A World Without Work
For centuries, experts have predicted that machines would make workers obsolete. That moment may finally be arriving. Could that be a good thing?

June 23, 2015 at 09:07PM
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Solar Power for Everyone
Why the rise of green energy makes utility companies nervous.

June 23, 2015 at 09:07PM
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Moonshots for Planes: NASA’s Got Out-There Concepts for Aviation Too
NASA likes wacky aviation tech. In the past, it’s tested out planes with shapeshifting, bug-resistant wings. And now six teams of intrepid aeronautical innovators have been selected to test out some even wilder aviation ideas that might transform aircraft as we know them.

June 23, 2015 at 08:07PM
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Why the Federal Government Sucks at Cybersecurity
A new report out today from the software security firm Veracode found that civilian federal agencies — those largely unconnected to the military or intelligence communities — rank dead last in fixing security problems in the software they build and buy.

June 23, 2015 at 06:56PM
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Battle Cry of New Hampshire: No Fiber,
New Hampshire’s lack of decent, inexpensive Internet service is crippling the state both socially and economically.

June 23, 2015 at 06:56PM
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8-Bit Video Shows the Moon Charon Orbiting Pluto
Not impressed by these jerky blobs? Keep in mind that these pictures were taken more than 30 million miles away from Pluto’s surface, from two different perspectives.

June 23, 2015 at 05:45PM
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The quantified sex life? Not so fast
Most of the best things about sex aren’t amenable to data collection — but that’s not stopping sex apps

June 23, 2015 at 04:41PM
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The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change Forever
Six shifts that will transform markets over the next 25 years.

June 23, 2015 at 12:39PM
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Will Tracing Ivory DNA Stem The Slaughter Of African Elephants?
The fight against the global elephant ivory trade has just added a new tool. Researchers at the University of Washington and INTERPOL, the international policing organization, have successfully used DNA taken from ivory seizures around the world to identify elephant poaching hotspots in Africa.

June 23, 2015 at 12:39PM
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A Month Without Adobe Flash Player
“I’ve spent the better part of the last month running a little experiment to see how much I would miss Adobe‘s buggy and insecure Flash Player software if I removed it from my systems altogether. Turns out, not so much.”

June 23, 2015 at 11:40AM
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