Science Graphic of the Week: NOAA’s Highest-Res Weather Forecast Yet Is Also Its Most Beautiful
After five years of work, NOAA unveiled a new weather model, called High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR). Like its predecessor, HRRR will update every hour. But, HRRR fine tunes the forecast every 15 minutes by constantly digesting radar reports, so that the hourly update is as accurate as possible.
October 3, 2014 at 02:29PM
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Lyft Drivers Are Burning Their Pink Mustaches
Dozens of drivers furious with the company over yet another cut in pay decided they’d be leaving the company in a dramatic, and cathartic, fashion: by burning their cars’ iconic fuzzy pink mustaches in a symbolic pyre.
October 3, 2014 at 01:27PM
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The Most Hated Design Trend Is Back
Like other smartwatches, Apple’s watch is embracing skeuomorphism. But that’s okay: it needs to.
October 3, 2014 at 01:27PM
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The Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs Is Now on the Loose
It’s been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room-only crowd at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, showing that it’s possible to corrupt any USB device with insidious, undetectable malware. Nohl has held back on releasing the code he used to pull off the attack. But at least two of Nohl’s fellow researchers aren’t waiting any longer.
October 3, 2014 at 10:56AM
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Security Checks Paid as Work? Supreme Court Will Decide
Amazon.com warehouses are full of stuff people like. To cut down on theft, workers who box and ship it are required to pass through security checkpoints after their shifts, waiting in lines that can take almost 30 minutes to get through. On Oct. 8 the Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether that time counts as work.
October 3, 2014 at 10:20AM
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Apple Now Lets You Check If That Used iPhone Is Stolen Don’t become an unwitting fence for stolen iDevices.
Buying a used iPhone on eBay or Craigslist has become a little less scary now, thanks to a new Apple tool that can help budget shoppers spot stolen devices before they buy.
October 3, 2014 at 09:04AM
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Exclusive: Facebook plots first steps into healthcare
Facebook already knows who your friends are and the kind of things that grab your attention. Soon, it could also know the state of your health.
October 3, 2014 at 07:45AM
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Phone boxes turn green to charge mobiles
Many of the UK’s red telephone boxes have largely fallen into disuse. Now some are being repurposed as libraries, charging stations and medical centers.
October 3, 2014 at 07:45AM
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What Would It Take to Turn New York into a Megacity?
Something bizarre happened overnight: New York City’s population grew to the size of Shanghai’s, swelling from 8 million people to 24 million. It’s like a natural disaster, but this tidal surge is made of human needs. Here’s how we’ll rebuild the city to make room for them all.
October 3, 2014 at 06:29AM
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How the Shinkansen bullet train made Tokyo into the monster it is today
At 10am on 1 October 1964, with less than a week and a half to go before the start of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the two inaugural Hikari Super Express Shinkansen, or “bullet trains,” arrived at their destinations, Tokyo and Osaka. They were precisely on time.
October 3, 2014 at 06:29AM
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