, is planning to monetize in 2021, founder…

With more services than ever collecting your data, it’s easy to start asking why anyone should care about most of…

The Trump administration has barely even bothered to back up its case that its use of emergency powers to strong-arm…

Update, 8/12/20, 2:00 p.m.: This post has been updated and revised to clarify that the pipelines Angielski called…

Back in May, I wrote that the that the worst case response to the coronavirus was accepting the mounting death toll…

A little over a year ago, I came up with an idea for story to turn my apartment into an indoor garden. This ended up…

Before the coronavirus, the American oil and gas industry was struggling to keep its profits up. The pandemic…

Donald Trump’s administration has turned its malicious gaze towards energy-efficient lightbulb standards originally…

The world subsidized its own demise to the tune of $5.2 trillion in 2017.

A museum dedicated to conserving nature and Brazil’s far right wing president intent on opening the Amazon…

While this should seemingly go without saying, it turns out that “kill it with fire” is not a great idea when it…

After years of on-and-off flirting, including a broken engagement in 2017, Sprint and T-Mobile have finally agreed…

With each passing year that the world fails to get a grip on its carbon emissions, the threat of climate change…

Remember Juicero? It was the darling of glass-eyed Silicon Valley investors just a year ago. But it turns out the…

As many of us prepare for holiday season travel, armed with headphones and Xanax, it’s incredible to realize that we…

Fancy computer phones are great. They let us communicate, work, document, learn, complain, order dinner, find…

On Monday, San Diego-based cybersecurity firm PacketSled announced that it had placed its CEO on administrative…

In a deeply regrettable attempt to cash in on human tragedy using viral video magic, a company called Miracle…

Bad idea: trying to use a crane to lift a water tank before checking if it’s empty or not. You can see the crane’s…