The Teen Who Wants To Build A Safer Gun
Every 30 minutes, a child is injured or killed by a firearm in the United States. That’s why 18 year-old inventor, Kai Kloepfer, developed a handgun with a built-in fingerprint reader that only fires when the owner is holding it. But is it enough to help change America’s gun culture?
April 17, 2015 at 10:35AM
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Is Periscope a new frontier for TV piracy?
Because clearly the first thing people decided to use Periscope or Meerkat for — actually, the second thing — was to watch live streams of TV that they hadn’t paid for.
April 17, 2015 at 08:21AM
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Hacking Our Cells to Produce Solar Power Could Make Humans Heal Faster
Much like a gas-powered car, the human body relies on carbon-based fuels for energy. But for automobile engines and our cellular engines alike, burning carbon has intrinsic inefficiencies.
April 17, 2015 at 02:51AM
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Should every school class be a computer coding class?
Coding, coding everywhere, as the some of the youngest schoolchildren become pioneers of computer science.
April 17, 2015 at 01:51AM
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Square’s Jack Dorsey Puts It All Together
The Square CEO and Twitter founder explains how his company’s recent spate of initiatives fit together in the big picture.
April 17, 2015 at 12:51AM
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MIT develops wireless trackpad for your thumbnail
Called NailO, the prototype trackpad is similar to the stick-on nails sometimes used as a fashion accessory. It attaches to the user’s thumb and can be controlled by running a finger over its surface.
April 16, 2015 at 09:12PM
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IKEA Just Made It Crazy Easy To Add Wireless Charging To Your Furniture
Slowly but surely, IKEA’s getting into the electronics business. The Swedish furniture giant will start selling wirelessly charging furniture this spring. Don’t want new furniture? No sweat. IKEA makes it incredibly easy to install its new inductive charging device in any piece of furniture.
April 16, 2015 at 07:26PM
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‘Geo-inference’ can reveal your location in all mainstream browsers
A “geo-inference attack” allows virtually anyone with a website — even if they don’t have your permission — to narrow down a person’s country, city, and neighborhood by measuring the timing of browser cache queries related to increasingly ubiquitous geo-location services like Google and Craigslist.
April 16, 2015 at 07:26PM
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Is Slack Really Worth $2.8 Billion? A Conversation With Stewart Butterfield
“I think it would be almost imprudent for me not to accept $160 million bucks for 5-ish percent of the company when it’s offered on favorable terms.”
April 16, 2015 at 06:21PM
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X-47B Demonstrates Unmanned Aerial Refueling For The First Time
The Navy’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle demonstrator has added yet another huge feat to its long list of incredible accomplishments, which includes operating from an aircraft carrier. This time, it has demonstrated autonomous aerial refueling, plugging into a aerial refueling basket behind an Omega Air KC-707.
April 16, 2015 at 05:01PM
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