How to take a vacation when you’re addicted to technology
Ever since the advent of the smartphone age, we have agonized over how to take vacations that allow us to get away from “the monster that is consuming us.” But we need our smartphones on vacation; they have replaced our guidebooks and our cameras. They provide directions in strange places. They give us Yelp and TripAdvisor reviews to steer us away from tourist traps and terrible restaurants.

May 19, 2015 at 07:27AM
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Want to Build a NASA Rocket? Agency Goes Public with Source Code
You no longer have to be a rocket scientist to access more than 1,000 cutting-edge program tools from NASA.

May 19, 2015 at 06:27AM
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How The Soviet Union Tracked People With “Spy Dust”
The US started hearing about a substance that could be used to track the movements of any person who touches, or walks across, a contaminated surface. in 1963. It wasn’t until 1984 that they got a sample of the stuff.

May 19, 2015 at 06:27AM
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How a Hand-Cranked Radio Battled AIDS in Africa
A prolific inventor dreamed up everything from the self-weighing suitcase to electricity-generating shoes. But his ultimate invention was a simple device with the power to spread knowledge to the most remote corners the world.

May 19, 2015 at 04:09AM
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Google self-driving cars not crash-proof
Google on Monday said that even self-driving cars that can sense and react faster than humans still wind up in accidents.

May 18, 2015 at 11:30PM
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The Beginning Of The End For Terrible Wi-Fi On Planes
Internet on the plane doesn’t feel magical anymore, just slow and expensive. That could soon change.

May 18, 2015 at 08:03PM
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Blueprint For A Better Human Body
People who wear and design prosthetics are rethinking the form of our species

May 18, 2015 at 03:29PM
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How The Netherlands Stopped The Wind
You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Netherlands, and you are awesome.

May 18, 2015 at 12:05PM
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Du Vote, the tech that could make online voting safe
Democracy only truly works if citizens participate. And that means we need to vote — something a surprisingly low percentage of Americans actually do. One way to boost voter turnout: online voting. But so far, no one has figured out how to make online voting safe from hackers, malware, and other vote-manipulation techniques.

May 18, 2015 at 11:52AM
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What’s the Most ‘Cinematic’ Programming Language?
What makes for a good on-screen programming language? It should look technical, complex, and generally sort of inscrutable. Right? If the human talent is doing their best to ham it up blockbuster-style, it makes sense that whatever code gets cast should be able to follow suit.

May 18, 2015 at 09:23AM
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