The HTC 10 Is a Nice Phone—That’s All We Have to Say About It
Once upon a time, HTC was on top of the smartphone world. Or at least solidly in the upper middle…
Synthetic Biology Is … Complex. But This Exhibit Makes It a Blast
A new exhibition at San Jose’s Tech Museum explores the present and future of synthetic biology. The post Synthetic Biology…
Photo of the Week: It’s Hard Work Being a Bee. Just Ask This Farmer
Bees used to be responsible for pollinating the fruit trees of rural China, but now humans must pollinate each tree…
As Dropbox Jumps Off the Cloud, Box Nestles Into It
The pull of the cloud is hard to resist. The post As Dropbox Jumps Off the Cloud, Box Nestles Into…
Sonar May Have Turned Up a Long-Lost Civil War Ship, the Agnes E. Fry
Archaeologists think they’ve found the shipwreck of a long-lost blockade runner: the Agnes E. Fry. The post Sonar May Have…
Pearson’s Quest to Cover the Planet in Company-Run Schools
Pearson, the company behind Common Core and the US testing-industrial complex, plans to conquer the entire world with its new…
Moog’s DIY Kit Is a Fantastic Crash Course for Synth Noobs
The Werkstatt-01 from Moog Music is a synthesizer you build yourself. It’s also a valuable tool for learning how these…
Google.org’s Giving $20 Million to Engineer a Better World for the Disabled
Whether its bets succeed or fail, Dot-org may well shape our expectations for how philanthropy is done by the very…
Ace Rocketeers Swear They’ll Put Inflatable Space Stations in Orbit, and Soon
Bigelow Aerospace’s inflatable space habitats find a company with the Atlas rockets The post Ace Rocketeers Swear They’ll Put Inflatable…
The Girlfriend Experience’s Smarts Are as Appealing as Its Sex
The new Starz show tempers body heat with cool calculation—and just like its subject matter, it’s a mutually beneficial arrangement.…