Chances are, when you’re listening to Pandora on your stereo, you just plug in your phone and start playing. However, if you have Pandora One, you get significantly higher quality music if you use your computer instead. Read more…
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Stream Pandora One from Your PC Instead of Your Phone for Quality
Take heed, because there’s a lot of bad stuff out there on the internet today. But there’s one thing that’s very good and useful: it’s Gmail, and today your favorite email service is celebrating its tenth birthday. Read more…
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Gmail Is 10 Years Old Today
A man in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania armed himself with weapons, threatened police, and barricaded himself inside his apartment. Luckily, a police robot was there to stand on the firing line. Read more…
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A Man Got into a Firefight with a Robot in Pennsylvania
Airbnb announced today that it will begin charging San Francisco’s 14 percent hotel tax on reservations in the city, starting this summer. The taxes will be paid by guests. Last week, the company announced a different partnership in Portland, Oregon, where Airbnb itself will pay some city taxes. Read more…
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Airbnb announced today that it will begin charging San Francisco’s 14 percent hotel tax on reservati
You probably don’t realize it, but hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of goods pass through airports every day inside of passengers’ baggage. Well, a ring of baggage handlers at LAX certainly realized it. Police say they’ve been stealing thousands of dollars worth of goods right out of people’s suitcases for months. Read more…
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Ring of Thieves Pulls Off Huge Luggage Heist At LAX
Of the many schemes to make the government more efficient, this is probably the only one that involves typography. A middle schooler in Pittsburgh has calculated that by simply switching the typeface used in government documents from Times New Roman to Garamond, it would save taxpayers $400 million in ink. Read more…
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The US Government Would Save $400 Million If It Just Switched Typefaces
At 2, 197 meters (7, 208 feet) the Krubera cave is the deepest on Earth. Located in the Arabika Massif, of the Western Caucasus in Abkhazia, Georgia, it extends for 13, 432 kilometers (8, 346 miles.) I would love to get inside, but I know the fear would paralyze me. I love to go through its complete (so far) map, though. Read more…
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The complete map to Earth’s deepest cave—7,208 feet deep, 8 miles long
Rosetta, the comet-exploring spacecraft, has finally gotten within sight of the comet it’s been traveling towards for the first time since waking up from its 2-year long slumber through deep space — and it sent back the pictures to prove it. Read more…
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Rosetta Just Caught Its First Glimpse of Its Destination Comet
After years of sci-fi-inspired fantasies about the technique, a team of doctors in Pittsburgh are finally ready to start testing out a procedure that involves putting patients in a state of “suspended animation” while they repair their injuries. Put bluntly, they’re going to kill people and bring them back to life. Read more…
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Doctors Are About to Start Human Trials for Suspended Animation
More than 160 years ago, paleontologists found a partial fossil of a 70-million-year-old giant sea turtle, the only known example of its particular species. This week, they found the other half. Read more…
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Both Halves Of A Giant Sea Turtle Fossil Found 160 Years Apart