The First Combat Submarine Was Powered By Hand Crank And Used A Keg Of Gun Powder As Ammo
It was also kind of a failure, but that doesn’t keep us from thinking it’s the coolest.

May 19, 2016 at 11:28AM
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A Wildly Surreal Short Film Scripted Entirely By A Computer Fed Sci-Fi Films
All the dialog and character action (yes, even the scene where Thomas Middleditch spits out an eyeball) were written by a computer. Sometimes its difficult to understand, but “Sunspring” is an extremely unique collaboration between man and machine.

May 19, 2016 at 09:42AM
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Behind the Biggest Bitcoin Heist in History: Inside the Implosion of Mt. Gox
Mt. Gox was once the biggest exchange for the virtual currency, but then half a billion dollars’ worth went missing. An email chain holds important clues to what happened.

May 19, 2016 at 07:39AM
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Google Patented a Sticky Car Hood That Traps Pedestrians Like Flies
Yesterday, Google was awarded a patent that proposes placing a strong adhesive on the hood of its autonomous cars. This way, pedestrians or cyclists who happen to find themselves being struck by a Googlemobile would be protected from what’s called “secondary impact.”

May 18, 2016 at 07:45PM
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A Trip Inside A Real Life Wonkavator That Travels Both Horizontally And Vertically
Leave it to the Italians to design an elevator that acts really strange.

May 18, 2016 at 05:17PM
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I Hate My IPhone
I’m mad at the way my apps shut down while in use, at the texts that don’t send, at an iTunes that doesn’t sync. I’m cranky about poky performance, with videos that sometimes take forever to download, if they do at all.

May 18, 2016 at 04:43PM
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Watch An AI Learn How To Play Super Mario By Continually Failing
Like most of us, this bot uses good ol’ trial-and-error until it, eventually, succeeds. When might that be? Well based on it’s current struggle with the first level of “Super Mario World,” this could take some time.

May 18, 2016 at 02:23PM
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Why Netflix Is Launching Fast.com, Its Own Internet Speed Test Website
Netflix’s multibillion-dollar streaming business relies entirely on high-speed Internet connections — networks which, of course, it doesn’t control. Now the company is launching a new tool to keep broadband providers honest.

May 18, 2016 at 02:10PM
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What Google Announced At Today’s I/O Keynote
Google kicked off their annual I/O developer conference with its keynote address and announced a few pretty exciting new products, including a conversational AI assistant and a challenger to Amazon’s Echo. ​Here are the highlights.

May 18, 2016 at 02:02PM
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Watch Google’s Annual I/O Keynote Live
Google’s annual I/O developer conference is happening today, and you can watch a livestream (in 360 degrees, of course) of the keynote below starting at 1 pm EST.

May 18, 2016 at 11:56AM
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