An Ultra-Simple Tourniquet That’s Saving Soldiers’ Lives
When you think of surgery, images of calm doctors working on anesthetized patients in pristine operating rooms come to mind. Combat medics face a different reality. They often ply their trade on dusty desert roads, and, when trying to save a soldier’s life, a charred Humvee door sometimes has to suffice for an operating table.

June 24, 2014 at 2:45AM
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Why TV captions are still so terebel
Machine translation is responsible for much of today’s closed-captioning and subtitling of broadcast and online streaming video. It can’t register sarcasm, context, or word emphasis. It can’t capture the cacophonous sounds of multiple voices speaking at once, essential for understand the voice of an angry crowd of protestors or a cheering crowd. It just types what it registers.

June 23, 2014 at 9:10PM
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Sex and Silicon Valley: the veritable arms race of the dating app industry
The bay area tech boom has given many of the industry’s workers money, confidence and a hedonistic tinge.

June 23, 2014 at 3:37PM
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How to build a Tesla, according to Tesla
Ever since Tesla chief executive Elon Musk offered to give away  the firm’s electric car patents for free, the rest of the auto industry has leapt on the technology. Among those lining up outside Musk’s door? Some of the biggest names in cars, such as BMW and Nissan. But just what is in Musk’s patent portfolio that has them so excited? A lot of what you need to know to actually build a Tesla, for starters.

June 23, 2014 at 1:23PM
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How Disney built and programmed an animatronic president
Before programming languages and systems on a chip, there was voltage and sound.

June 23, 2014 at 12:26PM
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