Most of our devices run (not for long enough) on lithium ion batteries. But there could be a new, old kid on the block—in the shape of a solid-state battery that can hold twice the charge as li-on. Read more…
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Cheap Solid-State Batteries That Last Twice as Long as Li-On Are Coming
Way back in 1931, Albert Einstein visited the U.S. for three months. Inspired by meetings with Edwin Hubble, he began thinking about the Universe differently, writing a paper in four days to get down his thoughts—and now, those first scribblings have been translated into English for the first time . Read more…
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A Forgotten Einstein Model of the Universe Describes the Big Crunch
If you’ve ever brewed beer commercially in the United States, chances are you’re familiar with a one Kent “Battle” Martin. Because as far as brewers are concerned, he is the Alpha and the Omega of beer labels— without his approval, you’re effectively screwed . Read more…
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Every Beer Label In the Country Is Cleared By Just One Guy
Flexible touch screens have been “just round the corner” for some time now. Heck, Samsung showed off a flexible screen at CES in January 2013. Sadly, it was just a prototype. The truth is that flexible displays just haven’t been durable enough for mass production. Until now. Read more…
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This New Technology Will Finally Bring Flexible Displays To Market
The US and Asia will soon be connected by a trans-Pacific cable network that will carry data at — hold your breath — 60 terabits per second. Read more…
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Google Funds An Undersea Cable to Connect the US to Asia at 60 Tbps
I’m still holding out hope for light sabers in the future but with our world’s technological limitations and silly allocation of resources, the most beautiful deadly sword-type weapon we can create without lasers might be this mashup of a lightsaber and katana made by Man At Arms: Reforged. Read more…
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A lightsaber katana is the closest we’ll get to Star Wars in real life
For more than a year, Intel’s 14-nanometer Broadwell chip, the successor to its Haswell microarchitecture, has been consistently delayed , due in part to early-stage manufacturing snafus. But today Intel gave a glimpse of this incredibly tiny powerhouse, and the computing future it will introduce in its wake. Read more…
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Intel’s Broadwell Chips Will Make Full-Fledged PCs as Tiny as Tablets
It began rather quietly as a underground fire at a dump in Canada’s remote northern reaches. Then in May, the fire “erupted, ” spewing forth flames and toxic fumes over the city of Iqaluit. Faced with a football field-sized smoldering dump fire, this week the city council finally scrounged up the $2.2 million to put it out. How the hell does a dump fire spontaneously ignite—and why is it so expensive to put out? Read more…
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A "Dumpcano" of Trash Erupted in the Arctic and Won’t Stop Burning
You would think that, if you take out all the jokes and leave just the plot in American sitcoms, you would end up with something that is not funny at all. And you would be completely right—although the edits of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm still had some solid funny moments. Read more…
In 1994, there were just a few thousand websites on the internet. HTML was still new, and the concept of web publishing was still embryonic. It was the year that Microsoft launched its own website—and today, to celebrate its 20th anniversary on the web, it dug it up and put it back online . Read more…
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Microsoft’s First Website From 1994 Looks Delightfully Ancient Today