An international team of researchers say they’ve found fossils dating back to at least 3.77 billion years ago, making them the oldest fossils ever found on our planet. The discovery, though sure to attract scrutiny, has implications for our understanding of how life got started on Earth—and how it may have emerged… Read more…
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Scientists Claim to Have Found Our Planet’s Oldest Fossils
We’ve long known that the expiration date on groceries is a mess of different terms that mean absolutely nothing . Now, the Food Marketing Institute and Grocery Manufacturers Association have put together a plan that simplifies the label you’ll see on food. Read more…
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Groceries Will Soon Have Practical, Standardized Expiration Dates
These days, most airlines charge you to check a bag. If you have more space than you need in that bag, you might be able to earn extra cash. Airmule is a free app that connects travelers with TSA-approved shipping partners to send stuff overseas. Read more…
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Airmule Pays You to Let TSA-Certified Shippers Use Your Luggage Space
In what archaeologists are calling the “find of a lifetime, ” a horde of Late Bronze Age weapons has been discovered at a Scottish construction site. Among the items found is a gold-decorated spearhead, and a 3, 000-year-old bronze sword in remarkably good condition. Read more…
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This 3,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Sword Is Absolutely Incredible
Imagine a near future when detectives looking for evidence in a murder investigation could slap on a pair of rubber gloves that would light up when the cop touched a certain chemicals. MIT scientists just created an early version of this technology , and it looks super cool. Read more…
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These Crazy ‘Living’ Gloves Glow When You Touch Certain Chemicals
You may have just gotten used to HDMI 2.0, but HDMI 2.1 is already on its way, and it has all kinds of awesome new features. Here’s what you need to know about the substantial update. Read more…
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Everything You Need to Know About HDMI 2.1
After the initial outrage of Apple removing the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 died down, users not wanting to go wireless soon realized that using the phone’s Lightning port meant they could no longer charge while listening to music. Pioneer’s new Rayz Plus earbuds include a simple solution to that problem, but… Read more…
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Pioneer’s New Lightning Earbuds Solve an Annoying iPhone Problem
It’s been awhile since we’ve seen a good Altoids tin project, but over on Hackmypi, they’ve got a guide from stuffing the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero and a touch screen into a tin. Read more…
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Cram a Raspberry Zero and Screen Into an Altoids Tin for a Portable Micro Computer
Polaroids are great, but if you want to make your own weird version, Hackaday user Muth has a guide that links up a Raspberry Pi and camera to a thermal printer. Read more…
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Build Your Own Polaroid Style Printing Camera With a Raspberry Pi and Thermal Printer
When Disney got control of Star Wars , it announced that pretty much everything that wasn’t a TV show or movie was no longer canon. That swept away a long tradition of considering almost everything produced in this universe as connected and part of the same universe. But as the new canon has developed, not everything… Read more…
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Everything Star Wars Has Reintroduced From the Old Expanded Universe