Audioengine HD3 Premium Powered Desktop Speakers Review: They Sound Truly Sublime
If you’re still into the idea of plugging in a pair of desktop speakers, then the Audioengine HD3 is supposedly very good.

December 22, 2016 at 08:33AM
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How to Build Your Own Mini SNES
Thanks to the magic of Raspberry Pi, emulators, and a little bit of nerdery, you can build your own mini SNES, complete with controllers, for under $100.

December 22, 2016 at 07:31AM
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The Tesla Advantage: 1.3 Billion Miles of Data
In the frantic race to roll out the first fully functional autonomous vehicle, Tesla’s mass, real-world intelligence can be invaluable.

December 21, 2016 at 02:26PM
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Why Did Obama Just Honor Bug-free Software?
You might call Margaret Hamilton the founding mother of software engineering. In fact, she coined the very term.

December 21, 2016 at 12:32PM
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Peter Thiel is almost definitely behind this mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ course
An upcoming seminar at a loosely-based UC Berkley organization will tackle the idea that science is too liberal and bad. And Peter Thiel will be the instructor.

December 21, 2016 at 11:29AM
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2016 Internet Slang: A Year in Review
Vocabulary has always been extra fluid online, but this year  —  amid the culture wars of the presidential election, the death of our dearest legends, and modern history’s most amazing display of celebrity revenge  —  it has reached Schrödinger levels.

December 21, 2016 at 09:25AM
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How Science Uncovered $80 Million of Fine Art Forgeries
When art historians, museum curators, or law enforcement officials suspect that a work of art isn’t genuine, they call Orion Analytical.

December 21, 2016 at 09:25AM
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Are We Nearing The Limits Of Technological Progress?
Are we getting closer to the singularity? Or are we nearing a plateau?

December 21, 2016 at 09:20AM
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MIT Wants to Turn Everyone Into a Farmer With Its Food Computers
Anyone can build their own food computer with MIT’s open-source agriculture project.

December 20, 2016 at 06:29PM
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Artificial intelligence is going to make it easier than ever to fake images and video
With the ability to map someone else’s face on something as ubiquitous as a YouTube video, neural networks are only going to complicate this fake news nonsense.

December 20, 2016 at 05:26PM
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