What Happened When Three Tech Bros Decided To Sell Makeup
“If Snapchat and HSN had a love child,” Hush would be the result.

March 23, 2017 at 02:00PM
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Who Killed The Smart Gun?
Is the murkiness of terms preventing the smart gun from coming to reality, or is it that we just haven’t seen the tech work yet?

March 23, 2017 at 12:56PM
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How iTunes built, and then broke, my meticulous music-listening system
It’s an app that does way too much, and yet each function is so important to Apple that the company seemingly cannot imagine it doing less. And so each year it does more.

March 23, 2017 at 11:56AM
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Japanese company develops a solar cell with record-breaking 26%+ efficiency
The silicon-based cells that make up a solar panel have a theoretical efficiency limit of 29 percent, but so far that number has proven elusive. Practical efficiency rates in the low-20-percent range have been considered very good for commercial solar panels

March 22, 2017 at 05:00PM
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In Praise Of The Sony Minidisc, The Format America Forgot
The minidisc is considered by most tech journalists to have been a flop, but that was just in the United States. The product actually spent two decades on the market with over thirty different country producing minidisc devices.

March 22, 2017 at 02:27PM
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A New Scientific Technique Allows Automatic Microscope Tracking Of Small Moving Objects — With Stunning Results
Scientists are following the root system of the plant arabidopsis thaliana on a rotating plate. It may sound fairly boring, but when you see the technique in action and realize it’s potential applications, it’s so far from the case.

March 22, 2017 at 11:28AM
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Telstra’s Gigabit Class LTE Network, the work of art
“During the peak hours, Telstra’s LTE network had no issues delivering sustained data rates of over 200Mbps, and uplink of over 80Mbps.”

March 22, 2017 at 11:08AM
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You Use The Biggest Machine In The World Every Single Day
The power grid is such an inextricable apart of our lives that it’s easy to forget it’s even there.

March 22, 2017 at 09:42AM
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Why Did PCs In The Late ’80s And Early ’90s Have Physical Locks?
From around 1984 to 1994, the key/lock mechanism was a strange feature of most PCs — one that ended up being more for peace of mind than a legitimate security feature.

March 22, 2017 at 09:42AM
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Intel’s Bold Plan to Reinvent Computer Memory (and Keep It a Secret)
Intel just released a new kind of computer memory it believes will fundamentally change the way the world builds computers. But it won’t tell the world what’s inside.

March 22, 2017 at 08:34AM
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