What Happens to Harambe’s Gorilla Troop Now That He’s Gone? It’s Complicated
Harambe’s death throws a wrench in the carefully mapped out Gorilla Species Survival Plan. The post What Happens to Harambe’s…
The Architect of These Monstrous, Alien Cities Is an Algorithm
Daniel Brown crafts entire cities using algorithms and a bit of imagination. The post The Architect of These Monstrous, Alien…
The Physics Behind Captain America’s Ricocheting Shield
Captain America likes to throw his shield so that it bounces off multiple surfaces. How difficult would these kinds of…
Undocumented, Unafraid: Immigrants Find Power Revealing Themselves Online
The connective powers—and relative anonymity—of the Internet are starting to break down the walls of secrecy that surround undocumented immigrants.…
Cape Watch: The Best Way to Promote Suicide Squad? Soccer, Obvi
This week’s superhero movie news is a strange mix of Twitter campaigns, butlers serving up the truth, and Marvel rumors.…
Google’s Training Its AI to Be Android’s Security Guard
Meet the team of Googlers who are hoping that machine learning can help ferret out bugs and vulnerabilities in the…
Hacker Lexicon: What Is Fuzzing?
Sometimes hacking isn’t about taking a program apart: It’s about throwing random objects at it to see what breaks. The…
It’s Actually NBD Automakers Still Use Airbags the Feds Will Recall—For Now
A new report says some automakers are still using Takata airbags on new cars, but they’re not dangerous just yet.…
Go Shuck, Yourself: 4 Oyster Knives Reviewed
Cracking open delicious raw shellfish is part of this job: We round up four excellent oyster knives. The post Go…
Three Ideas for Remaking the Three-Point Shot
Kirk Goldsberry’s presentation at the 2016 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in March offered three ways to change the rising…