BREAKING: SpaceX finally sticks a rocket landing
In its latest test of launching and landing rockets, the space exploration startup has finally successfully nailed a round trip for its Falcon 9 rocket. The success comes after numerous failed attempts for its predecessors.
December 21, 2015 at 07:52PM
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Your Smartphone Camera Should Suck. Here’s Why It Doesn’t
There was a time, not too long ago, when smartphone cameras sucked. They took genuinely bad photos that were underexposed or overexposed or grainy or … well, you remember. And if you don’t, consider yourself lucky. It’s taken a few years, but nowadays people take a great camera for granted. How did this happen?
December 21, 2015 at 06:49PM
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Nursing Home Workers Share Explicit Photos of Residents on Snapchat
A ProPublica review found 35 cases since 2012 in which nursing home or assisted living workers surreptitiously shared photos or videos of residents on social media. At least 16 cases involved Snapchat.
December 21, 2015 at 05:50PM
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The magic that makes Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlists so damn good
Automated music recommendations are hardly new, but Spotify seems to have identified the ingredients of a personalized playlist that feels fresh and familiar at the same time.
December 21, 2015 at 03:01PM
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This Machine Is A Dirt Elevator For Carrots
The Dewulf GKIIISE falls into the category of “really big, extremely specialized machines” and can pluck three whole rows of carrots out of the ground without harming them.
December 21, 2015 at 02:49PM
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The Primitive Streetlights That Predicted Electronic Music in 1899
They were uncomfortably bright and harsh compared to the incandescent lightbulbs that would soon enough replace them—in the US they were often housed atop very tall “moonlight towers”—but arc lamps had another undesirable side effect: noise.
December 21, 2015 at 12:55PM
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Database leak exposes 3.3 million Hello Kitty fans
A database for sanriotown.com, the official online community for Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters, has been discovered online by researcher Chris Vickery.
December 21, 2015 at 11:44AM
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As Pot-Growing Expands, Power Demands Tax U.S. Electricity Grids
Without design standards or efficient equipment, the facilities in the 23 states where marijuana is legal are responsible for greenhouse-gas emissions almost equal to those of every car, home and business in New Hampshire.
December 21, 2015 at 11:44AM
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How the most expensive structure in the world was built
We should not take the apparent success of the ISS for granted or ever imagine space travel to be as easy as it looks. And when you investigate the story of how we ended up with a giant orbiting laboratory, circling the planet every 90 minutes, it is remarkable the ISS was ever built at all.
December 21, 2015 at 11:02AM
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The Year We Started Buying Phones Like We Buy Cars
The key difference between how people bought phones then and now is consumers know what a phone really costs.
December 21, 2015 at 10:35AM
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