How your LED desk lamp could help you connect to the Internet.
Lighting has come a long way since Tom Edison lit his first incandescent bulb in the 1880s. LED bulbs are popping up everywhere, on planes, car headlights, in your phone. When you buy a new light bulb now, chances are it’s going to be an LED.
September 13, 2015 at 06:05PM
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A Humanoid Robot Has A Conversation With Her Human
The humanoid robot, Bina48, meets the woman she’s modeled off of. Try to tell which one is the real thing.
September 13, 2015 at 05:03PM
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Tech’s Role In Fighting Wildfires
“Burn rates” are perennially on the minds of Silicon Valley VCs and entrepreneurs. But what about the very real burn rates that ravish the surrounding California countryside, and other areas, each year?
September 13, 2015 at 05:02PM
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A New Design for Cryptography’s Black Box
In July 2013, a pair of studies set the cryptography world on fire. The studies described a powerful new method for hiding the secrets inside software programs. The method was called “indistinguishability obfuscation,” or IO. The authors touted it as a “central hub” for all of cryptography — a unified basis upon which to reconstruct familiar cryptographic tools like public keys and selectively secure signatures. Now proposals are getting closer to reality.
September 13, 2015 at 03:01PM
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A Dying Young Woman’s Hope in Cryonics and a Future
Cancer claimed Kim Suozzi at age 23, but she chose to have her brain preserved with the dream that neuroscience might one day revive her mind.
September 13, 2015 at 02:02PM
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Department of Energy Hacked Over 150 Times in Four Years
Cybersecurity experts aren’t very surprised by the news, saying that until federal agencies take steps ensure adequate security policies and procedures are implemented, these sorts of attacks will continue unabated.
September 13, 2015 at 12:04PM
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Ride Along With A Soyuz Rocket Into Orbit
On April 3, 2014, a Soyuz rocket lifted off from French Guiana carrying Sentinel-1A, an Earth-observing satellite (the first in the ambitious Copernicus program, meant to observe our planet’s environment). Two rocket cams were mounted on the side looking down, and the view they provided was incredible.
September 13, 2015 at 11:05AM
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I’m addicted to nearly 50 podcasts
“When I wake up in the morning, before I even make coffee, I put on a podcast. I listen to podcasts when I’m on the subway to work, when I walk out for lunch, when I run errands, when I clean the house and do dishes, and sometimes even as I fall asleep at night. I’m subscribed to 48 shows, and I listen to almost everything within one or two days of its release. Certainly, on an average weekday, I listen to anywhere from two to six hours of podcasts.”
September 13, 2015 at 10:02AM
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Sorry, Apple. Turns Out Designers Don’t Use iPads
Apple and Adobe hope that the new iPad will attract curious designers far and wide. Unfortunately, it seems as if 64 percent of designers don’t brainstorm with software. They do it with pen and paper.
September 13, 2015 at 08:15AM
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The Trouble With Digitizing History
The Netherlands spent seven years and $202 million to digitize huge swaths of AV archives that most people will never see. Was it worth it?
September 13, 2015 at 08:02AM
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