A Massive Oil Pipeline Under The Great Lakes Is Way Past Its Expiration Date
An oil company with a history of giant oil spills is ignoring a massive oil pipeline in the Great Lakes that is over 60 years old. Motherboard investigates the consequences and politics of what may well be the next great American oil spill.
August 11, 2015 at 09:01PM
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Let’s Build a New Borough
Many of the city’s problems — real estate prices, developers purchasing blocks at a time, the astronomical cost of parking a car, or even a bicycle, even shoreline erosion — are problems of space. So why not just build more space?
August 11, 2015 at 08:32PM
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Your Next Computer Should Be a Desktop
Not only do desktops offer ergonomic comfort and performance at more reasonable prices, but in our cloud-connected world, they’re once again relevant. My ability to start on a document (or photo or book or video or spreadsheet or movie) at the office, then pick right up at home, means I’m now less wedded to one laptop than ever.
August 11, 2015 at 04:25PM
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Someone At DEF CON Made a Drone That Hacks Computers
A company called Aerial Assault has turned a quadcopter into a flying hacker which scans the world below for hackable devices and vulnerable Wi-Fi ports, a type of relatively harmless computer attack called penetration testing.
August 11, 2015 at 02:02PM
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MIT Built A Robot With Human Reflexes
Researchers from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering have designed an interface that takes advantage of a human’s split-second reflexes allowing a humanoid to maintain its balance and complete tasks.
August 11, 2015 at 01:53PM
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Using iPhones As Brake Pads Is A Bad Way To Stop A Porsche, Good Way To Destroy A Bunch Of iPhones
There are a lot of legitimate uses an iPhone: making calls, Snapchat, acting like you’re texting someone at a party. A bad way to use an iPhone is to replace a Porsche 911’s brake pads with iPhones.
August 11, 2015 at 01:53PM
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How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos
The hacker ethos is wild and anarchic, indifferent to the trappings of success. Or it was, until the gentrifiers moved in.
August 11, 2015 at 12:55PM
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Everything You Should Read About Alphabet And Google
On Monday, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page announced a substantial restructuring of their benevolent tech glowcloud: Alphabet. Here’s some essential reading that spells out why Alphabet exists, how it works and the potential impacts.
August 11, 2015 at 11:53AM
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The Many Tiny Robots (And People) That Make An Amazon Fulfillment Center Work
Those little orange floor robots are built by Kiva Systems, and they’re equipped with the ability to learn so that they become more efficient the longer Amazon puts them to work.
August 11, 2015 at 10:47AM
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What Selfie Sticks Really Tell Us About Ourselves
Since the advent of front-facing cameras on cellphones, selfies have been a matter of eye-rolling and vague embarrassment even among those who take them. Now, though, it seems a line has been drawn at mounting a camera phone on a perspective-enhancing stick — as if to confine selfies’ intrusion into society to at most arm’s length.
August 11, 2015 at 10:46AM
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