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How Nutella Explains the World
via Flickr Not only is Nutella sold all over the world—250,000 tons of the scrumptious chocolate goo is sold across 75 countries every year—its ingredients are sourced from just about everywhere. It’s...
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Water Jets Blasting from Europa Should Be All We Need To Justify an Expedition
Artist's concept of a plume of water vapor ejected off the surface of Europa/NASA/ESA/K. Retherford/SWRI With a couple of weeks still before the end of the year, there’s enough time to crown a new...
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Google Is Officially Bankrolling the Robot Uprising
Big Dog/Boston Dynamics It’s finally happened. Google has acquired Boston Dynamics, teaming up with some of the greatest minds in advanced robotics and engineering, cementing the inevitable coming of a...
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YouTube's New Copyright Bot Pwns Gamers
kushowa.deviantart.com Last week saw hundreds of gamers on YouTube enter a copyright Hell after the automated copyright system Content ID flagged thousands of videos, some years old, for copyright...
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Seven Crucial Questions That '60 Minutes' Failed to Ask the NSA
NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander during 60 Minutes' look at the agency One of the most difficult questions facing journalists is how one stays objective when given deep access. When a subject opens...
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Drones Will Revolutionize Farming First, Not Delivery
A Yamaha RMAX flies over a field. The buzz surrounding drones in recent months has been almost entirely focused on police, FBI, and government use of drones, and of course on Amazon’s Prime Air drone...
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The Lost Spy: Dissecting the CIA's Biggest Scandal Since 9/11
Video: the case of Robert Levinson, explained (The PBS News Hour) The AP, the Times and other news organizations knew for years, but they didn't spill the beans until Friday: Robert Levinson was an...
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Who's Afraid of Bitcoin? These Countries
Image: Flickr One of the founding premises of Bitcoin is that it isn’t controlled or regulated by any central authority, yet as its market value and public popularity keep climbing, central banks and...
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Why the Biggest Cell Providers Reject Anti-Theft Tech
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón says phone carriers are more concerned about insurance profits than stolen phones. Via Wikipedia As smartphone theft continues to rise, one prominent...
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How Smartphones Will Replace Bird Surveys
via Mike Baird/Flickr The longest running “citizen scientist program” in the world started Saturday as the National Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count began sending out groups of bird-watching...
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Amazon Already Thinks Its Workers Are Delivery Drones
Inside a South Carolina Amazon fulfillment center. Images: YouTube screenshot. Amazon announced its intention to build a fleet of delivery drones, and the media eagerly dove in: was the effort actually...
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Ancient Chinese Bones Help Explain Why Cats Like Us
Why do cats, as aloof as they are, like humans? New evidence from China will help answer the question. Image via Wikimedia Commons While the debate about how dogs were first domesticated has seemingly...
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Polynesians Used Binary Long Before Europeans
Edited image via Wikimedia Commons Your computer operates on a bunch of 1s and 0s, a system better known as binary notation. But despite powering the digital age, binary is old, having received its...
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If We Don't Rein In E-Waste, Our Kids Won't Be Able to Afford Smartphones
Image: Flickr, CC Glaciers are melting fast but our mountains of electronic trash—old TVs, phones, computers, monitors, e-toys, small appliances—are expected to grow 33 percent in less than five years....
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The Army's Truck-Mounted Laser Is a Certified Drone Killer
The Army's HEL MD truck-mounted laser, courtesy the Army The US military loves drones and lasers, so naturally it plans on mounting lasers on drones. Of course, they don't always mix: For the first...
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French Now Has Its Own Word For Sexting
via Wikimedia Commons In France, 40 immortals carry swords and—as part of their solemn duty as vanguards of the French language—just coined a new term for sexting. If a Frenchman asks how you feel...
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A Federal Judge Laid the Smackdown on the NSA's Phone Tapping
Photo via Flickr/CC. A federal judge ruled this afternoon that the National Security Agency's sweeping phone surveillance program likely violates the 4th Amendment ban on unreasonable search and...
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Coming in 2014: Murder by Internet and the Collapse of Bitcoin and Tor
Security experts have foreseen the future of cybercrime, and it's exceedingly grim. A report out today from the web security firm IID (Internet Identity) predicts that within the next two years we'll...
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The Case for an Instagram of Sound
via Wikimedia Commons A brief catalog of sounds that I appreciate hearing more than technologized civilization's ever thickening din: First, the sound that smoothed sandstone rock flakes, released down...
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China’s Shadow Currency Addiction Is Inflating ‘the Mother of All Bubbles’
China has a thing for a speculative, off-the-books, and hard-to-regulate shadow currency—and it isn’t Bitcoin. Indeed, it’s an addiction that makes China's on-again, off-again fling with the hyped up...
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