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What Are Your Earliest Web Browser Memories?

Microsoft has rung the death knell for Internet Explorer — and it’s likely that few of us will mourn. IE has been sort of a joke for years, but there was a time when it was mighty. How far back into browser history do you go? Tell us what you remember. Certainly there are reasons…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

How Big Data Busted Abe Lincoln

It’s easy to think of data journalism as a modern invention. With all the hype, a casual reader might assume that it was invented sometime during the 2012 presidential campaign. Better-informed observers can push the start date back a few decades, noting with self-satisfaction that Philip Meyer did his pioneering work during the Detroit riots…

Tech News Scott Klein - ProPublica

This Is How Easily Our Cities Could Become High-Density Solar Power Plants

Solar energy has a dark side. Those gargantuan plants that sprawl out like deconstructed disco balls sacrifice valuable open space and put wildlife, and possibly human lives, at risk. A new study by Stanford researchers says that focusing our solar energy efforts in already-developed urban areas could yield more power—by collecting energy where we actually…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Hear Bucky Fuller Talk About Life, Airplanes, and the Future

There’s something jarring about hearing old interviews of legendary futurist Buckminster Fuller. He speaks at a rapid pace, like each word is racing to get out before the next. But both Fuller’s style and his self-assuredness make it hard not to get swept up in his unbridled optimism about the future of technology — especially…

Tech News Matt Novak

A 3D View Inside the Earth’s Liquid Core, Based On Earthquakes

Every so often, earthquakes remind us that the solid ground beneath our feet can tremble and shake like rock jello. But there’s an upside to all this shaking: Seismic waves are how we peer deep inside the Earth to map what’s under the crust. The Titan computer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Gorgeous silk lamps bloom like flowers when you turn them on

Studio DRIFT made these lovely lamps that feel alive because they’ve been designed to bloom like a flower. It’s a beautiful idea that’s even more gorgeous when you see it happen, I would love to walk into my living room and have these ethereal lights dance for me as they descend and shine up the…

Sploid Casey Chan

A Case With a Pop-Up Crank Keeps Your Smartphone Charged Forever

Hand crank-powered flashlights and radios for weather emergencies are nothing new, but what about when your smartphone dies in the middle of the day? That’s just as dire an emergency, and it’s inspired the creation of this smartphone case with a built-in charger and pop-up crank that can, at least in theory, keep your phone…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Fantastic Wrist Gadgets That Came Way Before the Smartwatch

Humans have been putting technology on their wrists for a long time—and not just to tell the time. The Apple Watch and others are just the latest in a long line of wrist-borne devices, so here’s a brief history of “watches” that were smart for their time, too. An AK-39, a German pilot and navigator’s…

Tech News Attila Nagy

You Can Send Money To Your Friends Through Facebook Messenger Now

Facebook Messenger now lets you send payments to your friends—exactly as you would with Venmo or Paypal. Except it’s way easier, because just about EVERYONE already has Facebook. The new functionality is built directly into the Facebook Messenger app. The only thing you need to do to pay your roommate for bills, rent, or dinner…

Social Media Mario Aguilar

This video about space and life is so inspiring

Supersymmetry is a short film made by Trent Jaklitsch as an ode to his father. But really, it’s an inspirational tale for all of us. Using personal footage from his childhood along with NASA archival footage and other publicly available clips, he stitches together a story about how the universe created us and how we…

Sploid Casey Chan

GTX Titan X: Nvidia’s Absurd New $1,000 Graphics Card Is a Beast

Two years ago, Nvidia announced its original Titan graphics card, a bad-boy built on the company’s Kepler technology and for a time the most powerful card out there. Now, the Titan X is here and it’s ready to reclaim the throne. The new Titan X is the fastest single-GPU card around, and it looks to…

Tech News Eric Limer

How LA Is Building the World’s Most Futuristic Port

If you live anywhere in the US, chances are that you have a product in your home right now that came through the Port of Los Angeles. The largest port in the Western hemisphere handles about a quarter of all cargo distributed throughout the country—about $1 billion a day. Now LA is working to make…

Tech News Alissa Walker

This Watch Puts a Celestial Dance Between the Sun and Moon On Your Wrist

Once they figured how to use gears and other mechanisms to accurately keep track of time, watchmakers expanded what their clockwork creations could do. Timepieces became even more mesmerizing to look at, and as Frédéric Jouvenot’s new Sîn watch proves, that’s kept mechanical watches relevant and desirable even in a time where everyone has a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Windows 10 Could Mean Never Typing a Password Again

