The 36-cent ‘shade ball’ that could save $250 million and keep L.A. water clean
Can 96 million balls improve water quality?

August 12, 2015 at 04:55PM
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Ferrofluid Is Fucking Beautiful
Ferrolic is an ongoing project by Zelf Koelman which puts this magnetic fluid in a small aquarium-like case. Behind the glass are electromagnets and software that allows the placement of the fluid to be edited.

August 12, 2015 at 02:08PM
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Twitter finally drops the 140-character limit from direct messages
Say whatever’s on your mind, up to 10,000 characters.

August 12, 2015 at 01:03PM
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Tinder’s Twitter ‘Meltdown’ Appears to Have Been a Planned PR Stunt
Tinder threw a very public tantrum on Twitter last night, and it’s roundly being described as a cringeworthy meltdown. But instead of being the off-the-cuff ramblings of a frustrated Tinder employee with keys to the Twitter account, it looks like the whole thing was likely a planned PR effort by the dating app.

August 12, 2015 at 10:48AM
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IBM’s Watson Can Now Help You Kick Ass In Fantasy Football
Watson is best known as the computer system that autonomously vanquished the world’s best Jeopardy players during a highly publicized competition in 2011. In the years since then, IBM has applied the system to a wide range of computing problems in industries like health care, banking, retail, education, and now — football.

August 12, 2015 at 10:27AM
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Has Tinder Really Sparked a Dating Apocalypse?
Here’s the thing: Tinder had a point, at least about the way Nancy Jo Sales portrays modern dating culture.

August 12, 2015 at 10:27AM
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How Uber Could Contribute to the Future of Spycraft
The intelligence community this month quietly released an unprecedented, unclassified five-year-roadmap charting the future of data analysis it wants commercial startups like ride-sharing firm Uber to read.

August 12, 2015 at 04:30AM
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Another Day, Another Hack: What Security News Should You Care About?
Don’t worry — a lot of security news, especially on general news sites, is generally recycled information from older publications, shallow reports without much detail, and in general not very informative.

August 11, 2015 at 10:16PM
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Pilots for a day: Inside NASA Ames’ simulated aviation labs
The goal of all the projects done at FutureFlight Central is ultimately to study how to make airports more efficient and safer. Airports can use the data from an experiment to choose whether or not to go forward with a project; NASA’s job is to provide the data.

August 11, 2015 at 10:16PM
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Eagle Takes Down Drone And Reclaims The Skies For Himself
It’s the Luddite’s dream — nature striking down invasive technology. (Don’t worry, the  eagle is okay!)

August 11, 2015 at 10:16PM
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