When a 17-foot tall wooden sculpture was installed in the FBI’s Miami field office in 2015, the government thought it was getting a great deal. The General Services Administration (GSA) commissioned the work and estimated that it was “likely worth more than the $750, 000 the government paid.” But it’s currently sitting… Read more…
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Over a Dozen FBI Agents Hospitalized After Million Dollar Sculpture Makes Them Sick
You can’t keep Hayao Miyazaki away from what he loves. The celebrated anime director announced during a television special that he wants to come out of retirement to turn his 20-year pet project into a full-length animated feature. Read more…
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Hayao Miyazaki is Stepping Out of Retirement for One Final Film
The next iPhone will reportedly have a beautiful OLED display. Sharp executive Tai Jeng-wu essentially confirmed the next iPhone’s hardware upgrade in a recent trip to his alma mater, Tatung University in Taiwan, according to Japan’s Nikkei Asian Review . Read more…
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The Next iPhone Will Probably Have a Beautiful, Curved OLED Display
The MacBook Air is likely dead. Despite being Apple’s most popular current computer, used by programmers, bloggers, and coffee shop patrons everywhere, the MacBook Air appears to have been put to pasture. It’s never going to get a super high resolution Retina display or a super thin bezel. Instead according to Tim Cook, MacBook Air fans should go with the tiny MacBook Apple announced last year. Read more…
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RIP MacBook Air?
On Sunday, explosives experts were dispatched to Folly Island, South Carolina, after a resident found what appeared to be at least a dozen Civil War cannonballs uncovered by Hurricane Matthew. Read more…
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Hurricane Matthew Unearths 150-Year-Old Civil War Artillery in South Carolina
Fiber-based internet service is great (ask any jealous New Yorker not eligible for FiOS) but laying fiber cable costs tens of thousands of dollars per mile. Infrastructure projects to bring it to every household in a given area so expensive, even Google can’t foot the bill . So AT&T decided to use stuff most places had already to piggyback a wi-fi signal. Read more…
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AT&T Wants to Blanket the Nation With Gigabit Wi-Fi From Utility Poles
Marine archaeologists have found the partial remains of a 2, 000-year-old skeleton while conducting an excavation at the Antikythera shipwreck, the famous site that yielded the freakishly-advanced Antikythera Mechanism. Incredibly, the ancient remains could still contain traces of DNA. Read more…
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Ancient Skeleton Uncovered at the Antikythera Shipwreck
This weekend’s New York Times op-ed about the ageism people over 50 face in the workplace includes a charming anecdote via JK Scheinberg, the esteemed Apple engineer who got Mac OS running on Intel processors. Read more…
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Legendary Apple Engineer Gets Rejected For Genius Bar Job
Marcel Lazar, better known as Guccifer, the hacker who terrorized politicians in 2013, pled guilty to various computer crimes in May. Today, he was sentenced to 52 months in prison. Read more…
If you’ve been using Dropbox for over four years and you haven’t changed your password since then, then two things are true. One, you haven’t been reading Lifehacker very long . More importantly, two: Dropbox is about to make you change it. Read more…
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Dropbox Will Make You Change Your Password If You Haven’t Since 2012