Biometric security is a feature already found on lots of mobile phones and tablets and it’s getting better and better, but Microsoft wants to bring the tech front and center on Windows 10, using fingerprint, faces, and even your irises to completely kill the password once and for all. The two new features, Windows Hello…

Tech News Darren Orf

The Largest Spiral Escalator Ever Built Just Opened In Shanghai

Japanese firm Mitsubishi Electric is the only manufacturer of spiral escalators in the world—but there aren’t many. Now, a shopping mall in Shanghai has opened up two new iterations, each of which reach seven stories up into the building. Spiral escalators are still fairly rare. You can find a few in the U.S. at Caesars…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Twitter’s New Threat Reporting Tool Is a Useless Punt

Twitter, a service that admits it sucks at dealing with trolls, just announced a new tool for reporting harassment to the police. It looks like a good step at first glance—if you ignore the fact that it’s a responsibility dodging, spineless fix that’s highly unlikely to help anyone being harassed or threatened Twitter. This is…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Awesome liquid 3D printer oozes out things from goo

This new Carbon3D printer totally looks like the science fiction future but it’s real. The liquid 3D printing method uses liquid resin, laser light and oxygen to print out things up to 25-100 times faster than traditional 3D printers. It’s fascinating technology and it looks like things are just magically rising from the gooey liquid,…

Sploid Casey Chan

Tuesday Game Room: From Dawn Till Duscae Edition

It’s been nearly a decade since the game that would become Final Fantasy XV was announced, and this week, we finally get to actually play some of it. How cute, it thinks it’s a real video game and everything! Will you venture into Episode Duscae this week? Tell us about it in Tuesday Game Room!…

Tech News James Whitbrook

This Designer Uses the Silver Inside All the Gadgets We Throw Away

How long have you had the computer or phone you’re reading this on? How about the others that proceeded it? Inside all of these electronics are precious metals that are usually trashed—even though they are still usable, as this Cape Town jeweler proves. The circuit boards that make up the bones of our devices depend…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

You Have To Look Closely To See That This NES Is Actually a Cake

There’s no shortage of wacky wedding cakes on the internet, but this creation is particularly noteworthy because until you get a good close-up look at it, it doesn’t look like a cake at all. You’d swear it was a functional NES console complete with two controllers and a copy of Tetris, but in reality it’s…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

What Are Your Earliest Web Browser Memories?

How Big Data Busted Abe Lincoln

This Is How Easily Our Cities Could Become High-Density Solar Power Plants

Hear Bucky Fuller Talk About Life, Airplanes, and the Future

A 3D View Inside the Earth’s Liquid Core, Based On Earthquakes

Gorgeous silk lamps bloom like flowers when you turn them on

A Case With a Pop-Up Crank Keeps Your Smartphone Charged Forever

The Fantastic Wrist Gadgets That Came Way Before the Smartwatch

You Can Send Money To Your Friends Through Facebook Messenger Now

This video about space and life is so inspiring

GTX Titan X: Nvidia’s Absurd New $1,000 Graphics Card Is a Beast

How LA Is Building the World’s Most Futuristic Port

This Watch Puts a Celestial Dance Between the Sun and Moon On Your Wrist

Windows 10 Could Mean Never Typing a Password Again

The Largest Spiral Escalator Ever Built Just Opened In Shanghai

Twitter’s New Threat Reporting Tool Is a Useless Punt

Awesome liquid 3D printer oozes out things from goo

Tuesday Game Room: From Dawn Till Duscae Edition

This Designer Uses the Silver Inside All the Gadgets We Throw Away

You Have To Look Closely To See That This NES Is Actually a Cake

Artemis 2 Live Updates: Countdown to the Moon 🔴

Samsung Slashes $350 Off 49″ Odyssey Curved Gaming Monitor to Clear Out Stock on Amazon

How the Artemis 2 Moon Mission Could Go Dangerously Wrong

Dyson V8 Cordless Vacuum Holds Its Lowest Price Even After Amazon’s Spring Sale Ends, Likely a Clearance Move

Lego Is Bringing Bionicle Back, But Not in the Way You’d Want

Richard Branson Is Still Trying to Make Space Tourism Happen, Selling Tickets at $750,000

Beats Powerbeats Fit Drops Below Black Friday Pricing Across All Colorways as Amazon Continues to Cut Prices on the Earbuds

Google Pixel 9a Hits a Record Low on Clearance, With Trade-In Making It Nearly Half the Price of Pixel Buds Pro 2

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