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11 Tech and Science Programs Being Killed by the Government Shutdown
Oct 05, 1:00PM
Unless you've been horrifyingly oblivious to absolutely everything happening around you, you know that the government has been in a state of shutdown since Monday. Other than the confirmation that, yes, congress is just as inept and impotent as we all thought, you probably haven't noticed much of a change in your daily life. But don't let that fool you. This period of stasis could have some major detrimental impacts, particularly in the fields of science and tech. Here are some of the shutdown's worst potential scientific casualties.
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How Much Do You Care When Things Start Getting Ads?
Oct 05, 5:00AM
Instagram is getting ads! Tumblr already got 'em. Snapchat probably will. Ads are starting to appear in the Android Gmail app too. Basically, anything and everything you use will eventually have ads on them. That's how the world spins. And that's something you have to deal with. So how much do you care when things you use start getting ads?
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Wawd Ahp (VERY NSFW)
Oct 05, 4:00AM
The phrase, "the weirdest thing on the Internet tonight" is bandied about a lot these days, but this! This my fine stoney friends, is easily the weirdest thing on the Internet tonight so far. Prepare to question your faith in humanity.
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Using MS Paint to Show the Imagination of a Child Is So Adorable
Oct 05, 3:00AM
Anyone with a ticking heart and an Instagram account takes too many pictures of their newborn. It's okay to be proud! It's okay to coo and adore and love and snap photos of your baby! But at a certain point, probably past the 700 mark, those pictures become variations of the same damn thing. Helpless baby lying on bed. Helpless baby lying on bed with mouth open. With arms raised. Crying. You get the point.
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This Week's Top Comedy Video: Tubbin with Tash
Oct 05, 2:00AM
Do you know how to get the truth out of people? Not from some sort of movie truth serum shot or on a late night talk show or even in a conversation between two ferns, the way to pry the obscene truth is to stick them in a hot tub and feed them drinks. Life is so much clearer when everything is bubbling around you.
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According to Reuters, Blackberry is asking Google, Samsung, LG, Cisco, basically anybody with money
Oct 05, 1:04AM
According to Reuters, Blackberry is asking Google, Samsung, LG, Cisco, basically anybody with money to buy BlackBerry entirely or at the very least, certain parts of the company. This is seen as an alternative in case the finances don't work out in going private.
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9 Winning Super Structures From The World Architecture Festival
Oct 05, 1:00AM
The annual World Architecture Festival is about more than just awards: attendees can check out a pretty packed line-up of talks and crits, browse galleries and installations, and hob-nob with fellow folks from the biz from students to bold-named stars.
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Most Beautiful Items: September 27 - October 4, 2013
Oct 05, 12:00AM
Need some beautiful things to gaze upon at the end of a long week? How about photos of the restoration of an 138-year-old Brooklyn bank? Or a lighting pavilion that looks like it's alive? Or a massive Lego calendar that syncs with your smartphone? These things and more wonders from the worlds of design, art, and architecture are the most beautiful items of the week.
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Hanni El Khatib: Penny
Oct 04, 11:00PM
If Orange Is the New Black has taught us anything, it's that not everybody in prison is the psycho ultra-violent killer Scared Straight would have you believe. Many are just normal schmucks who made some bad decisions and are just waiting to get back to their lives on the outside. This is a song for them.
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Now Availabe: GoPro Hero 3+, Libratone Loop, Windows 8.1 and More
Oct 04, 10:20PM
Hear that? It's the weekend, barreling down the tracks of time. Let's stop that metaphor right there before we all start reflecting on the meaning of existence, and instead focus on the gadgets that went on sale this week! From the new to the newly-revamped to the somewhat puzzling, this week brought plenty of gizmos to consider. Stop wasting your life and read on!
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Our Favorite iOS, Android and Windows Phone Apps of the Week
Oct 04, 10:10PM
Welcome to the new Apps of the Week, where we give you all the cool apps we came across in one place. Android folks, iOS folks, and Windows Phone folks, now you can all come together and live in peace, sharing in the joy that is a cool new app.
