Announced a year ago , BitTorrent’s charmingly-named Bleep P2P chat app is finally live, for all your secretive anti-governmental murmurings. Read more…
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BitTorrent’s Encrypted P2P Chat Service Is Now Live
2.2 million illegal downloads in 12 hours: That’s the piracy world record the latest Game of Thrones episode set last week . Read more…
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That Major Game of Thrones Leak Led to a New World Piracy Record
It was six years ago this month that NASA shot the Kepler telescope to the heavens on a galactic, planet-finding mission. Today, the space agency released this graphic that could also be Kepler’s mic-dropping resume. Read more…
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NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovered 1,000 Planets In Its Quest to Find Life
Back in 2013 , the FAA saw sense, and ruled that passengers can use their electronic fondleslabs during takeoff and landing. And, shortly after, the Association of Flight Attendants sued, claiming the FAA had overstepped its bounds. An appeals court just ruled against the AFA, meaning takeoff Candy Crush is here to stay. Read more…
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Appeals Court Rules That Your Electronics Can Stay Turned On In Flight
Spider silk is one of the world’s strongest natural materials . Graphene is a super material with many amazing uses . So, oddly, scientists decided to combine the two by spraying spiders with the carbon-based wonder material—and the results were surprisingly impressive. Read more…
Ubiquitous in many classrooms since the 19th century, chalk and chalkboards are familiar to most of us. White, powdery and prone to sticking to those surfaces where it is put (and just as easy to wipe away), chalk and its accompanying board are excellent instructional aids. Notably, however, most chalk today isn’t technically chalk at all, but gypsum. Read more…
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Blackboard Chalk Isn’t Really Chalk at All
This might look unlike most cockroaches you’ve ever seen—but that’s because it was probably quite a lot more aggressive than any you’ve seen, too. It had to be, because, it likely survived by hunting (admittedly quite small) prey, some 100 million years ago. Read more…
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This Mean Predatory Cockroach Was Caught in Amber 100 Million Years Ago
An eReader lets travelers bring thousands of books with them on their journeys, but what if each of those stories was customized to wherever they happened to be at the moment? Read more…
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GPS eReader Lets the Book Take Place Wherever the Reader Is Located
You’ve heard that Microsoft is trying to build the holodeck, yes? With a visor called Hololens you wear on your head? It turns out Hololens is a full Windows 10 computer, and using it looks totally awesome. Read more…
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Windows 10 with Holograms Looks Freaking Awesome
In winter, ice encroaches on Lake Michigan. In summer, sediment and algal blooms from runoff cloud the waters. But on a perfect day earlier this month, the ice had melted to reveal waters so clear, you could see decades-old shipwrecks lying at the bottom of the lake . Read more…
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Old Shipwrecks Are Reappearing In Lake Michigan’s Unusually Clear Water