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"I Don't Know a Better Way to Do It," NSA Chief Keith Alexander Tells Congress
Screenshot via Wikimedia Even amid new details revealing the outrageous scope of the US government's snooping, NSA Director Keith Alexander seems determined to defend the agency's dragnet surveillance...
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Scientists Say They Have Found a Way to Outsmart Rain
Image via Flickr A team of MIT engineers say they’ve discovered the most waterproof material ever, and it has the potential to bring about a drier future, free from the personal nuisance and industrial...
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'Cache Monet' Woos Art Collectors with GIFs
A screenshot of Cache Monet On November 13, the Brooklyn-based interactive creative Tim Nolan launched Cache Monet, a retro site filled with 1990s-inspired GIFs. In three weeks, he had over 880,000...
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Was Stonehenge the Ultimate Rock Gig?
Image via Flickr/mari There’s always been mystery around Stonehenge, the impressive prehistoric stone circle in Wiltshire, England that archaeologists believe could have been built as early as 3000 BC....
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Twitter Had the Best Year Ever
Image via Flickr/Hank Mitchell Twitter has been in the zone all year, capturing the hearts of investors, employees, and users alike. As a classic tale of Silicon Valley success, its creation myth has...
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By Privatizing Secrets, Greenwald and Omidyar Are Turning Them Into a...
Image: Flickr The Glenn Greenwald bashing taking place in certain corners of the media is nothing short of ferocious. Plenty of loud voices are pissed that the former Guardian reporter is teaming up...
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The New Kings of Kong
Hank Chien is an affable 39-year-old Harvard graduate with his own plastic surgery practice in Queens, NY. He also holds the Guinness World Record for the original arcade version of Donkey Kong, with...
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Only 38 Percent of Internet Traffic Is From Real Humans Now
Image via Flickr Imagine if nearly two-thirds of the world's population were actually robots indistinguishable from humans, and a big chunk of them were trying to mess with you. That pretty much sums...
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This Map Shows the Huge Gender Gap in Science Publishing
Darker shades of blue show countries where the gender gap is largest. Photo: Indiana University Men account for roughly 70 percent of all authors of peer-reviewed scientific research, according to a...
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Why the US Gave an Athlete Visa to a Professional Video Gamer
ViOLet being interviewed for Gamespot Although your mom might not recognize playing video games as a sport, US Citizenship and Immigration Services does—so stuff it, Mom! Months after the lobbying...
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The Synth Anyone Can Build
LittleBit's synthesizer kit, laid out and ready for fun. Photos by Mariano Carranza Traditional and current modular synthesizers can appear barbaric, daunting, and expensive, leaving most people to...
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Your LinkedIn Password Is On Display in a Museum in Germany
Images: Aram Bartholl If you've forgotten your LinkedIn password, you could always do the account reset thing. Or you could ask the artist Aram Bartholl to find it for you—there's a good chance he'll...
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What Every Place on Earth Sounds Like
The whole world according to aporee's soundmap, where the size of the red dots and numbers within indicate the number of recordings from a particular area Throughout our lives, we move quite a bit and...
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Revealed: The FBI's Internal Guidelines for Warrantless Drone Surveillance
Slide from internal FBI documents laying out the Bureau's legal case for drone surveillance That the Federal Bureau of Investigation is intensely interested in drone technology should come as no...
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This Is What Cell Phone Signals Would Look Like If You Could See Them
All images courtesy of Nickolay Lamm Our phone obsession has reached a point where there are nearly more cell phones in use today than people living on the planet. Which means the world's cities and...
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Where Did Sea Sponges' Nervous Systems Go?
via Ryan Somma/Flickr Researchers just sequenced the genome of a type of comb jelly called a sea walnut, and what they found could rewrite the earliest chapter of animal evolution. Comb jellies are...
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Meet the Organic Chemist Who Uses a DIY Tupperware Beat Box to Make Music
ingMob using his DIY tupperware Monome controller. Image: Weitekamp Raymond Weitekamp, aka ingMob, had his mind forever warped by the minimal design and limitless possibilities of the Monome, a "blank...
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Computers Can Tell If You're a Hipster
Via the University of California, San Diego Machines are slowly learning to think like humans, which unfortunately means they're learning our annoying tendency to slap dubious, stereotypical labels on...
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The Pirate Bay's Peruvian Site Is Up
View The Year in Pirate Bay Domains in a larger map The Pirate Bay has arrived in South America. On Tuesday we recapped The Pirate Bay's year on the run from the law. The site's went through five...
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Sperm-Powered Micro-Robots Could Offer a New Method of Fertilization
Watch the spermbot in action. Video via Youtube/New Scientist It's cool when robots mimic the biological world, but it's possibly even cooler when the two combine to make awesome robot-biology...
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