The United States may be the second largest carbon emitter on the planet, but it’s got a new rival: Forest fires. Indonesia is in the midst of a devastating fire season, one that’s kicking up more greenhouse gases than the entire US economy. Read more…
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Fires in Indonesia are Emitting More Carbon Than All Americans Combined
Cutting-edge prosthesis are amazing, but they lack one very important feature: a sense of touch. Now a research team from Stanford University has developed artificial skin that can sense force exerted by objects—and then transmit those sensory signals to brain cells. Read more…
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We’re One Step Closer To Creating Artificial Skin With a Sense of Touch
This time last year, we reviewed the Hendo—a real-life hoverboard that actually levitates off the ground (as opposed to whatever this thing is.) The same company’s new and improved model looks and feels more like a skateboard—with help from Tony Hawk. The image above is just an illustration, since the real thing will be revealed later this month. But it looks rad as hell . Read more…
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Tony Hawk Helped Design a New Hoverboard, the Hendo 2.0
Laser scanning has helped England do everything from discovering new things about Stonehenge to planning better flood infrastructure . Now, the country has made the entirety of its massive trove of scans available for free—in part because of requests from everyone from researchers to Minecraft players. Read more…
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England Makes 3D Data of the Entire Country Free After Minecrafters Ask For It
Sony’s Playstation 4 does most of the TV-watching things a TV-watching box is meant to do, apart from the fact that watching Netflix using two analog sticks is a pain. Sony’s new Bluetooth universal remote should fix all that. Read more…
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A New PS4 Remote Makes the Playstation a Halfway Decent Set-Top Box
According to several reports , the ‘largest-ever technology merger’ is set to be announced later today — and it’s between Dell and storage technology firm EMC, in a deal said to be worth over $50 billion. Read more…
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Dell Reported to Announce $50 Billion ‘Biggest Deal in Tech’ Later Today
The future of drones isn’t in the skies. It’s in the ocean. That’s what the OpenROV team proved in 2012 with their wildly successful remote-controlled ocean-going drone (complete with underwater camera). And now they’re back with the Trident, a sleeker, faster model–which I took for a test swim last week at San Francisco’s Aquarium of the Bay . Read more…
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New, Ultrafast Swimming Drones Are Tiny Ocean Explorers
Paleontologists in Germany have identified the fossilized remains of a horse-like animal that dates back 48 million years. Remarkably, the fossil still contains its unborn foal and traces of soft tissue—leading scientists to call it the earliest and best-preserved specimen of its kind. Read more…
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This Incredible Fossil of an Ancient Horse Still Contains Its Unborn Foal
We called the Roku 3 the best new streaming box a while back. Now, the next generation is finally here, and it looks even better. Meet the Roku 4. Read more…
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The Beefy New Roku 4 Makes It Easy to Find 4K Content
The photos taken by Farm Security Administration photographers in the 1930s are some of the most iconic images in American history. We’re all familiar with some of the snapshots of craggy-faced farmers, but unseen photos in government archives tell a more complex story of a struggling country. Yale just released a terrific database of 170, 000 of them. Read more…
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Yale Just Released 170,000 Incredible Photos of Depression-Era America