Pity the poor mapmaker assigned to the South China Sea. The hotly disputed waters in the Pacific are torn between competing claims from all the countries that surround it. China, especially, has been aggressive and sly. It’s now dumping sand onto small reefs and shoals, building whole new islands to bolster its territorial claims . Read more…
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China is Building Fake Islands to Bolster Its Claim to Disputed Waters
A product’s packaging is usually nothing but the last obstacle between you and a shiny new gadget, but often there’s as much thought that goes into the design of a cardboard box as the device inside. For instance, LG put a remarkable amount of design effort into the box its OLED TVs ship in, and most consumers will never even notice. Read more…
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LG’s Glueless Packaging Is Almost as Impressive as the OLED TV Inside
Like Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets, the new Fire Phone will get Amazon’s 24-7 video tech support, Mayday . The service works over Wi-Fi and 3G/4G, and connects you with a representative in under 15 seconds, according to CEO Jeff Bezos. Read more…
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Fire Phone Is Getting Amazon’s Awesome 24-7 Video Tech Support
As the number and variety of air, space, and surface-based threats to our naval fleets continue to proliferate, defending against them all is getting harder and harder. But equipped with this new unified threat detection system from Raytheon, our Arleigh Burke-class destroyers will know what’s coming from 30 times farther away. Read more…
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Raytheon’s Modular Missile Defense Snaps Together Like Lego Bricks
It’s official: Google is about to ruin YouTube. A company exec told the Financial Times it will start blocking videos from record labels that refuse to sign licensing deals for its forthcoming premium service, YouTube Music Pass. This is the dumbest thing Google could do, and it threatens the very heart of what has always made YouTube so special. Read more…
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Google’s About to Ruin YouTube by Squeezing Indie Labels
Whether you’re traveling to Tanzania, Taiwan, or Tokyo, you’re likely going to run into situations where English is not the primary language. But rather than blow hundreds of dollars on Rosetta Stone or fumble through archaic paperback phrasebooks, drop one of these helpful real-time translation apps on your phone instead. Read more…
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How to Turn Your Mobile Device into a Universal Translator
Priceline is buying restaurant reservation platform OpenTable for $2.6 billion. That’s some delicious added value for the travel-booking site. Read more…
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Priceline is buying restaurant reservation platform OpenTable for $2.6 billion.
When most of us imagine what the mantle of the Earth is like, we see burning hot rock and magma (and maybe satan hanging out for good measure). But scientists have discovered evidence that all that rock may be hiding huge amounts of water— three times the volume of all our oceans combined. Read more…
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The Planet’s Biggest Water Supply Might Be Hidden 400 Miles Below the US
It’s a tale as old as time: Traveler meets luggage. Traveler falls in love. Traveler buys luggage. Traveler causes a scene as flight attendant forces traveler to pay $75 for improperly-sized baggage. And if you’ve secretly been holding out hope that we might one day be able to put this bit of passenger pageantry behind us—too bad. It’s about to get a whole lot worse. Read more…
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The Three Biggest Airlines Just Made Carry-On Sizes Even Smaller
If you’ve ever done any home improvement, you know how hard it is to visualize what a finished room will look like. That’s why Lowe’s is going to start putting so-called Holorooms in its stores. These augmented reality chambers show your finished project before you’ve even started . Read more…
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Lowe’s Is Putting (Kinda Sorta) Holodecks In Its Stores