A team of Stanford scientists are making great progress in their search for a cure for sickle cell disease, and they want to start human trials as soon as 2018. They used CRISPR to fix the mutated gene that causes the illness in human stem …
Lees meerWith some of the world's biggest bike makers now dedicating time to electric models, Zero Motorcycles knows it has its work cut out. The company has spent the last 10 years refining its gas-free lineup, gradually adding more power and (more…
Lees meerIn a bid to boost its Prime Now offering in London, Amazon has teamed up with a pharmacist and a wine dealer to deliver more than 7,000 additional products in under an hour. The company announced today that customers in selected London post…
Lees meerGoogle is closing a loophole in its Safe Browsing search policy. While it already flags sites that violate its malware, phishing and other policies, bad actors can temporary halt those activities. Then, once the warnings are removed, they r…
Lees meerThe New York Times is currently tracking the state of tonight’s hellish presidential election with what appears to be a ... pressure gauge? Speedometer? SocialFlow resonance meter? ... illustrating the leading candidate’s chances at winning the Elec…
Lees meerAs news agencies called more and more states for Donald Trump Tuesday evening, Canada’s informational website on immigration and citizenship began experiencing repeated outages, presumably due to a surge in traffic. Wonder why.Read more...
Lees meerAn old promoted tweet from Verizon featuring an all-red America is making the rounds again tonight, and boy, people are losing their shit!Read more...
Lees meerOn the final day of this nightmare election, it might feel like the end of the world, but Barack Obama spoke to Buzzfeed News on Tuesday to confirm that, whatever the results, the Sun, our master, giver of all life, will once again kiss this gentle …
Lees meerFacebook has launched a new Snapchat-like app less than a year after it killed its old Snapchat-like app Slingshot, according to Recode. What's special about this one is that it was built specifically with emerging markets in mind. The new …
Lees meerBurn metal hot enough and you can do whatever the hell you want with it. Here’s a glimpse of how a coil spring, which is used in a car’s suspension, gets made. It’s interesting that even though the machines do most of the work in shaping the spi…
Lees meerGoPro announced some terrible news, and it comes as polling places are starting to close. The company just announced it is recalling about 2,500 units of its new drone—the Karma—after discovering that the units were losing power during operation. No…
Lees meerFor their high price of admission, Disneyland and Disney World offer park-wide immersion and entertainment capped off with nightly shows and seasonal fireworks. Back in 2014, they applied for patents to augment these spectaculars with drone…
Lees meerQubits, the unit of information used by quantum computers, make use of a phenomenon known as "superposition" wherein they can exist in two separate quantum states simultaneously. Theoretically, they'd enable computers to perform a variety o…
Lees meerWalgreens is suing biotech startup Theranos after the company shuttered all of its labs and wellness centers following reports about problems with its blood testing devices and labs. Walgreens was a major Theranos partner that offered some of its se…
Lees meerJust when we thought today’s historic election couldn’t get any weirder, it appears that both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are being protected by an army of dump trucks. Law enforcement say the trucks—which are loaded with sand—are forming a bar…
Lees meerMuch to our dismay, the final days of the election brought news that famed Twitter personality Donald Trump had his account confiscated as part of his staff’s last-ditch effort to maintain some degree of dignity. But you cannot maintain that which w…
Lees meerNo matter which candidate wins the election today, there are going to be people disappointed in the outcome. So why put yourself through all the stress of watching election coverage, when you can instead spend the rest of the day watching 78,175 dom…
Lees meerWikileaks founder Julian Assange released a statement about the US election on on Tuesday, defending his organization’s decision to post thousands of emails from the Democratic National Party’s senior officials during the height of the US presidenti…
Lees meerDonald Trump didn’t spend much money on get-out-the-vote efforts this year. But he did spend a shit-ton on hats. So it seems only fitting that the stage on which Trump will (hopefully) concede victory to Hillary Clinton tonight will have two Make Am…
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