Tech titans’ latest project: Defy death
For centuries, explorers have searched the world for the fountain of youth. Today’s billionaires believe they can create it, using technology and data.

April 5, 2015 at 02:02PM
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LHC reboot: the world’s largest particle accelerator is now active
The Large Hadron Collider is reborn — on Easter weekend, of course. After shutting it down for two years in February 2013, the world’s biggest and most powerful particle accelerator is up and running again.

April 5, 2015 at 09:35AM
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West Virginia is the latest state to ban Tesla direct sales
The bill was championed by West Virginia’s Senate president, who is an auto dealer in his home state and Kentucky.

April 4, 2015 at 02:32PM
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Chelsea Manning is tweeting from her maximum-security military prison
Chelsea Manning — currently serving a 35-year sentence for leaking government secrets at the maximum-security US Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas — was banned from using the internet as part of her sentence. She’s found a way around that.

April 4, 2015 at 01:04PM
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An AI Never Forgets (Until You Try to Teach It Something New)
Researchers are trying to beat the ‘catastrophic forgetting’ problem in digital brains.

April 4, 2015 at 05:33AM
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Periscope, Meerkat, and sports: Can fans, media live stream from the game?
Given the insane amount of money networks spend for TV broadcast rights, are sports teams even allowed live stream their own games with an app like Periscope? Can fans do the same from their seats? And what other impacts will Meerkat and Periscope have on the sports world?

April 4, 2015 at 01:45AM
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Snapchat’s Non-Vanishing Message: You Can Trust Us
A rare interview with Snapchat tech executives about a transparency report, a bug bounty program, a third-party app ban… and apologies.

April 3, 2015 at 08:18PM
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OnLive, The First Big Streaming Games Service, Is Dead
Once upon a time, OnLive was The Future. Why buy physical games, they asked, when we could have tons streamed to us instantly, whether playing on a beefy PC or wimpy smart phone? It sounded too good to be true. Turns out, it was.

April 3, 2015 at 06:48PM
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Man Outfits His Boat To Run On Solar Power
Using mostly junk parts, Jaimie Mantzel builds a custom outboard that runs off the power of the sun’s rays.

April 3, 2015 at 01:47PM
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Ancestry.com is quietly transforming itself into a medical research juggernaut
Ancestry.com’s huge advantage over services like 23andMe is its age; since it has been collecting ancestral data about its users for decades, it knows health information not just about its users, but about their great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents.

April 3, 2015 at 12:54PM
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