Given that people camped out in line for a chance to pay a deposit on the Model 3, a car they won’t see for at least a year, it’s no surprise that the pre-order numbers are big. But 276, 000 pre-orders in 72 hours is still a shockingly high number. Read more…
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Tesla’s Model 3 Preorder Numbers Are Way Bigger Than Anyone Expected
Since 1999, NASA’s Terra spacecraft has been capturing amazing images of thermal emissions and radiation across the surface of the planet for Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Now, those images have been made publicly available. Read more…
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NASA’s Made 2.95 Million Amazing Images of Earth’s Thermal Emissions Public
One of the best new features of the Raspberry Pi 3 is its on-board Bluetooth , but while the software needed to get it working is easy to install, it might be a bit baffling to use. Element14 has a guide to working with Bluetooth from Raspbian. Read more…
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Everything You Need to Set Up Bluetooth on the Raspberry Pi 3
Using stem cells, Japanese scientists have grown artificial skin that contains sweat glands and hair follicles. These highly realistic skin patches could eventually be used to treat burn victims and replace animals in the testing of chemicals. Read more…
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Super Realistic Lab-Grown Skin Even Sprouts Hair
Today’s April Fool’s Day. Which means you have two choices: you can either bemoan the fact that the day is now devoted to competitive corporate silliness and the word “prank” has become meaningless, or you can make fun of those very pranks with us. Join me as we ruin everyone’s fun with our annual prank spoiler. Read more…
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Your 2016 April Fool’s Day Prank Spoiler
Whisky. Wine. Vodka. Coffee. Olives. Sugar. Milk. Parmesan. Salmon. The list of counterfeit foods and drinks to be wary of is long—and growing. Read more…
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The Largest Food Sting Ever Snagged a Boatload of Fake Booze
Wood is a great material because it’s cheap, renewable, and versatile. But this crazy transparent wood that scientists in Sweden brewed up is nuts. It could replace glass for some seriously eye-catching architecture, and even be used in cheap solar panels or windows. Read more…
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Transparent Wood Could Replace Glass, Become Coolest Building Material Ever
Keeping the number of power cords dangling off your desk to a minimum usually means settling for a smaller capacity backup drive that draws all the power it needs from a single USB cable. But Seagate’s new Innov8 drive packs 8TB of storage into an external closure that doesn’t need to draw power from an outlet. Read more…
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First USB-Powered 8TB Drive Is as Portable as a Flash Drive
Do you know where chocolate comes from? Apparently, not from the checkout line at grocery stores! How to Make Everything shows how to make chocolate from scratch, from the fruit of the cacao tree to the fermentation to the sun drying process to making sugar and cocoa butter to the grinding and tempering and molding of the chocolate bar. There are so many steps, it’s a wonder how we ever figured it out. Read more…
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How to Make Chocolate from the Fruit to the Candy Bar
Toonz, the software used to create Studio Ghibli films like Spirited Away and TV shows like Steven Universe and Futurama, is now OpenToonz. It’s open source and free for any budding animator to download and use. Read more…
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OpenToonz, the 2D Animation Software Used by Studio Ghibli, Is Now Free