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Meet Petrobot, the Machine Big Oil Built to Replace Tank Inspectors
Image: Flickr Everyone knows oil companies have more money than God. Those deep, viscous pockets, combined with a newfangled drive to be as efficient as possible—that oil's peaking, after all, and the...
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The Trailer for Thomas Pynchon's 'Bleeding Edge' Is Trollery to the Nth Degree
Look at this thing. Just look at this thing. Yes, this is the trailer for the upcoming Thomas Pynchon yarn, Bleeding Edge. The fuck, right? The five-minute walkabout leaves us with more questions than...
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Crowdsourced, 3D-Printed Sculptures Are the Knitting Circles of the Future
Photo courtesy of PrintToPeer A Canadian multimedia artist and a 3D printing startup have teamed up on a tech-meets-art project that's never been tried before, and it's got plenty of 21st century...
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Bitcoin Exchange Berlin Is Bringing Digital Currency to Market
All photos by the author On a clear Saturday afternoon in Berlin, I checked out the third Bitcoin Exchange Berlin (BXB), which is the first face-to-face marketplace of its kind in Germany—and likely...
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The British Parliament Wants to Block Porn, But Only After Looking at It
Image via Wikimedia I always say you can't legislate morality, and now the members of Parliament have provided a ripe example of why that's true. Just a month after prime minister David Cameron...
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How Much Do Data Brokers Know About You? Now You Can Find Out
Intel's team inside a Facebook data center, via Intel's Flickr Acxiom, a major data broker that helps fuel targeted ads for the likes of Facebook, has taken a big step towards revealing just what...
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Complications from Robot Surgery Are Underreported, Johns Hopkins Found
Image via Army Medicine on Flickr As if robotic surgery doesn't already conjure images of creepy robot fingers in your opened guts, new research out of Johns Hopkins suggests that we don’t know the...
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Good Luck Trying to Shoot Down a Drone
You've got a far better chance of throwing off a pesky drone with a $10 laser pointer. Photo via Flickr / CC. Last we heard, the city of Deer Trail, Colorado, saw its town board split on an ordinance...
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A Breakthrough in Fog Harvesting Is Good News for Arid Areas
Photo: Jenn Dyer/Flickr Systems to harvest water from moisture-rich fog seem like the stuff of the future, but the concept itself is actually quite simple—a variation of water collection techniques...
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How Easy Is It to Stalk Someone with Twitter?
Screenshot from Geosocialfootprint.com The downsides to using Twitter’s geo-tagging, where each tweet gives out your location, seem pretty clear: Any creep knows where you are. Providing one's location...
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NASA Will Talk to Its Moon Probe with Lasers
An artist's concept of LADEE in orbit via On Friday, NASA is sending a spacecraft to the Moon to investigate an Apollo-era mystery. Moon-walking astronauts reported seeing a glow on the lunar horizon,...
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A Storm Large Enough to Pull Water from Saturn's Depths
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute That absolutely massive storm swirling across Saturn's face in the above photo was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in February 2011, some 12 weeks after...
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How Climate Change Warmed Syria Up for War
Image: Flickr Most Americans' understanding of the root of the Syrian conflict boils down to something like this: Bashar al-Assad is a sociopathic maniac who'd rather mow down his own people than...
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These Historic Space Snapshots Are Like Instagram In Orbit
"Reprocessed 1966 Lunar Orbiter picture of the Earth and Moon." Image via UCL The 100-year-old selfies my great great grandfather Herman Bohlman took are better than anything I've ever seen on...
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Fukushima's $470 Million Ice Wall Could Actually Work
A Google Maps aerial view of the four Fukushima reactors surrounded by Tepco's proposed dimensions for the ice wall Japan this week announced its intentions to build an ice wall surrounding the damaged...
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The US Government Just Upheld Barrett Brown's Gag Order
Photo via Nikki Loehr. The gag order in connection with the US government's prosecution of journalist Barrett Brown was upheld today in Texas court. Effective immediately, neither Brown—who is facing...
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Why We Won't Use Drones in Syria
Armed Reaper, via US Air Force. Almost all signs are pointing to US intervention in war-torn Syria. Whether you like it or not, this is happening. Which has me asking: Why no drones? They're being used...
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Self-Destructing Data Is the Spy-Proof Future of the Internet
Privacy just might be the tech world's new hot commodity. Which is why an old trend is gaining steam: “ephemeral media”—a way to make photos, texts, IMs, or emails that self-destruct once they’re...
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Why Isn't Revenge Porn Illegal Everywhere?
Photo via AJ Batac/Flickr California lawmakers are being lauded for clearing the first hurdle to a revenge porn ban in the state, which would only be the second state in the union to do so, behind New...
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A Five-Year-Old Flew an Aeroplane Over Beijing
Tiger dads around the globe had reason to celebrate this weekend (and to cringe in jealousy) when Chinese media reported that that one Beijing man's five year old donned goggles and a tiny flightsuit...
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