Weehawken 16-year-old Justin Casquejo pulled a fast one on the guards at One World Trade Center on Sunday, reaching the spire of the 1, 776-foot-tall tower around 4AM and hanging out for at least two hours. Some people’s rebellious teenage phases are just cooler than others. Read more…
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Teen Sneaks Past Sleeping Guard to Reach Top of 1 WTC
With about 6.3 million Twitter followers, UberFacts reaches millions of people with little nuggets of trivia every day. Unfortunately, many of those “fun facts” are completely wrong or misleading. Read more…
Every so often, a project slides across your screen that seems too cool to be truly feasible. But Tyler Short, the architecture student behind this incredible louvre system, says his system’s been worked out to the last mechanical detail. Someone, manufacture this thing! Read more…
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This Amazing Mechanical Shading System Makes Blinds Beautiful
They’re the perfect accent to a well-manicured backyard, but the solar-powered lights dotting your gardens and walkways are just one misstep away from being accidentally destroyed. So Ikea’s come up with the perfect solution , LED lights that you press into your lawn so that they’re flush to the ground while still providing plenty of light. Read more…
Ugh. You’re up an hour early, your body hates you for it, and even a gallon of coffee can’t get your day on track. Daylight saving sucks. But you know the worst part? It doesn’t have to be like this. Read more…
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Why Daylight Saving Time Is Pointless
A 65-foot deep shaft being dug for Los Angeles’s newest subway line is filled with buried treasure. The so-called Subway to the Sea is still nine miles from the beach, but excavation has already revealed some creatures from the ocean floor… the prehistoric ocean floor! Read more…
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Ice Age Fossils Are Being Unearthed By L.A.’s Subway Construction
John Gruber believes that iOS 7.1 should ship any day now—because the app required to stream Apple’s SXSW iTunes Festival, which starts in a week, requires the new OS. Let’s see! Read more…
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John Gruber believes that iOS 7.1 should ship any day now–because the app required to stream Apple’
When you’re working with tiny nanoparticles, you need extremely delicate tools. Like, say, tweezers that can manipulate particles 1, 000 times thinner than a human hair without physically touching them. That’s exactly what researchers at the Institute of Photonic Sciences have come up with: optical nanotweezers that use light to move tiny particles in three dimensions . It’s not sci-fi anymore. Read more…
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World’s Tiniest Tweezers Grab Nanoparticles Using Nothing But Light
Quantum computing is being hailed as the future of data processing, with promises of performing calculations thousands of times faster than modern supercomputers while consuming magnitudes less electricity. And in the span of just two years the only commercially available quantum computer, the D-Wave One , has already doubled its computational power. Kiss your law goodbye, Mr. Moore. Read more…
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The Quantum D-Wave 2 Is 3,600 Times Faster than a Super Computer
Today is Mardi Gras , and like any booze-fueled street celebration, that means tons of full-bladdered revelers seeking out a place to relieve themselves. Thankfully, technology’s here to save New Orleans from becoming a literal Urinetown . Meet AirPnP , the web app that lets you do your business in the privacy of a stranger’s home. Read more…
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AirPnP Connects Mardi Gras Partiers With Places to Pee