E-readers get a bad rap—probably because there are a lot of illiterate assholes out there who hate reading. For the rest of us totally wicked people e-readers are amazing and Amazon’s rumored announcement of a new e-reader is a cause to celebrate. Read more…
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Leak of New Amazon E-Reader Suggests It’s Flipping Cool
After an inexplicable shift into Emergency Mode, NASA managed to partially recover its planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft. But we still don’t know what caused it to freak out in the first place. Read more…
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NASA Just Recovered Its Drifting Kepler Spacecraft
Late last week, an absolutely ginormous python was found caught under a tree that had fallen near a Malaysian construction site. Its length has been pegged at 26 feet (8 meters), which, if verified, would make it the longest snake ever captured. Read more…
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World’s Longest Snake Captured, Promptly Dies
A blood-engorged female Aedes albopictus mosquito feeding on a human host. Photo James Gathany With summer approaching, the risk of a surge in cases of the Zika virus has become a major concern for US officials, and the White House has announced that they would be redirecting money earmarked for Ebola to efforts combatting Zika. Read more…
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The White House Is Redirecting $598 Million From The Fight Against Ebola To Combat Zika
Turning a Raspberry Pi into a retro game station is easily one of the most popular Raspberry Pi projects around. If you want to make that project portable, you’ll need a screen but the most common one, the Adafruit PiTFT, requires a little effort to get it working for more advanced games. Read more…
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Everything You Need to Tweak To Get Raspberry Pi Emulators Working on a Portable Display
Who needs memory cards when you have DNA? A team of scientists has been able to store images with the life-defining molecules then retrieve them perfectly. Read more…
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Scientists Stored These Images in DNA—Then Flawlessly Retrieved Them
Do you find it easier to work with the din of a bustling coffee shop all around you, but would rather not deal with the guilt of not actually buying coffee for hours on end? A new website called Hipster Noise can simulate the sounds of a busy Starbucks, but from the lazy comfort of your home office. Read more…
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Hipster White Noise Generator Simulates Working in a Crowded Coffee Shop
As much as everyone is getting excited about Google’s cute little autonomous cars, self-driving trucks are the most obvious—and probably easiest—beneficiaries of autonomous tech. To prove this, a “platoon” of connected trucks from six brands completed a 1, 300 mile trip across Europe. Read more…
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A Convoy of Autonomous Trucks Just Drove Across Europe
Food labels are notoriously confusing—but what if they simply told you how long it might take to burn off the calories you’re about to consume? Read more…
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New Food Labels Would Tell You How Long It Takes to Burn Off Calories
The Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca has spoken out about the huge data leak it’s suffered, claiming it’s been the victim of an external hack. Read more…
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Panama Papers Are From an External Hack, Claims Mossack Fonseca