In Compton last year, police began quietly testing a system that allowed them to do something incredible: Watch every car and person in real time as they ebbed and flowed around the city. Every assault, every purse snatched, every car speeding away was on record—all thanks to an Ohio company that monitors cities from the air. Read more…
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Police Are Testing a "Live Google Earth" To Watch Crime As It Happens
When you want a frosty cold one, you usually don’t have the time to wait for your pint glass to actually get frosty sitting in a fridge. So you probably settle for a less satisfying can or bottle—a compromise you’ll never have to make again with this countertop glass frosting contraption. Read more…
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Forget the Freezer, This Device Frosts a Beer Glass In Just 10 Seconds
Windows Phone 8.1 is here , and with it comes not only with a notification center(!) but a brand new Halo-flavored voice assistant. But how does Cortana shape up against her competitors, who have a year or two of experience on her? Surprisingly well. Read more…
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Cortana vs. Siri vs. Google Now: The Ultimate Voice Control Showdown
Over the next three years, the U.S. Army will be filling its brand new cyber warfare institute at West Point with the best and brightest hackers it can find. Not just hackers, however: the institute will bring together psychologists, lawyers, mathematicians—anyone who can help the country win the inevitable cyber war and save America. Read more…
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U.S. Army Compares New Hacker School To "The Birth Of The Air Force"
After decades of work, a team of doctors say they’ve successfully engineered vaginas that have been implanted and grown in women. The vaginas were grown in a lab from the female patients’ own cells and later transferred to their bodies, where they formed into normal vaginas. The breakthrough bears some huge implications, too. Read more…
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Doctors Can Now Grow Engineered Vaginas in Women
You’ve probably heard about the ambitious, almost impossible-sounding project to fly a solar-powered plane around the world without refueling . But now, about a year before the voyage is scheduled to begin, you get your first look at the plane itself. It’s unlike any plane you’ve seen before. Read more…
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This Plane Will Circle the World Using Only the Power of the Sun
A pioneering new technique which uses electrical implants in the spines of paralyzed patients can help them move their legs again —and could soon allow them to walk once more, too. Read more…
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Amazing New Spinal Cord Implant Revives Paralyzed Man’s Legs
Craig Rozynski is an Australian designer who took upon himself to dignify the most ridiculed and beleaguered typeface in the world: Comic Sans. He turned the horrible typeface into an actually attractive typeface: Comic Neue. It’s a miracle. Read more…
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The ridiculed Comic Sans typeface gets its dignity back with Comic Neue
AT&T is currently experiencing a nationwide blackout in U-verse service. The company says the outage is “due to a power-related issue triggered by a third-party at our video hub.” [ Mashable ] Read more…
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AT&T is currently experiencing a nationwide blackout in U-verse service.
If you’ve ever tried to get work done at a coffee shop during rush hour, you know that even something as simple as a Google Search can be soul-crushingly slow. Thanks to a new Wi-Fi technology from Qualcomm , though, all that may be about to change. Read more…
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Your Coffee Shop’s Wi-Fi Speeds Are About to Triple