An Adult’s Guide To Snapchat
Welcome to Snapchat. You may not like it, but at least now you’ll understand it. Promise.

August 7, 2015 at 02:15PM
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The Days of Squinting at Laptops in the Sun Are Almost Over
Humanity has landed a probe on a comet traveling 80,000 mph and flown past a dwarf planet three billion miles away.  So why can’t we make a damn laptop screen that lets you work outside in the sun?

August 7, 2015 at 01:11PM
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Artists Will Save Music Quality From The Tyranny Of The Stream
Some artists are scared of the streaming-dominated future, where pays yield just pennies and quality is squashed. Now they’re banding together to reclaim their art from Silicon Valley.

August 7, 2015 at 01:11PM
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A Ridiculously Fast Radial Engine, Built From LEGO, That Runs On Compressed Air
Raul Oaida built this prototype for the Super Awesome Micro Project back in 2013. It has 64 cylinders and makes an incredible racket.

August 7, 2015 at 12:48PM
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A Gorgeous New Weather Model of the World
NOAA’s weatherView animates real-time wind and shows city lights at night. Staring into this thing is the perfect way to escape the blistering summer heat.

August 7, 2015 at 12:04PM
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Apple’s Fitness Guru Opens Up About the Watch
In Jay Blahnik’s first extended interview since Apple hired him to help launch the Watch, the company’s director of fitness for health technologies insists activity tracking is overemphasized, elite athletes have a sitting problem, and the real breakthrough apps for the device will probably be created outside of Cupertino.

August 7, 2015 at 12:04PM
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What’s The Difference Between Flow And Opacity In Photoshop?
The main problem with Photoshop is that it’s so robust that even rubes like us can start adding human arms to birds without really knowing what half the buttons do.

August 7, 2015 at 11:37AM
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Teaching Machines to Understand Us
A reincarnation of one of the oldest ideas in artificial intelligence could finally make it possible to truly converse with our computers. And Facebook has a chance to make it happen first.

August 7, 2015 at 08:19AM
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“PING SUSP PHONE”—An Oakland shooting reveals how cops snoop on cell phones
An Oakland shooting reveals how cops snoop on cell phones. And the undercover operation is going very, very wrong for local and federal authorities.

August 7, 2015 at 06:14AM
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Video Killed the Pulpit Star
The great irony of video sermons is that, in an effort to spread the magnetism and charisma of a single gifted pastor, churches sacrifice the spontaneity inherent in the house of worship itself, its potential for charisma and collective electricity and the inexplicable currents of faith running between a pastor and his ardent followers.

August 6, 2015 at 10:58PM
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