Do you own a set-top box that you love? That’s great—keep loving it! Are you interested in seeing what all the fuss is about? Then consider the new $50 Roku Streaming Stick . It’s cheap and easy and versatile, and frankly, that’s really what you should want. Read more…
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The New Roku Streaming Stick Is All You Need
Dodging firewalls and masking your IP address usually requires firing up separate—often paid-for—software or plug-ins while you’re browsing. Now, though, Opera has its own free VPN baked right into the desktop browser. Read more…
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Opera Now Has a Totally Free and Unlimited Built-In VPN
Li-on batteries gradually deteriorate as they’re repeatedly drained and recharged. But now researchers from University of California, Irvine have developed a new nano-wire battery that can survive hundreds of thousands of charging cycles. Read more…
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New Nanowire Batteries Can Be Charged More Than 100,000 Times
A team of researchers has managed to boost the amount of light an LED emits by 60 percent simply by etching its outer surface to resemble the outside of a firefly’s lantern. Read more…
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Scientists Made LEDs 60 Percent Brighter By Copying Firefly Lanterns
Forget Inbox Zero. Yesterday, the British telecomm company BT managed to forward outgoing email from its customers’ accounts to single email address. Read more…
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An ISP Forwarded Its Users’ Sent Email to a Single Inbox
Whether you’re a fan of Keurig coffee machines or not, the product delivery method known as the ‘pod’ is here to stay. In the case of Miracle-Gro’s Gro-ables, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. The pods make planting a garden almost completely idiot-proof. Unless you find using a hose a challenge. Read more…
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Keurig-Like Miracle-Gro Seed Pods Make Gardening Idiot-Proof
Over a year ago, the solar-powered airplane Solar Impulse 2 started its audacious round-the-world trip —but it became so damaged that it had to pull up short in Hawaii . Now, it’s ready to fly again. Read more…
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Solar-Powered Airplane Solar Impulse 2 to Continue Round-the-World Flight
Last week, a local Denver journalist named Stan Bush reported that Hillary Clinton’s campaign appeared to be using a hidden static noise machine to prevent reporters and other passerby from hearing the candidate’s stump speech at an outdoor fundraiser held at the private residence of Colorado’s governor, John Hickenlooper. The general allegation hung in odd kind of limbo, however, since Bush managed to record the machine’s ( inherently indiscriminate ) sound but was unable to photograph the actual device, while Clinton’s press shop ignored reporters’ attempts to confirm the machine’s existence. Meanwhile, the underlying question went unanswered: Why was Clinton using a static noise machine in the first place? Read more…
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Clinton Donor Confirms Presence of Static Noise Machine at Secretive Colorado Fundraiser
I was kind of tired of the FBI vs. Apple story, but now it has a secret collective of morally ambiguous hackers, and I’m into it again. Read more…
Several years ago, scientists calculated the properties of an exotic form of carbon—called Carbyne—and found that it promised more strength and stiffness than any other known material. Now, it’s finally been made in a stable form inside an Austrian lab. Read more…
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Scientists Finally Made Carbyne—a Material Stronger Than Graphene—That Lasts