Silicon Valley’s ‘Startup Castle’ is looking for roommates, and the requirements are completely bonkers
Do you have a fancy college degree or a job in a STEM field? Do you have fewer than two tattoos? Do you avoid Tinder dates and songs with explicit lyrics? Do you spend more than two hours a day exercising? Then you may be qualified to live at the Startup Castle, a self-proclaimed “community of excellence” located in a 17,000-square foot mansion in Woodside, California, just minutes from Stanford’s campus.

May 13, 2015 at 06:57PM
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A New Method Of Liquid Printing Will Let You Pattern Anything Really Accurately
“Computational hydrographic printing” is allowing 3D objects to be printed with more precision by calculating the amount of “stretching” the liquid template will undergo during the dipping process.

May 13, 2015 at 06:50PM
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In A Mother’s Library, Bound In Spirit And In Print
“Over the years, I’ve gone back and forth over the merits of print versus digital books so many times, it’s as if I were in an abusive relationship with myself. But my mother’s passing and the sentimental value of her library have finally put an end to that debate in my head. It’s not that one is superior to the other. They each have their place in this modern world.”

May 13, 2015 at 02:26PM
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Bigger than Heartbleed, ‘Venom’ security vulnerability threatens most datacenters
Move over, Heartbleed. There’s a new catastrophic vulnerability in town. A security research firm is warning that a new bug could allow a hacker to take over vast portions of a datacenter — from within.

May 13, 2015 at 11:38AM
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On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech, global war on rats
For thousands of years, people have devised all manner of traps to crush, poison, smother, and electrocute rats. So far, the war has been as futile as it’s been bloody.

May 13, 2015 at 10:27AM
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Meet Lily, The Camera Drone The Follows You
Slap on a tracking device and this drone will film your next snowboarding/other extreme sports attempt in a variety of ways.

May 13, 2015 at 09:39AM
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Nepal’s Aid System Is Broken. So These Lifesavers Hacked It
Unregistered, unlicensed, and nonexistent in official terms, the Yellow House group is one of many ad hoc efforts that have cropped up to deliver aid to some of the quake’s hardest-hit areas quickly and without much fuss.

May 13, 2015 at 09:27AM
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Facebook Publishes New York Times, BuzzFeed with “Instant Articles”
The social giant has finally unveiled the terms of its “give us your content and let us run it on our app” plan, which starts today. And the terms look very good: It’s hard to imagine any publisher passing on the chance, if they get it, to collect eyeballs and dollars on Facebook’s mobile platform, which boasts 1.25 billion users.

May 13, 2015 at 07:31AM
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Warner Music Says Streaming Revenue Has Passed Downloads
Here’s another sign that the music industry has shifted from selling songs to selling subscriptions: Warner Music Group says that last quarter, streaming music revenue passed revenue from selling downloads.

May 12, 2015 at 02:08PM
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Helpful Laser Burns A Guide Into This Bread So You Eat It In The Right Order
Each bite is shaped and numbered, just in case you were thinking of shoveling the entire slice of toast into your face in one go.

May 12, 2015 at 01:38PM
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