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This Is How GM and GE Are Going to Monetize Electric Vehicle Charging
I stopped by the Chevrolet booth at CES to check out the new Spark electric vehicle, which is slated to launch sometime around June, and a rep showed me a rather interesting new charger designed by GE...
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The Trouble With Google Diplomacy 'Invading' North Korea
Nobody was exactly sure what Eric Schmidt was doing in North Korea before he left, and now that he's back things aren't much clearer. After observing computer labs and meeting with officials in...
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Going Deaf? Take This Pill, Shout Scientists
A recent discovery made by researchers in Boston stands to painlessly restore hearing for millions of people. It involves a drug that was initially intended for Alzheimer's patients but, much to the...
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How Google Knows if You Were Sick Yesterday
Boston is currently experiencing its worst outbreak since the H1N1 swine flu panic of 2009—the mayor has just declared a state of emergency there—and cities around the country are getting hit nearly...
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Letter from CES: Polaroid Is Just Throwing Spaghetti Against the Wall
In the meanderings of Kodak and Polaroid, we've discovered what it's like to be a film photography company in a post-film world. Kodak has made a complete exit from film, while Polaroid has...
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The Uneasy Case for Steroids
Barry Bonds: In it to win it. Image via Sports Agent Blog When baseball writers cast their votes for the baseball Hall of Fame this year, they failed to elect a single player—the first time that has...
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The Other Flu Epidemic: Information
Here's a thing: I don't remember the flu being ever scary as a kid (which would have been through about 1993, for reference). Maybe it's still not scary for kids, because things are just a lot less...
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'Mardi Gras in a Can': Consider the Drum Buddy, the Mysterious Light-Powered...
This year Mardi Gras falls on February 12th, but the Carnival season already started this past weekend. For anyone living in a nose to the grindstone kind of place like New York, where the most...
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Thanks to Fracking, All of Our Stuff Will Be Made Out of Natural Gas
We typically think about natural gas—to the extent that we think about it at all—as a fuel source. Natural gas plants generate electricity. Gas feeds the burners that heat our stoves. But it can also...
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Welp, Here's the First Awesome Science Meme of 2013
I know, I know. Hashtags. But it's not too often that science research-related hashtags go viral on Twitter, which is why we're extra amused by #OverlyHonestMethods, a hilarious, refreshing, and...
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Letter from CES: Like It or Not, 3D Tablets Aren't Going Away
Gadmei is a Chinese manufacturer mostly known for its cheap tablets, and which also has made intermittent splashes over the past couple years for introducing glasses-free 3D tablets. Today was the...
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Letter from CES: Want to Get People into Your Phone Charger Booth? Bring...
An inordinate amount of CES 2013 is dedicated to the cell phone accessories market, which is totally chill even if it surprised me at first. But with so many booths, it takes a lot to stand out....
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American Drones Are Pummeling Pakistan, But Islamabad Is Staying Quiet
There was a time, just last year, when Pakistan's government could not stop droning on about America's aerial wars. Now, following the seven US drone strikes that have hit Pakistan in the last 11...
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Chinese Law Now Says Every New Home Must Come With a Fiber Optic Connection
In most of the U.S., you can't get a fiber optic connection even if you're willing to pay top dollar. In China, it's now a requirement that any and all newly built residences come stocked with fiber...
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E-Cigars Are Here, and They're Glorious
Wandering through the back alleys of CES, wading through the fringes of toy robots and solar phone chargers (this is the place where the USB humping dog was likely born), I found something that struck...
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Guess What? The Drug War Is Staggeringly Expensive
Like, really fucking staggeringly expensive. Turns out locking people away for drug offenses runs up quite a tab. Who knew, right? But if you need any more of a case that the whole thing is just a...
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The First Forested Skyscraper is Almost Here
Call it the first living skyscraper, call it a vertical forest—the Bosco Verticale may have been scoffed at, called infeasible when it was first announced, but the towering green superstructure is now...
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This Drone Will Wash Your Windows
I wouldn't have expected a company that makes cleaning robots to come up with one of the most genuinely useful new products at CES, but here we are. Ecovacs made its bones in robotic vacuums, but its...
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IBM Accidentally Taught Watson a Bunch of Bad Words
IBM's Watson supercomputer is really smart. It can solve mathematical problems of impossible complexity. It can forecast the weather on Earth for the next hundred years (or so). It can even beat the...
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How to Make a Game in 2013: Don't Fear the Code
If the first step to making a game this year is to start playing a lot of games and talking about them with others, your next move is to start coding and filling up your tool box. Relax. You'll do...
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