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Bats Are Literally Falling Out of Trees in Australia Because It's So Hot
via Shek Graham/Flickr It’s hard to feel grateful for something like the polar vortex, though you wouldn’t wish this sort of antipodal summer on anyone or anything: It’s so damn hot that bats are...
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Too Much Gaming Can Make You See Things
When this happens, it's time to take a break. Image via Flickr/Patrick Brosset Ever got a little carried away after an extended gaming session and started to see the world in Minecraft pixels? Or...
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The Future of Weather Forecasts: Cloudy With a Chance of Accuracy
Today's forecast via Climate Reanalyzer. The blue zone is -20 to 20oF. It's cold as hell. The polar vortex spinning in the Arctic pushed a brutal chill down into the US, plummeting temperatures to...
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The World's First Precision-Guided Rifle Has Gone Semi-Automatic
Teaser for TrackingPoint Solution's new 500 Series assault rifles There is nothing quite like shooting a long-range, laser-guided robo rifle off the top of a mountain in Texas. For someone who had...
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The Habitable Zone for Exoplanets May Be 14 Times Wider Than We Thought
Artistic depiction of Kepler 62f via NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech. It's hard to believe that the Kepler space observatory has only been in orbit for five years. The plucky spacecraft has discovered hundreds...
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The State of 3D Printing
Here at CES, 3D printing is a Big Deal. Seriously, the capitalization is warranted: additive manufacturing businesses have their own corral at the show, and it's full of a few dozen firms of varying...
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Defcon Is Bringing Back Its Contest for the Best Autonomous Shooting Robot
The X-Brat autonomous shooting robot is a former Defconbots contestant. The annual hacker conference Defcon just announced it's bringing back its Defconbots shooting competition after a five-year...
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Augmented Reality Just Gave Me a Nose Job and a Facelift
My modiface. Image: author I stared into a modded Kinect, and then into a monitor in split screen. The side on the left was my regular old ugly mug. On the right, my cheekbones was higher, my face...
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Sponsored Data or Not, FCC Commissioners Say They're Committed to an Open Web
Commissioners O'Reilly, Clyburn, Pai, and Rosenworcel at today's talk. The Federal Communications Commission remains committed to protecting the open internet in the face of public and private...
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An Internet of Light: Going Online with LEDs and the First Li-Fi Smartphone
The internet of light: Oledcomm's li-fi transmittor hooked up to my laptop. Image: Author For a few years now, engineers and scientists have tinkered with an alternative to wi-fi that utilizes not...
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Algorithms Could Help Predict a Book's Success
Image via Flickr/Abhi Sharma Over the past five years we’ve seen a lot of developments in the way we consume literature (yes, a time before Kindles and iBooks is really that recent), and it's got...
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Lasers Could Be Used to Hear Malaria Through the Skin
Blood smear infected with malaria via Ed Uthman/Flickr Last year we got some good news in the fight against malaria: The number of infections dropped as did the mortality rate for those who are...
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Remote-Controlled Wearable Sex Toys Are Coming to Lingerie Near You
In a world of wearable technology and increasingly smart sex gadgets, it was only a matter of time before we saw wearable tech smart sex toys. Sex-tech company OhMiBod unveiled the blueMotion, a...
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Steam Machines Will Be Great, According to a Filthy Casual
Alienware's Steam Machine prototype with apple for size (didn't have a banana, sorry). Confession No. 1: I currently only own a Nintendo 64 and an SNES. Confession No. 2: When it comes to events like...
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Watson's 'Jeopardy!'-Winning Artificial Intelligence Is Now for Sale
Watson before its makeover. Image: Wikimedia In the tech behemoths' ongoing battle for supremacy, IBM has been taking a beating—more like Big Black-and-Blue, am I right? Eh? But the once-mighty...
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Why We Need Carnivores
Edited image via Wikimedia Commons. Carnivores get a bad rap. Just think about the last time you watched a nature documentary. It’s easy to marvel at the Zen-like beauty of a herd of reindeer as they...
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But Can It Weather Storms? And Other Questions About the World's New Largest...
via Shell/Flickr When you’ve got something unprecedented to insure, Lloyd’s of London is still the one to call, which is why the oil company Shell is having Lloyd’s insure the largest vessel on the...
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Here Are a Bunch of Classic Sci-Fi Shows Playing at the Same Time
Every "Twilight Zone" episode, ever. What's that? Looking to catch up on your Twilight Zone viewing? Don't worry. YouTube user Omni Verse has you covered. Omni has mashed together all 156 episodes of...
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The 'Y' Chromosome Isn't Going Extinct
Photo: Flickr/Rosmary Sorry, people hoping for that world without men: The ‘Y’ chromosome isn’t going anywhere, according to a new analysis by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley....
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Making Peace with Data Waste, Overflow, and Excess at Berlin's Art Hack Day
Image courtesy of Art Hack Day Mass surveillance and privacy are issues infiltrating art with greater frequency. Last fall, for instance, we interviewed Curtis Wallen about his Aaron Brown project,...
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