Thinking Outside the Square: Support for Landscape and Portrait Formats on Instagram
Today, we’re excited to announce that — in addition to square posts — you can now share photos and videos in both portrait and landscape orientation on Instagram.
August 27, 2015 at 03:47PM
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From Pony Express to Amazon Drone: The Strange History of Delivering Packages
One thing that never seems to change is that Americans want stuff shipped. And shipped fast.
August 27, 2015 at 03:24PM
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Tesla With ‘Insane Mode’ Busts Curve on Consumer Reports Ratings
Tesla Motors’ all-wheel-drive version of the battery-powered Model S, the P85D, earned a 103 out of a possible 100 in an evaluation by Consumer Reports magazine.
August 27, 2015 at 01:12PM
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Tech nerds are smart. But they can’t seem to get their heads around politics.
While nerds have taken over pop culture and technology, there’s one area they haven’t mastered: politics.
August 27, 2015 at 01:12PM
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Check Out This Amphibious Weed-Cutting Boat
At the Environment Agency of Southeast England it’s always 4:20.
August 27, 2015 at 11:44AM
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Want to Make a Diamond in Just 10 Weeks? Use a Microwave
Microwaved stones — no dirty mines or bloody conflicts — might be a girl’s next-best friend
August 27, 2015 at 09:48AM
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Man Sunbathing On Top Of A Wind Turbine Is Caught By A Drone
This is definitely not a safe thing to do, and what confounds us is how he even got up there in the first place.
August 27, 2015 at 09:15AM
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Watermark: Photographs of the California Drought
Modern California is in fact an extraordinary achievement. To make a semi-arid region not only habitable but also prosperous and abundant has required massive and sustained geo-engineering — the construction, over generations, of a complex network of reservoirs and dams, of aqueducts, tunnels, and canals, of pumping stations and treatment plants.
August 27, 2015 at 03:24AM
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Ashley Madison was working on an app called What’s Your Wife Worth
Leaked files from last week’s Ashley Madison dump reveal plans by Avid Life Media (ALM), the company behind the adultery-themed website, to launch an app that allows men to rate each other’s wives.
August 26, 2015 at 09:07PM
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The Upside Of A Downturn In Silicon Valley
Some of the most successful tech investments of all time — among them Google and Facebook — came about in Silicon Valley’s lean times. This is a paradox of invention, as well as of investing: Bad times feed good ideas, which in turn lead to good times, which breed complacency, waste and lots of bad business plans.
August 26, 2015 at 09:07PM
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