Earlier this year, Japan launched a groundbreaking black-hole-monitoring satellite—only to lose control of it almost immediately under strange circumstances. Now, we finally can see what Hitomi did right before it died. Read more…
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This Is the Last Thing Japan’s Lost Black Hole Satellite Saw Before It Died
Your car is a big expensive machine that, over its life, will cost you a ton in maintenance. If you learn to do some of those jobs yourself , you can save a ton of cash. Replacing your brake pads, for example, is one of those jobs that sounds much harder than it is, and we’re going to walk you through it from start to finish. Read more…
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How to Change Your Car’s Brake Pads
There are a few things that make America great, and blowing shit up on the Fourth of July is one of them. So when PBS decided to digitally add stock footage of fireworks to its “live” coverage of the Capitol’s Independence Day celebration, some viewers were left unimpressed. Faking shit? Very Un-American. Read more…
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PBS Caught Faking Fireworks During ‘Live’ Fourth of July Celebration
By 2026, there’s going to be a lot less hunger worldwide—and that’s something to celebrate. The reason is not that we’re growing more food, however. Food is just getting cheaper. Read more…
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Why World Hunger Is Going to Fall to Its Lowest Levels Ever This Decade
It’s been a bad couple of days / months / lifetime for the Transport Security Administration, but there’s some good news. The much loathed government agency is going to try to make airport screening less terrible with fancy new automated security checkpoints. Read more…
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The TSA Is About to Make Airport Security Less Terrible
Where will the first Hyperloop be? So far there are plans to use the tubular transportation system to move passengers in Slovakia and freight in Switzerland . But a proposed application for the Hyperloop announced today could solve a transportation conundrum that has been challenging planners for centuries: Connecting the neighboring nations of Sweden and Finland. Read more…
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Hyperloop Connecting Helsinki and Stockholm Turns 300-Mile Trip Into 28 Minute Ride
Scientists at MIT have designed an ingenious new concept for a battery that operates on the same fundamental principal as an hourglass—it relies on gravity to generate energy. They described the device in a recent paper for Energy and Environmental Science . Read more…
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This ‘Hourglass’ Liquid Battery Runs on Gravity
We’ve seen Raspberry Pi-powered photo booths before , but Make takes it a step further by adding in a touch screen and automatic uploading to Google Photos. Read more…
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Make Your Own Easy-to-Use Touchscreen Photo Booth with a Raspberry Pi
Good news! You’ve made it to the weekend. And I know what I’ll be doing while everyone else is out grilling beneath the summer sun: playing Nintendo games on my computer thanks to a newly updated emulator. Read more…
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Remains of the Day: GameCube Emulation Just Got Way Better
If you’re looking for something interesting to watch, YouTube channel Public Domain Full Movies is full of, well, what its name implies. Classic films like A Trip to the Moon and Behind Green Lights to fun flicks like Gammera The Invincible are all here to stream, completely free, to any device. Read more…
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This YouTube Channel Is Full of Free, Public Domain Movies to Stream