When it was built in 1977, Citicorp Center (later renamed Citigroup Center, now called 601 Lexington) was, at 59 stories, the seventh-tallest building in the world. You can pick it out of the New York City skyline by its 45-degree angled top. Read more…
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How a Simple Design Error Could Have Toppled a NYC Skyscraper
Pathé News was perhaps the most well-regarded news agency of the 1900s—and now, its entire 85, 000-video newsreel archive is available to watch for free on YouTube . Read more…
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Legendary British News Agency’s 85,000-Video Archive Is Now on YouTube
Coral sex is a wonder to behold. On a summer night, always around a full moon, corals somehow all know to release billions of sperm and eggs into the sea, turning the water into a pink miasma of sex. This spawning relies on precise environmental cues, which could get scrambled in climate change. That’s why researchers are trying to get them to spawn in the lab. Read more…
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Look At These Beautiful Little Corals Grown Like Popsicles In A Lab
Facebook’s newest feature, Nearby Friends, begins rolling out today . The opt-in app addition lets your friends know when you’re close by, with the option to show your precise location on a map, if that’s the kind of thing you want to share with your friends. Read more…
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Facebook Adds "Nearby Friends" to Show You Where Everyone’s At
Sonos’ multi-room wireless music system is crazy easy to use, but it’s always had one annoying little drawback: You’ve got to plug at least one Sonos speaker or a Sonos Bridge into your router for it to work. Well the company just announced that it’s overhauled its tech so that you don’t need to be plugged in anymore. Read more…
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Sonos Is About to Get Even Easier By Ditching the Bridge
You wouldn’t think that a four-wheeled car would go faster if one of its wheels didn’t touch the ground. Or if its axles were bent. Or if it was designed to grind against a wall. But you’d be wrong, and here’s the science to prove it. Read more…
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The Science Behind Making the Fastest Possible Pinewood Derby Car
Let’s take rooftop farming to a whole new level—a microscopic level. Unveiled at Expo Milan this week, the Urban Algae Canopy is a living, breathing alternative to our inert roofs and facades. Could algae be the next hip trend in urban agriculture? Read more…
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This Photosynthetic Algae Roof Filters the Neighborhood Air
Today a software update is being rolled out to Roku 3 players that adds support for its universal search feature to the iOS and Android apps. This feature allows users to hunt for any actor, TV show, or movie and find it on all of the streaming services that carry it, right from the mobile app. Read more…
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Today a software update is being rolled out to Roku 3 players that adds support for its universal se
Microsoft’s Office Online —the free, web-based version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote—is headed for the Chrome Web Store as a series of apps. Read more…
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Microsoft’s Office Online–the free, web-based version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote–is he
It’s been a while since we last heard of a software update for Glass and now I guess we know why. The team over at Mountain View has been busy updating the face-computer to run on the latest version of Android (4.4.2 a.k.a. KitKat). Read more…
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Latest Update Brings KitKat to Google Glass