When you’re learning to code, it’s best to start with small projects. This tutorial, for example, will get you started with a simple to-do list app, and it walks you through the whole process, from start to finish. Read more…
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This Start-to-Finish Tutorial Helps You Build Your First iPhone App
Following several days of continuous connectivity problems , an internet researcher is reporting that North Korea’s internet has gone dark . Whether it’s a cyber attack or a routine outage remains unclear. Read more…
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North Korea’s Internet Is Totally Screwed Right Now
California wants better batteries, which is why t he electric company Southern California Edison is planning a set of, let’s say, unconventional energy storage solutions, including huge 450-gallon ice packs. Why? It all has to do with a little-known problem with California’s wind-reliant electric grid. Read more…
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California’s Grid May Soon Store Energy in Giant Ice Packs
If you’re the type of person who likes to do things the needlessly complicated way, then come on over. Here’s how to make AA batteries entirely by hand, courtesy of YouTube’s NurdRage . Read more…
When your data is in the cloud, you’re relying on someone else to back up your stuff. If your account gets hacked or the service glitches, your data could go up in a puff of smoke. Revert.io automatically backs up your Evernote, Tumblr, and other data online. Read more…
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Revert.io Backs Up Your Evernote, Tumblr, and Other Cloud Data
Friday was a big day at the drone testing facility in Boulder City, Nevada. It was the day that the first drone authorized to fly without FAA approval would take to the air. The bright orange unmanned aircraft, Magpie, did just that—and then it crashed to the ground in an embarrassing cloud of dust two seconds later. Read more…
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First Drone Launches at FAA Test Site in Nevada, Crashes Immediately
I n case anybody still believed we were doing ok on cybersecurity, Staples just announced that malware deployed at 115 of its stores nationwide gave hackers access to some 1.16 million customers’ payment cards. Check here to see if your store was hit. Read more…
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1.16 Million Payment Cards Breached in Staples Hack
Check out the gorgeous images that photographer Steve Scalone took of my latest object of desire, a 99-cheese pizza created by pizza world champion Johnny di Francesco, of Melbourne’s famed 400 Gradi. A pizza that The Guardian says tastes fantastic: Read more…
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A pizza world champion made this 99-cheese pizza and it tastes fantastic
sciencehabit writes About 1% of the light that strikes plants is re-emitted as a faint, fluorescent glow—a measure of photosynthetic activity. Today, scientists released a map of this glow as measured by the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, a NASA satellite launched in July with the goal of mapping the net amount of carbon in the atmosphere. The map reveals that tropical rainforests near the equator are actively sucking up carbon, while the Corn Belt in the eastern United States, near the end of its growing season, is also a sink. Higher resolution fluorescence mapping could one day be used to help assess crop yields and how they respond to drought and heat in a changing climate. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
If the Sony hack has taught us anything , it’s that keeping incriminating emails in your inbox is a terrible idea. Even if you aren’t doing anything particularly bad, if someone gets into you email, everything you’ve ever said could be out in the open. Here’s how to make sure that doesn’t happen by automatically backing up and deleting everything in your Gmail account on a schedule. Read more…
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How to Automatically Back Up and Purge Your Gmail Every 30 Days