Drone Crash With Meth Could Signal New Cartel Method
“If its not happening, it soon will,” one expert says

January 23, 2015 at 11:03AM
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What Happened To The Milky Way?
Can you see the stars at night? Only a few centuries ago, the Milky Way was visible from almost anywhere in America. Today, more than 99 percent of the population in the continental U.S. live in light-polluted areas. It’s impossible to see the Milky Way in more than two-thirds of the country.

January 23, 2015 at 10:46AM
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Global Internet: Greg Wyler May Beat Elon Musk, Google, Facebook
Greg Wyler is starting a third venture, OneWeb, with engineering headquarters in Silicon Valley, that aspires to create an elaborate array of low-orbit satellites to bring Internet access to everyone on Earth.

January 23, 2015 at 08:40AM
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The World in 2030
We asked 15 of the smartest people we know for their most out-there predictions.

January 23, 2015 at 01:02AM
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Can robots be creative?
Why the singularity is greatly exaggerated.

January 22, 2015 at 11:51PM
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This Nightmare Machine Mows Ditches
This horrifying thing is a Claas Xerion 3300 VC Octopus, which is a stupid name because it has four arms instead of eight. But don’t say that to its face.

January 22, 2015 at 04:14PM
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Funny or Die releases humorous weather app containing actual forecasts
Funny or Die Weather is just the first in a “series of apps” that the company plans to release this year, according to the release.

January 22, 2015 at 02:59PM
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Apple targets for Apple Watch battery life revealed, A5-caliber CPU inside
Sources tell us that battery life has remained a source of concern for Apple over the past year, and was a contributing factor for Apple pushing back the retail launch from an originally planned late 2014 to early 2015.

January 22, 2015 at 02:00PM
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A Spy in the Machine
How a brutal government used cutting-edge spyware to hijack one activist’s life.

January 22, 2015 at 12:46PM
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You’re a Luddite? Don’t Worry, It’s Human Nature
The other day, I pointed out the pink sunset between the cluster of bare winter trees behind our house to my five-year-old daughter, and she turned to me, her face blank, and said, “Is that real?”

January 22, 2015 at 09:44AM
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