This App Helps You Identify Which Spider You Found In Your Bed
It can be hard to tell your house millipede from your garden-variety centipede, or your dangerous brown recluse from your everyday grass spider. Now there’s an app for that.
October 9, 2014 at 06:03PM
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to Women: Don’t Ask For A Raise, Trust Karma This is not good advice.
“It’s not really about asking for a raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will give you the right raise,” Nadella told a confounded (and predominantly female) audience at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing on Thursday.
October 9, 2014 at 05:03PM
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Why I’m Betting on You to Help Shape the New American Economy
Want to the get the attention of young technocrats? Blog on their favorite website.
October 9, 2014 at 04:02PM
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Teens Really Seem to Be Using Facebook Less This Time. Definitely. Maybe.
This spring, Piper Jaffray reported that 72 percent of surveyed teens were still using Facebook. Now that number is down to 45 percent.
October 9, 2014 at 02:59PM
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How Grid Efficiency Went South
Almost every rooftop solar panel in the United States faces south, the direction that will catch the maximum energy when the sun rises in the southeast and sets in the southwest. This was probably a mistake.
October 9, 2014 at 01:52PM
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Peace Corps Sees Record Interest After Simplified Application Goes Online
Any holdouts thinking it doesn’t matter how government does its business in a digital age should consider this: The month Peace Corps put its simplified application online, the number of applicants rose 400 percent over the previous year.
October 9, 2014 at 01:03PM
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Riding In The World’s First 3D Printed Car
First guns, then houses, now cars. Let’s just start 3D printing another planet while we’re at it!
October 9, 2014 at 11:56AM
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Introducing GIFV
GIFs are no longer about .GIFs — the culture of the GIF now trumps the file format. With Project GIFV, Imgur is reimagining the looping GIF video with all the richness it deserves as a key piece of Internet culture.
October 9, 2014 at 11:05AM
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Here’s The Reason You Can’t Get Your Musician Friends To Pick Up The Phone
Just goes to show there’s a way to make anything beautiful — even things that are disigned to vaguely annoy you.
October 9, 2014 at 09:22AM
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WSJ: Apple Is Delaying Mass Production of a 12.9-Inch iPad
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the much-rumored 12.9-inch iPad is being delayed by Apple because of high demand for the new iPhone 6 Plus.
October 9, 2014 at 08:01AM
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