A Bangkok Train Station Never Looked So Film Noir
Witness the magical light of one quiet platform at Hua Lamphong train station in Bangkok. The post A Bangkok Train…
DNA Got a Kid Kicked Out of School—And It’ll Happen Again
The genetic discrimination future is here. The post DNA Got a Kid Kicked Out of School—And It’ll Happen Again appeared…
How Operation Avalanche’s Filmmakers Duped NASA to Make ‘the Most Illegal Movie Ever’
The filmmakers behind “Operation Avalanche” posed as documentarians, then made what might be the greatest copyright end-around in history. The…
How to Race a Motorcycle Across the US in a Record 39 Hours Straight
Carl Reese rode his BMW nearly 3,000 miles, from LA to NYC, in just 38 hours and 49 minutes. The…
This Little Red Book Confronts Sexism in the Chinese Language
By adapting the female radical (女) in 30 compound Chinese characters, designers have developed a new vernacular of feminist-leaning words…
Microsoft tests underwater data center
Companies are finding some of the oddest locations for data centers these days. Facebook, for example, built a data center…
Why your network admins are nervous
This past summer, the White Rose Academies Trust in Leeds, England, kicked off a project that represented the first step…
Automakers go west in search of tech and talent
Here’s how you can tell there’s a seismic shift underway in the auto industry: A slew of automakers have set…
Virtual assistants: They're made out of people!
When users first try virtual assistants (like Siri, Google Now, Cortana, M or Alexa), they’re struck by the idea that…
Xiaomi topped China’s smartphone market in 2015
Although Xiaomi may not have shipped quite as many smartphones last year as some had been expecting, data from Canalys…