How To Use Geothermal Energy to Heat And Cool Your Home
A short animated piece that shows you how home geothermal energy heating and cooling systems work.

July 1, 2015 at 02:23PM
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July 1, 1979: Sony’s Walkman Changes Recorded History
The journalists had never experienced anything like it, and that wasn’t necessarily a good thing.

July 1, 2015 at 02:18PM
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Worker killed in Volkswagen robot accident
A 21-year-old external contractor was installing the robot, together with a colleague, when he was struck in the chest by the robot and pressed against a metal plate. He later died of his injuries, reports Chris Bryant, the FT’s Frankfurt correspondent.

July 1, 2015 at 02:01PM
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Sources: Warner Bros. Knew That Arkham Knight PC Was A Mess For Months
You can’t buy “Batman: Arkham Knight” for the PC right now. Warner Bros. pulled it from digital and physical shelves last week, after players found that the PC version had critical performance issues. From what sources tell Kotaku, however, this shouldn’t have been a surprise for Warner Bros.

July 1, 2015 at 11:30AM
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You are free to crowdfund: Kickstarter wins its first patent case
Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter was approached by a competing platform, ArtistShare, in 2011. Just what happened next is disputed.

July 1, 2015 at 10:15AM
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Machines Sniff Out Illegal Specimens Of Wood
Illegally traded specimens of endangered species present a huge problem to investigators and customs officials all over the world. But in some cases, the illegal trade isn’t ivory or endangered animals: it’s bits of wood.

July 1, 2015 at 07:45AM
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The F-35 Can’t Beat The Plane It’s Replacing In A Dogfight: Report
We’ve heard of significant shortcomings before with the fighter jet that’s supposed to be America’s future, but this is just as bad as it gets

July 1, 2015 at 07:27AM
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Mark Zuckerberg: The future of Facebook is telepathy
The social network’s founder and CEO believes that one day, we’ll be able to share our thoughts directly — brain to brain — using technology.

July 1, 2015 at 07:27AM
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Apple Music is a Usability Nightmare
I really tried to convince myself to give it a chance, but Apple Music is just simply awful to use. Everything I would want to do would either take forever or is simply not possible.

July 1, 2015 at 06:28AM
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The World’s Biggest Keyboard App Is About To Help Decide The Future Of Emoji
Swiftkey is joining the Unicode Consortium in a move that will undoubtedly influence the evolution of one of the world’s fastest growing mediums of online expression.

July 1, 2015 at 02:03AM
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