Geneticists Fear Illumina’s Sequencers May Distort Results
An update to Illumina’s gene sequencing technology could have contaminated the results of recent high-sensitivity data produced on the machines.…
Don’t Look Now, But Extremists’ Meme Armies Are Turning Into Militias
On the far-right, political memes have evolved from mere trolling to something that looks a lot more like military propaganda.…
The Rise of AR Will Unleash Competing Corporate ‘Realities’
Facebook’s building a platform to extend its digital reach into the physical world. Now imagine Apple doing the same. And…
The Oral History of TED, a Club for the Rich That Became a Global Phenomenon
A look at just how ideas go viral. The post The Oral History of TED, a Club for the Rich…
Facebook Just Handed Out Thousands of 360 Cameras. We’ve Got a Review
The Giroptic iO 360 camera was just given out to four thousand attendees at Facebook F8. A flood of spherical…
Facebook Unveils Two New VR Cameras With ‘Six Degrees of Freedom’
This morning, at its annual developer conference in Northern California, Facebook unveiled two new camera designs that aim to capture…
Toyota’s Still Serious About Hydrogen—It Built a Semi to Prove It
Hydrogen has never caught on. But short-distance trucking could make it finally work. The post Toyota’s Still Serious About Hydrogen—It…
Bill Nye Says Climate Change Deniers Have a Bad Case of Cognitive Dissonance
Also, magnets, how do they work? “Magic!” (JK.) The post Bill Nye Says Climate Change Deniers Have a Bad Case…
North Korea’s Failed Missile Launch Eases Experts’ Worst-Case Scenario Fears
Rather than showing off North Korea’s military might, as intended, the country’s most recent failed launch put observers at relative…
The Untold Story of the Back-Room Team That Saved Apollo 13
A new documentary explores the history of the Apollo space program, focusing on the mission control engineers who made it…