What’s better: a surgeon with eight arms, or one with a brain?
Just because robots can perform delicate operations, should they go to work on the complex web of human fascia?

July 23, 2015 at 10:00PM
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Teledildonics Patent Used To Sue Six Nascent Cybersex Companies
Patent trolls are so prolific these days that you don’t really need to be successful to draw lawsuits. Case in point, a recently formed California company called TZU Technologies is demanding cash from six different players in the “virtual sex” industry — which barely even exists.

July 23, 2015 at 10:00PM
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U.S. Border Patrol Completes Trial Run Of Body Cam Study
In a first-of-its-kind study, the nation’s largest law enforcement arm takes the next step in implementing body cameras.

July 23, 2015 at 10:00PM
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Here’s ‘Half-Life’ Running On A Smartwatch
Controlling Gordon Freeman is next to impossible, but this is still cool nonetheless.

July 23, 2015 at 08:12PM
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Are You Too Stoned To Drive?
A new app called Canary is built to help you determine if that last bong rip before hitting the road was a bad idea, legally speaking.

July 23, 2015 at 08:10PM
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Remember That Time You Got Blackout Drunk? Nope, but Google Does
If you have a terrible memory, lose things a lot, often black out from drinking or some combination thereof, Google is about to become your new savior. If you like the idea of keeping your data private, however, you may want to prepare yourself.

July 23, 2015 at 06:19PM
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Why Can’t We Be Like South Korea?
When Internet access is slow or just nonexistent in the US, we shrug our shoulders. But in that small Asian nation, lousy connections are not tolerated.

July 23, 2015 at 05:13PM
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Can Desalinization Counter California’s Drought?
The waves of the Pacific seem to taunt the thirsty landscape of California.

July 23, 2015 at 04:11PM
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How to Charge $1,000 for Absolutely Nothing
In early 2008, developer Armin Heinrich sat down at his desk to design an app for the newly released first generation iPhone. Ultimately, he settled on an idea that kept his input costs extremely low and his potential profits high: he’d develop an app that did absolutely nothing, for which the buyer would pay a disproportionately high price — the highest in the entire app store.

July 23, 2015 at 03:06PM
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Drone Rescues It’s Stranded Brother Off A Neighbor’s Roof
As Harrisen Howes, the uploader of this video puts it, “Two months ago my roommate drunkenly lost my small drone on a neighbors roof… after upgrading to a larger drone I attempted a rescue of the smaller drone using hooks I made from coat hangers. Here is the result.”

July 23, 2015 at 01:46PM
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