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We Were Promised Reverse Vending Machines
Reverse vending machines are increasingly popular in Europe and parts of China. You can find them in grocery stores, schools, office parks and street corners. The concept works exactly as you imagine...
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Amateur Videos of the Russian Meteorite Actually Helped Science
A fireball streaking across the sky as seen from a driver's dashboard. via It’s been a little over a week since a sizable rock fell from the skies and exploded less than 15 miles above the Chelyabinsk...
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Republicans Hate Lunch, Democrats Dig Croissants, and Other Observations from...
Chick-Fil-A fans protest gay marriage with fast food. Only in America, right? Via the AP Public Policy Polling published the results of a rather amusing poll today which, rather than looking at things...
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Google's Rumored Music Streaming Service Could Give Spotify The Chills
Would you be willing to let Google take over more of your life? Google thinks so: It's rumored to be creating a subscription-based streaming service that would undoubtedly give Spotify a run for its...
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Anti-Immigration Laws Are Speeding the Rise of the Robot Workforce
A Harvest Automation nursery robot lasts at least five years, works tirelessly in hot, humid greenhouse environments, and costs a onetime sum of $30,000. Guess whose jobs the Harvest bots are going to...
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The Wild and Crazy World of AR-15 Modification
The AR-15 has become the most infamous gun in America in the last few month. The rifle, originally designed for United States troops in Vietnam, has been flying off the shelves since the Newtown and...
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Watching 'House of Cards' from Across the Digital Divide
So, I just finished Deadwood again, a most reworthy rewatching even given the supremely unjust non-conclusion. This means that it's time for a new serial drama. The problem is that I'm pretty much out...
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Iowa Is Selling One of the Oldest Government-Owned Fiber Optic Networks
Google already has a presence in Iowa, including the data center above. Might it try to scoop up a huge fiber network for cheap? Image via Google Right now, Iowa operates one of the nation’s oldest...
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There Will Be Broadband: Forgotten by the Future, Some Take the Internet Into...
Local residents gather for a B4RN dig party in Lancashire last year. Photo by Marty Dews / Flickr Look outside of your window: if you see miles of farmland, chances are you have terrible internet...
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The Navy's Transformer Drone Can Turn from a Helicopter Into a Plane Midflight
The Navy may be way behind schedule in launching its fleet of unmanned war copters, but that's not the only kind of heli-drone the world's got to worry about. The Naval Research Lab has also patented...
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4D Printing Produces Materials That Regulate Themselves
Skylar Tibbits wants the machines to assemble themselves. Image: Ryan Lash/TED2013 That 3D printing bandwagon you've been waiting to jump on? Sorry, it's already out of date. An MIT researcher has...
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CoyoteCopter and the Thrill of Inadvertently Filming Nature Porn
Like it or not, wily small-fry drones are flying under the eco banner. Whether it's dam restoration or spotting orangutan nests or looking out for some of Africa's last remaining white rhino herds,...
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The US Is Underprepared for the Cyber Cold War with China
With drones and code able to harm physical targets remotely, the above will increasingly become the battlefield of the future. Via Situation Brief One of the more memorable repartees from this last...
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Meet A1 MoufPiece, the Search-Optimized Rapper
You probably haven't heard of A1 MoufPiece. But if you're not careful, you might accidentally listen to his music. Born in Northern California under the name Aaron Richardson, the 32-year-old rapper...
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Brain Cells May Live Longer When Not Tied to Their Weakling, Mortal Flesh
Good news for you transhumanist hopefuls: Your dream of one day living forever as a brain in a jar—or as a Krang-like brain inside a bone-crushing robot—may be one step nearer. Italian scientists at...
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Thanks to the Supreme Court, We Get Warrantless Wiretaps Forever
Tuesday was a sad day for America. It was the day a little bit of freedom died, the day the National Security Agency (NSA) won, and the day that the Obama administration got its way for good. More...
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Democratized Energy Is the 1996-Era Internet. Expect a Boom Soon.
In 1996, the internet was a massive, slow-moving, and entirely befuddling entity. We’d dial up, brace ourselves for that grating AOL skronk, and click through various Yahoo! links and search Alta...
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If An Asteroid Was Going to Smash Into Earth in Two Months, This Is What a...
Man I love Quora. The questions posed and answered on the platform offer an exhilarating window into the wide worlds of science, politics, apocalyptic asteroids, and beyond. Disclaimer: This post is...
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The Personal Robot Market Is Getting Crowded
Have you ever seen the movie A.I.? You know the one where Haley Joel Osment plays a little robotic boy that scares his human "parents" at first and then they love him and then he meets up with...
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Satellite Images Show North Korea Expanding One of Its Prison Camps
North Korea's prison camps are far from being a state secret anymore. The generations of chemical experiments and other horrors of the gulags have been fairly well documented by escapees like Shin...
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