US Soccer Reveals New Logo Exclusively On Virtual Reality
The federation is hoping that this unorthodox approach will help draw more attention to its first major rebranding since 1995.

February 29, 2016 at 07:05AM
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Meet the Developer Who Made Games for Three Years While Living on the Streets
Back in 2009, Ryan Zehm found himself at a crossroads after falling victim to massive layoffs at Hewlett-Packard: Take the safe and immediately secure route with jobs he’d hate or sacrifice amenities he’d known all his life to bring himself closer to his dream of running his own game development studio.

February 29, 2016 at 05:21AM
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You wouldn’t be able to pause your video games today without Jerry Lawson
Lawson was a pioneering black engineer back when it was even harder in Silicon Valley.

February 28, 2016 at 07:09PM
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Would you buy meat from a robot butcher?
From modern farming to fast food’s made-to-order assembly lines, food production has gone industrial. Soon robot butchers and cooks may be subbed in for people.

February 28, 2016 at 07:09PM
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What I learned from my failed Patreon campaign
As a moderately successful writer, it can be easy to believe readers will pay you to do your work. The truth was much more humbling.

February 28, 2016 at 06:12PM
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Most software already has a “golden key” backdoor-it’s called auto update
It’s called an auto update. That’s right. Software updates are just another term for cryptographic single-points-of-failure.

February 28, 2016 at 05:03PM
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Linguists Not Exactly Wow About Facebook’s New Reactions
If the linguistic inconsistencies of Facebook’s new “reactions” bother you, you may in fact have a disorder called “grammar purism.” GP has no cure, but some sufferers find poetry or Winston Churchill quotes soothing.

February 28, 2016 at 02:04PM
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What It’s Really Like to Risk It All in Silicon Valley
Before Nathalie Miller decided to walk away from Instacart, she made a spreadsheet to analyze how much money she was leaving on the table. She did it anyway. Six months later, she discovered she was pregnant with her first child.

February 28, 2016 at 01:02PM
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Can Machines Write Musicals?
Computers can be programmed to do all sorts of things, but algorithms can’t create the X factor — that piece of art that resonates with us emotionally, on a human level. If a computer can write a musical, or write a storyline that moves us, then what is it that separates man from machine?

February 27, 2016 at 01:02PM
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This Guy Is Very Enthusiastic About A Calculator From The 1800s
The “Millionaire” Machine is big, heavy, and everything in between — but this guy loves it.

February 27, 2016 at 10:41AM
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