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Stealth Wear: An Anti-Drone Hoodie and Scarf
No, really, this garment might fool the infrared cameras mounted on drones. Continuing his run of fascinating art that plays with thwarting the technological tools of the surveillance state, Adam...
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'A Different, Twisted Kind of Thing You Find Funny Alone in the Dark'
From cat videos to Louis C.K.'s success selling his show directly to fans, the Internet has spawned countless new kinds of comedy and helped them flourish. PBS Off Book's latest episode looks at how...
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The Viral-Media Prof Whose Kids Got 1 Million Facebook Likes (and a Puppy)
The Cordell kids had to reach 1,000,000 Facebook likes to get a puppy. They did so in seven hours. Their dad, who studies viral media, never saw it coming. The Cordell Family "Hi World," the sign...
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London's Tube Is Getting 'Contactless' Payments. Could They Work in the U.S.?
Could public transportation help new payment technologies enter the mainstream?London Mayor Boris Johnson and The Tube (Reuters). London's transit agency, Transportation for London, announced the...
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Something Like 0.0086 Percent of the World Is Famous
Actually, even that is probably pretty high. Beyonce, who is incredibly famous. (AP) What percent of the world is famous (by some definition)? Unless you know how many famous people there are, that's a...
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Something Like 0.0086 Percent of the World Is Famous
Actually, even that is probably pretty high. Beyonce, who is incredibly famous. (AP) What percent of the world is famous (by some definition)? Unless you know how many famous people there are, that's a...
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The Secret to Losing Weight, According to My New High-Tech Fitness Monitor,...
And it's backed up with new (scary) data on American walking habits.It's been a few weeks since January 1, the day that Americans decide they need to lose a few pounds after the holiday season. I was...
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The Secret to Losing Weight, According to My New High-Tech Fitness Monitor,...
And it's backed up with new (scary) data on American walking habits.It's been a few weeks since January 1, the day that Americans decide they need to lose a few pounds after the holiday season. I was...
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What Does the Sun Sound Like?
Smooth jazz, mostly. (Kidding! It sounds like hums and zooms and tribal drums!) Robert Alexander is a data sonification specialist, which means that his job is, essentially, to convert data into...
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'Current Employers of People Who Like Racism' ... and More Actual Facebook...
The spouses of people who like Prostitutes. The mothers of Jews who like Bacon. Single women who live nearby and like getting Getting Drunk. These people are all on Facebook, and Tom Scott has found...
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'Current Employers of People Who Like Racism' ... and More Actual Facebook...
The spouses of people who like Prostitutes. The mothers of Jews who like Bacon. Single women who live nearby and like getting Getting Drunk. These people are all on Facebook, and Tom Scott has found...
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A Beautiful, Moving Story About ... Google Calendar
A loving sister, a loving brother, an ailing father. This story is older than history, and humans live it again every day of every year. The Chinese poet Su Shih could write this in the 11th century:...
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One Man's Defense of Java
I'm not that one man -- I'm the one who has been passing along various warnings about possible vulnerabilities in the Java programming language.But for the record, here's another side of the story,...
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When We Blew Up Arizona to Simulate the Moon
In the late 1960s, NASA created an offworld analogue with dynamite and fertilizer bombs outside Flagstaff, Arizona, so that astronauts could train for the Apollo missions. Thanks to a well-timed tip...
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When We Blew Up Arizona to Simulate the Moon
In the late 1960s, NASA created an offworld analogue with dynamite and fertilizer bombs outside Flagstaff, Arizona, so that astronauts could train for the Apollo missions. Thanks to a well-timed tip...
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Do Not Try to Recreate This 16th-Century German Cat Bomb at Home
It's not a good idea, no matter what the Feuer Buech says. Illustration, cat and bird with rocket packs (University of Pennsylvania).Think you're the first person to consider the offensive capabilities...
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Maybe the End of the Women-in-Combat Ban Will Also Be the End of the Little,...
Could the new rule be the end of "pink it and shrink it"? Shutterstock/Andrei Nitsievsky It's a common assumption among marketers: Want to make a tech product appealing to women? Make it small, guys,...
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The Never-Before-Told Story of the World's First Computer Art (It's a Sexy Dame)
In the late 1950s, an anonymous IBM employee made a lady from the pages of Esquire come to life on the screen of a $238 million military computer. Pin-up program running on an SD Console (Lawrence A....
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At What Age Will You Stop Using Facebook?
Will you still add me, will you still tag me, when I'm 64? Birgerking/FlickrAdults are typically grateful that social media didn't exist when they were teenagers -- that their Facebook photos and...
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New Evidence Suggests People Have Been Enjoying Chocolate in North America...
The presence of trace theobromine and caffeine in some ancient bowls indicates more than a delicious diet: It implies much greater exchange between North and Mesoamerica. Pottery bowls from the...
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