Flying from LA to San Francisco on business is a task normally fraught with stress and rage. But today, my journey begins from a better place. Instead of the gargantuan mess that is LAX, my Uber rolls up to a tiny airport three miles to the east. I start to realize just how different my work commute will be today. Read more…
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I Flew to Work in the Uber for the Skies
Planes are giving passengers less and less leg room so it’s no surprise that quarrels break out between passengers over space. Yesterday, one such altercation got so heated that a plane was diverted to Chicago. And at the heart of the conflict? A nifty little device called the Knee Defender , which prevents seats from reclining. Read more…
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A Gadget That Stops Seats From Reclining Caused a Plane-Diverting Fight
Eight hours of sleep. Six hours of sleep. Seven hours of sleep. It seems like every year we see a study that claims that some amount of hours is better than another. The Wall Street Journal collects together a few studies that show data suggests that seven hours might be the sweet spot these days. Read more…
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Research Shows that Seven Hours of Sleep Might Be the Sweet Spot
Well, this is disconcerting. According to an announcement today from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), vials of the smallpox virus were found in a lab in Maryland that was not only unapproved to be handling the live pathogens—it was unequipped . Read more…
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Vials Full of Smallpox Were Just Found In an Unapproved Lab
Electricity bill got you down? Blame your cable box or PlayStation or printer or refrigerator or any of your smart, networked devices that have a gentle-sounding but energy-sucking “standby mode.” A new report from the International Energy Agency puts the energy from networked devices worldwide at 616 terawatt-hours. That’s more than the entire energy consumption of the United Kingdom. Read more…
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Your Cable Box Is Wasting Absurd Amounts of Energy and Money
Have you been listening to SOMETHING LOUD? If so, you might have a ringing in your ears—but what, exactly, causes it? Read more…
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What Makes Your Ears Ring?
The footprint of Manhattan’s been expanding since the 17th century, when early New Yorkers began their first project to infill its shoreline. A huge part of the island we know today is built on artificial pilings. Now, it might get its biggest expansion in years. Read more…
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A Massive New Levee Could Add Two New City Blocks To Manhattan
The Federal Trade Commission has accused T-Mobile of placing hundreds of millions of dollars of bogus charges onto its customers’ phone bills. Read more…
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FTC: T-Mobile Took Hundreds of Millions of Bogus Charges on Phone Bills
The nearest Earth-like planet is only 16 light-years away from us. It has a mass that is more than five times the mass of the Earth and it orbits a red dwarf star that has half the mass and radius of our sun. Read more…
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This Is The Most Earth-Like Planet Discovered Yet
Today, the Supreme Court has reversed the decision of the Second Circuit in ABC vs. Aereo. Translation? Aereo lost big. It’s now illegal. And that sucks. Read more…
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Aereo Down: Supreme Court Kills the Cord-Cutter’s Dream