Want a drone to fly longer and farther? Give it a bigger battery. But that adds weight, which in turn reduces the drone’s flight time. It’s quite a conundrum. It seems like an unresolvable catch-twenty-two, except that someone has finally found a way to use wireless power to keep a drone flying . Read more…
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This Drone Can Fly Forver Without a Battery
Earlier this week, a fire at a power plant in Puerto Rico set off a series of failures across the island’s aging electrical grid. These before-and-after pics from space show what it looks like when 1.5 million customers suddenly lose power. Read more…
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Satellite Images Show the Extent of Puerto Rico’s Huge Blackout
Previously, the only Chrome OS version that included Google Play was the beta version. Today, it’s available to in the wide, stable release of Chrome OS. The new features allow you to load up any Android app you want on your Chromebook . Read more…
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The Google Play Store Is Now Available in Chrome OS, Brings Android Apps to Your Chromebook
Health officials in the US have identified a cluster of gonorrhea infections that exhibited unusual resistance against the last two main antibiotics known to work against the dreaded sexually transmitted disease. Read more…
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Our Last Line of Defense Against Gonorrhea Is Failing
By the time ITT Technical Institute (ITT) closed its doors earlier this month, the for-profit college had been selling tenuous diplomas at exorbitant prices for more than 20 years. The company had been taking millions in federal grant money, burying low-income and first-generation students in insurmountable debt, and evading regulators since the early 1990s—all while its CEO and other executives personally profited from the fraud. Read more…
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How ITT Tech Screwed Students and Made Millions
Windows/Mac/Linux: A few months ago, Opera launched its own free, built-in VPN, but you could only get it if you manually enabled it in the dev version of the browser . Now, it’s available for everyone in the stable version of Opera. Read more…
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Opera’s Free VPN, Built Right Into the Browser, Rolls Out For Everyone
Researchers in Poland have uncovered a time capsule, dating from 1934. But this isn’t some ordinary time capsule with the run of the mill items you might expect. Sure, it has newspapers, coins, and books—common items for any time capsule. But these items were buried by Nazis. The books inside? Two copies of Hitler’s Mein Kampf , in perfect condition . Read more…
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Nazi Time Capsule Opened In Poland, But It’s Missing a Movie From 1934
Apple’s just released macOS Sierra , and while it’s a minor update, it does include Siri, a universal clipboard, and a handful of other new features. Let’s take a quick look at all the new stuff. Read more…
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All the New Stuff in macOS Sierra
Marine archaeologists have found the partial remains of a 2, 000-year-old skeleton while conducting an excavation at the Antikythera shipwreck, the famous site that yielded the freakishly-advanced Antikythera Mechanism. Incredibly, the ancient remains could still contain traces of DNA. Read more…
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Ancient Skeleton Uncovered at the Antikythera Shipwreck
Janet Knox’s Baton Rogue home is now just a shell of its former self. The recent floods in Louisiana have forced her to tear out the waterlogged walls of her house and begin the rebuilding process. But Knox has had at least one pleasant surprise during the clean up. She found a time capsule dating back to 1942 stuffed inside one of the walls in her home . But there’s something that doesn’t add up. Read more…
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Woman Finds Mysterious Disney Time Capsule In Her Wall After Louisiana Floods