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Cars May Not Be as Hackable as They Seem: An Automotive Engineer's Perspective
Cars will be driving themselves more often in the future. Whether that happens through advanced "driver assistance" and cruise control features or through a more complete, Google-y type of autonomy,...
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The New Urban Cemetery
A walk through a cemetery, amongst the aging steady headstones, under leafy trees, might seem like a walk back in time. Death is one of the places where tradition and superstition are incredibly...
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Twisted: The Battle to Be the World's Largest Ball of Twine
After more well-known and celebrated sites such as Wall Drug, South of the Border, and the Mystery Spot, the four giant twine balls claiming to be the “world’s largest” are arguably among the very best...
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Is 'Progress' Good for Humanity?
The stock narrative of the Industrial Revolution is one of moral and economic progress. Indeed, economic progress is cast as moral progress. The story tends to go something like this: Inventors,...
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The Built-From-Scratch Heart
Organ transplantation—removing a piece of one person and sewing it into another—is one of the weirder things that humans have figured out how to do. And our bodies don't necessarily like it....
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How Apple Introduces Big Things (Like the iPhone)
Apple events always feature high levels of industry excitement. This is the leading technology hardware company in the world, and it has launched the two defining products of the last fifteen years in...
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What Apple's New Products Say About the Future
Apple piled on new product announcements today, unveiling two larger, thinner iPhones, a new payments service, and a long-awaited watch. Apple CEO Tim Cook was giddy on stage, and for Apple fans, it...
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Are the New iPhones Too Big for Women's Hands?
When Apple releases its new iPhones later this month, consumers will decide whether they’re better than what came before. Regardless, they’ll certainly be bigger. The previous generation of iPhones,...
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I Got to Use the New Apple Watch
CUPERTINO, Calif.—It’s been quite a while since Apple unveiled a new device that made people say, “Ooh, I want to play with that.” A lot of people are going to play with the new Apple Watch, which was...
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How the Apple Watch Is Like a Car
Now that the world has seen the new Apple Watch, we can say one thing for sure: This little device incorporates many, many different inputs. It's shocking, actually. There is a little dial ("the...
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Adventures With Technology: Addition and Subtraction
Last week we wrapped up our series on Hide and Track—stories about discovering and escaping data. Together, we tracked thousands of antique newspapers, hid from exes and hunted for pot in America’s...
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Millennials Are Out-Reading Older Generations
Kids today with their selfies and their Snapchats and their love of literature. Millennials, like each generation that was young before them, tend to attract all kinds of ire from their elders for...
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Inventing the LED Lightbulb
In 1962, when he was 33, the scientist Nick Holonyak, Jr., created the first practical visible light-emitting diode. At GE, they called it "the magic one." Someone actually wrote that on the...
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Lava From Space
Late last month, the Holuhraun lava field in central Iceland spasmed with earthquakes as lava began spewing from it once again. Now two weeks into its spurt of activity, its lava flow stretches 10...
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Why Netflix Is 'Slowing Down' Its Website Today
Today is Internet Slowdown Day. You might have seen that phrase around, or noticed the little spinny wheel avatars in your Twitter feed, or the popups on your favorite sites. If you ignored them all,...
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Microsoft's Shares Are Having Their Best Run in the 21st Century
The Microsoft jokes are out in force, now that the company may buy the beloved maker of the game, Minecraft. Many laypeople don't consider Microsoft the juggernaut of the technology industry. That...
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Tech Has a Depression Problem
In 2011, a few months into starting Wahooly—a crowdfunding platform in which backers receive a share in the venture’s success—Dana Severson started to have bouts of debilitating anxiety. The company...
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Generations Are an Invention—Here's How They Came to Be
Soon, Millennials, we will be overtaken. The trend pieces have already started defining the upstarts, the next generation. As Millennials replaced Gen X, and Gen X replaced the Baby Boomers, and Baby...
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When the View From Space Is Meaningless
I have seen many space photos of particles moving through air. Volcanic eruptions, forest fires, dust storms. And now, every year around this time, a satellite image of smoke rising from the World...
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Pics or It Didn't Happen: The New Crisis of Connected Cameras
In days or weeks, when the United States again drops bombs on the Islamic State, it will commence its first war shaped and driven by networked photography—the twinned phenomena of ubiquitous,...
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