Thank you science. Not only for giving order to this wild world but also looking damn good while you’re doing it. Here’s stunning microscopic footage of the growth of silver and lead that’s generated during metal displacement. Seeing the contrast be…
Lees meerAfter over a thousand Silicon Valley engineers pledged never to help build a Muslim registry, Buzzfeed News asked the tech giants themselves about their stance. Google, Apple and Uber told the publication that no, they won't support the dev…
Lees meerAs we move towards eventually annotating the entire internet for truthiness, Washington Post reporter, Philip Bump, has created a Chrome Extension to fact check our President Elect’s notoriously dodgy tweets.Read more...
Lees meerUber just announced its self-driving cars are available on San Francisco streets, but they're already caught up in controversy. That's because California regulators insist it needs a permit for testing, while Uber -- true to its extralegal …
Lees meerAPPresident Obama just wrapped up a much anticipated press conference, where he mostly answered questions about Russia hacking the election. Did the commander-in-chief announce a superheroic effort to bring Putin to justice and find a way to re-do t…
Lees meerWatching Sam Favret ski through Mer de Glace makes me think that there probably aren’t too many places in the world that are more fun to ski than that beautiful valley glacier in the Mont-Blanc massif in the French Alps. There are all these narrow p…
Lees meerComcast has been very careful to call its X1 setup a "platform" and not simply a cable box, and now it's licensing the tech for use on an internet TV service. Canadian provider Rogers will roll out IPTV to its gigabit internet customers in …
Lees meerThe billionaire’s money stopped showing up. Senior executives resigned left and right. Suppliers said they weren’t getting paid. You have no idea what a mess things are behind the scenes at the mysterious car startup Faraday Future.Read more...
Lees meerScientists have uncovered 2 billion-year-old water in an Ontario mine. (Image: University of Toronto)Canadian Geoscientists have uncovered water that dates back a whopping two billion years. It’s the oldest water ever discovered on Earth, and it cou…
Lees meerEven the most maneuverable aircraft we’ve designed is no match for the agility of a bird. Mother Nature has all but perfected flight, so why are we wasting our time re-inventing the wheel? As researchers at Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale…
Lees meerNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, left, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right. (Image: AP)A small deer that was at the center of a political tussle between New York State and New York City has died of stress after it was given a stay of execution.…
Lees meerWe've seen plays livestreamed to movie theaters and homes before, but what Woody Harrelson has planned for January 19th is a little different. His Lost in London Live movie will be streamed in movie theaters as it is shot, across 14 locatio…
Lees meerRogue One is billed as a standalone Star Wars movie, but it’s far more entrenched in the story of the saga than many of us had thought. That’s not just in terms of its setting, though—it’s because it’s jam-packed with references and hints to the Sta…
Lees meerRussian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo: Getty) The Federal Bureau of Investigation is supporting a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in United States elections, according to a Washington Post report quoting anonymous US officials.Read more...
Lees meerPresident-elect Donald Trump is an active Twitter user and has over 17.4 million followers. Those are facts. The contents of his tweets usually aren't. Or they aren't whole truths. As a way of fact checking our nation's next leader's online…
Lees meerFacebookWe finally know exactly how Facebook’s Internet beaming drone that CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to use to cure poverty (seriously) crashed landed, prompting an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.Read more...
Lees meerIf it’s not made of gold, furniture recovered from the Titanic, or extraterrestrial materials salvaged from a meteor, you’ll need one heck of a gimmick to convince people to spend $30,000 on coffee table. And that’s probably why Siren Design Studios…
Lees meerAT&T and Verizon have pointed words for the FCC. In early December, FCC chief of wireless telecommunication Jon Wilkins sent separate letters to AT&T and Verizon warning that their zero-rating deals appeared to violate net neutralit…
Lees meerDwarf minke whales have been identified as a possible source of the strange sounds. (Image: Oregon State University)During exploratory missions to the Mariana Trench in 2014 and 2015, scientists recorded mysterious sounds they dubbed the “Western Pa…
Lees meerWhen it comes to handing malicious hackers' intimate details about our lives, right now Yahoo is leading the pack as one of the worst threats to privacy in recent history. Yet there's one thing that has Yahoo beat in both the amount and se…
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