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A Brief History of Pre-Drone Vintage Aerial Photography
New York City from the Times building. Image via Library of Congress One of the gadgets pitched at this year's CES that I'm actually pretty psyched on is the Pocket Drone. The "personal flying robot"...
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Does Misery in Literature Really Follow Miserable Economics?
via Mark Hillary/Flickr Heads up, we’re about four years out from some pretty depressing books, at least according to new research that links economic misery to misery in literature. According to a...
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Your Car Needs an App: The Automobiles of CES
Audi's gorgeous quattro laserlight (yes, lowercase) concept Modern cars are technological marvels, chock full of more computers and sensors than just about anything else we own. Even then, the...
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Bitcoin's Fatal Flaw Was Nearly Exposed
Who controls Bitcoin? Image via Flickr/BTC Keychain Panic loomed in Bitcoin land on Thursday after the community’s largest mining operation, GHash.IO, approached half of all computing power in the...
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I Bought an E-Cigar and My World Has Changed
That's a fistful of awesome right there For almost exactly a year now, I've wanted an e-cigar. I've thought of a multitude of other things during that time span, but almost certainly no thing as much...
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Thanks to Nuclear Bombs, We Now Know Sharks Can Live to 70
A white shark, age unknown. Image via Flickr/Ken Bondy While we humans generally find sharks absolutely fascinating (how many other animals make such compelling viewing that they have their own week of...
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Take a Smart Stroll Through the Smart Watch-Controlled Smart Home of Tomorrow
Inside the smart home. Images: Derek Mead When it comes to overused buzz phrases, "smart home" is one that's fast approaching an eye roll-inducing boiling point. The idea that "the internet of things"...
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How We've Played Videogames Through the Ice and Snow
From Atari 2600's Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back With the Winter Olympic Games getting underway on February 7, sports fans are gearing up for the winter competitions—snowboarding, alpine and...
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Good News, Everybody: The ISS Just Got a Life Extension
Photo via European Space Agency The Obama administration has approved the extension of the International Space Station through 2024. On the surface, this means astronauts will retain their home 200...
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11 Things from CES That Actually Feel Futuristic
Is a 4K television a futuristic gadget? Of course not. The fact that I already saw someone advertising an 8K TV notwithstanding, flatscreens with higher resolution, DVD players with more apps, and...
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Meet the Man Who Transforms Corpses into Diamonds
People usually make for blue-colored diamonds. Images via Algordanza Rinaldo Willy's job is to transform dead people into precious stones. Willy, 33, is the founder and CEO of Algordanza, a peculiar...
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A New Bill Would Expand the Law That's Landing Hactivists in Jail
Aaron Swartz protesting SOPA in 2012, via Wikimedia You've probably heard mutterings today about the massive Target data breach in which hackers stole the payment information, names, emails, and home...
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This Sex Offender-Spotting App Sounds Like a Really Bad Idea
Video via Youtube/FacialNetwork There’s been a fair bit of discussion in the past week about an app for Google Glass that uses facial recognition to stalk “connect with” people around you. What few...
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DNA Sheds Light on the Only Known Battle Between Asian and African...
Seleucis war elephant via Wikimedia Commons If you need proof that people have stayed the same since the days of bread and circuses at the Roman Coliseum—aside from the popularity of the NFL—go ahead...
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The Case Against Clemency for Edward Snowden, In One GIF
Ever feel like you can't keep up with all the doom and gloom echoing around the internet? Motherboard's here to help. With GIFs. Welcome to THIS WEEK IN HELL, a feature that brings you hard-hitting...
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Buzzkill: A Chat with the Researcher Behind High-Free Weed
via Wikimedia Commons The mysterious relationship between cannabis and the brain is something that scientists and stoners alike have been interested in for a while. Whether the question is “how do I...
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The Siliconless Valley? Clear, Organic Transistors Are Speeding Up
via Stanford Engineering Typically my definition of organic is functionally “those avocados that cost twice as much,” but back in chemistry class it means “of, relating to, or denoting compounds...
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A Brief Nod to the United States' Still-Terrifying Nuclear Weapons Arsenal
B61 bomb rack/Wikipedia One pretty crucial thing millennials get to miss out on is nuclear dread. We have some legit fears here in the ’10s—from climate change to antibiotic resistance—but there is...
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Where Was the Healthcare.gov Whistleblower?
Garry Knight/Flickr Think about it. The United States government's largest ever online technology product, designed to support the signature legislative achievement of perhaps the most historical...
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It's Decision Time for the Atlantic's Underwater Oil Reserves
Airgun array aboard a research vessel/Wikimedia At the end of February, after recieving some 55,000 public comments on the proposal, the United States' Department of the Interior will announce its...
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