It doesn’t look like much, but this tattered piece of clothing found buried in an ancient Egyptian cemetery has been confirmed as the world’s oldest dress as well as the oldest woven garment known to archaeologists. Read more…
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This Threadbare Garment Is Officially the World’s Oldest Dress
For nearly two-and-a-half decades, an everyday Silicon Valley engineer has owned the domain name Tesla.com. That streak of internet glory is over. Elon Musk has grabbed it, replacing his car company’s clunkier TeslaMotors.com. Read more…
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After a 24 Year Struggle, Tesla Finally Nabbed Tesla.com From Nikola Tesla Fan
Ransomware is one of the nastiest forms of malware around: once it’s downloaded onto a computer network, it runs around encrypting all your files, before charging a Bitcoin ransom to give up the encryption key: bad if it’s your holiday photos at stake, disastrous for hospitals and patient data. Read more…
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Hospital Pays $17,000 Ransom to Reclaim Its Files
You can keep your super-tall towers: How about the physical challenge of building the world’s most slender instead? That’s what engineers have done in Brighton, UK, with the i360 tower. Read more…
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The World’s Most Slender Tower Is 13 Feet Wide But 531 Feet Tall
Sea butterflies are snails that have inverted themselves. Instead of using their flesh (via a foot) to crawl on the sea floor, they turned upside down and make their protruding bodies into “wings.” When scientists studied this unusual motion, they found the sea butterflies move exactly like fruit flies and other small insects. Read more…
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A ‘Sea Butterfly’ Swims the Same Way Insects Fly
The problem of law enforcement and encryption is mostly talked about in vague terms of “backdoors” and “a new Manhattan Project”, but here’s something concrete: a District Court Judge just ordered Apple to help the FBI access files on one of the iPhones of the San Bernardino shooters. Read more…
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Judge Orders Apple to Help the FBI Hack San Bernardino Shooter’s iPhone
Looking for new book suggestions or just curious to see if you missed out on some classics in college? Open Syllabus Project can help you on both fronts. Read more…
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Open Syllabus Project Shows the Books Students Are Assigned Most in College
R. Hurt, Caltech/JPL. Since Albert Einstein first predicted their existence a century ago, physicists have been on the hunt for gravitational waves , ripples in the fabric of spacetime. That hunt is now over. Gravitational waves exist, and we’ve found them. Read more…
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Holy Shit! Scientists Have Confirmed the Existence of Gravitational Waves
The Star Wars expanded universe is huge. Really huge. Like, you just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly huge it really is. To grasp the full extent of this hugeness, a team of data scientists used a new computer program to analyze it, revealing some unexpected things about the extended saga. Read more…
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Computer Analysis Reveals the Stunning Complexity of the Star Wars Expanded Universe
Good news for everyone who won’t be able to make it to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child : the script for the play will be on sale July 31. That’s right after the official opening of the play. And on Harry’s birthday. Read more…
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The Harry Potter Play Will Become the Eighth Harry Potter Book in July