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Cafécopter, Fetch Me My Fix
I recently asked why anyone would want a tacocopter when they could have this cupcake drone. It'd be an epic battle in the business of aerial food delivery to see those two go at it. But when your...
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How Online Ads Are Slowly Choking Music Journalism
From Noisey.com: Back in the mid-90s, I doubt Ryan Schreiber had any inkling of how successful Pitchfork would be. When Schreiber started out in 1995, his goal was simply to write about bands he liked...
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A New Spaceflight Venture Is Trying to Beat NASA to Mars Within the Decade
The world's first space tourist, Dennis Tito. via In 2001, Dennis Tito put his millions to good use: he bought a ticket on a Soyuz spacecraft and spent nearly eight days visiting the International...
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Evidence of a Lost Micro-Continent Has Been Found Buried Under the Indian Ocean
Colored image showing the movement of the Reunion volcanic hotspot, whose flows likely covered the ancient micro-continent of Mauritia. Full image available at GFZ Potsdam. It's not often that new...
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So You Want to File a Restraining Order Against a Drone
Not that you bristle at the thought of all drones. Maybe you don't necessarily mind the prospect of a cafécopter fetching your morning fix, or of small-fry drones fulfilling any number of dull, dirty...
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IBM Patented a One Atom-Thick Graphene Transistor That Works 1,000 Times...
Next stop, the singularity. IBM has just won a patent for a brand new single atom graphene transistor that will allegedly “transmit electrical pulses 1,000 times faster than silicon.” And if that...
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The Crapjects Are Already Here, They're Just Not Evenly Distributed
There is a world to come where Google Glasses, equipped with the child-technologies descended from Kinect or Leap Motion, exist as a popular game platform. Probably not for long, because, in the broad...
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What Are You Going to Do with Your Anti-Piracy Six Strikes?
Three strikes laws are one of the strangest facets of the American legal system: Sure, baseball is America's pastime, but to base criminal proceedings on the made-up rules of a children's game?...
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France Finds Another Way to Make Us Dream About High-Speed Rail
A few weeks ago, a theoretical map of an American high speed rail network went viral. The map, an amalgamation of ideas from different advocacy groups, blogs, and Amtrak itself (and compiled by Alfred...
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The New $20 Nokia Phone’s Battery Lasts a Month, Is Ideal for...
When the lights go out, and the whole of human civilization is plunged into a pre-industrial dystopia, there are three gadgets above all that science fiction has definitively proven we’ll need: 1. A...
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Wikipedia Will Soon Be Available Via Text Messages
Some dudes chat on cell phones in Kenya, where Wikipedia saw 87.7 percent growth in mobile pageviews after partnering with a local carrier to offer the site for free. Image: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty...
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Video: The Size of the Universe, Explained
Is the universe infinite in size? Well, it's really effing huge, that's for sure, but can something really be infinite? Plus, we know it's growing, and if it was already infinite, how could it grow...
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Japan's Whaling Industry Is Losing Tons of Government Cash
The Japanese whaling industry is no longer sustainable, and we're not just talking about the environment. The Japanese government subsidizes whaling operations, which are unable to turn a profit...
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Global Warming Will Make the World Too Hot to Get Any Work Done
It’s a good thing that robots are stealing our jobs, because in about thirty-five years, nobody in their right mind is going to want to do them. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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That Fish You're Eating Isn’t What You Think it Is
Looks like white tuna but isn't. Also can explode your rectum. Image via Three Kitcheneers Before you stir together that next batch of delicious Tuna Helper—you know, the kind flavored with MSG,...
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Video: The Enduring Power of 'Powers of Ten'
If, like me, that animated primer on the size of the universe that's been making the rounds has you longing for more slow-burning reminders of your soberingly inginificant existence, why not return to...
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The Smartphone Market Has Turned into the Cereal Aisle
Samsung's 8-inch phablet. The smartphone game is just getting weird now. Via PC Pro If this year's Mobile Web Congress is any indication, we're nearing the end of this chapter of the smartphone era....
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Silicon Valley’s Fake Eggs Are Better Than the Real Thing
Scrambled Beyond Eggs actually look pretty close to the real thing. Via Hampton Creek Foods Most animal replacement foods are geared for vegans and vegetarians, and anyone who’s had a soy burger knows...
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Russian Street Gangs Are Hunting Down Dealers of Synthetic Weed
All the test-tube products in the burgeoning "legal highs" market are bad news, but this is just brutal. Nevermind that anti-drug sentiments already run pretty high throughout much of Russia--since...
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Inside China's Legal, Hidden Tiger Farming Trade
Captive-bred tigers in a Chinese pen, via the EIA report (PDF) Tigers are some of the biggest victims of the wildlife trade, with the rare cats' bones coveted for traditional medicine and their coats...
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