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The Moto X camera fix that hit T-Mobile handsets last week is now rolling out to AT&T versions of th
Oct 04, 10:03PM
The Moto X camera fix that hit T-Mobile handsets last week is now rolling out to AT&T versions of the phone. Rejoice smartphone shutterbugs.
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High-Class Sweets Made With Tools Intended For Chandeliers
Oct 04, 10:00PM
The art of making candy will forever be associated with the dark whimsy of Willy Wonka's magical factory, but a recent exhibition held during Vienna's Design Week put a sweetly sophisticated spin on the process.
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A Desk Toy For Fidgety Types That Appears To Bend Time and Space
Oct 04, 9:20PM
Part sculpture, part toy, part perfect time waster, the OSM—or Object for Spatial Manipulation—is like a kaleidoscope brought into the 3D world that you can manipulate and morph without having to look through a faux telescope.
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The iPhone's First Demo Was Buggy as Hell
Oct 04, 9:08PM
Saturday is the second anniversary of Steve Jobs's death, and a lot of remembrances are making their way around the web. One of the most revealing comes from the New York Times Magazine who just published a sprawling report on the original iPhone. Long story short, that thing was a mess.
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How a Total Accident Saved the French Wine Industry
Oct 04, 9:00PM
Amy Harmon's excellent, recent article in the New York Times describes how the Florida orange juice industry may soon be wiped-out because of a new bacterial disease spread by an introduced insect. It looks like there could be a technology-fix for the problem using genetic engineering. The question is whether the growers will get to apply that solution.
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This Underwater Terminator Is a Floating Jellyfish Abattoir
Oct 04, 8:40PM
With the continuing collapse of fisheries around the world, a new balance of power is being set in the open oceans—one where jellies are the dominant biomass, not more modern vertebrates. This is not good.
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This Week in Time Capsules: How Do You Put a Website in a Capsule?
Oct 04, 8:24PM
This week we have a brand new time capsule in the U.K. with the Star Wars movies, a 1960 capsule in Michigan that was thought to be lost for good, and a town in Oregon that included a website print-out in their latest low-tech time travel box.
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Tour the Art Train That Traveled from New York to Oakland
Oct 04, 8:20PM
Last week a train twinkling with LED lights chugged into Oakland's 16th Street Station, its final destination on a 3,000 mile, ten-city whistle stop art happening orchestrated by Doug Aitken called Station to Station.
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Valve's Top Steam Machine Prototypes Have Absurd Specs
Oct 04, 8:11PM
Here are the specs for the prototype Steam Box units that Valve will be sending out. Rather than just sending a single design to the lucky beta testers, they'll be sending out a variety of units. And holy crap, the top-of-the-line will be spec'd to high heaven.
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Silk Road Kingpin Apparently Hid a Stash of $80 Million in Bitcoin
Oct 04, 8:09PM
Ross Ulbricht, the recently arrested mastermind behind Silk Road, appeared in court today where his lawyer begged for more time before the detention hearing. The judge said he didn't "know what you're going to accomplish in the next several days." Maybe move some of his massive stash of hidden Bitcoin?
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An Easy Trick To Help You Remember Birthdays Offline
Oct 04, 8:00PM
Facebook has basically made remembering birthdays meaningless. With automatic reminders, it's just as easy to wish a happy birthday to your own mother as it is to wish one to that random girl you think you maybe lived down the hall from you in the freshman dorms. But it doesn't take much more effort to show that you're really thinking of the people you actually care about. Here's how:
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Let's Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now
Oct 04, 7:52PM
New Friday, same deal: You're tired of working, we're here to help. From now until the end of (our) work day, we'll be hanging around in the KINJA below talking about whatever is interesting to you.
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Interactive Blocks Are Sure To Lure Kids Back To Wooden Marble Mazes
Oct 04, 7:39PM
Kids these days don't want to play with wooden blocks—they want to play wooden block games on a tablet. But Felix Heibeck has come up with a wonderful way to lure kids away from their touchscreens by adding electronic and interactive blocks to those wooden marble mazes, cleverly bridging both worlds.
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CBS Helpfully Explains That Bitcoin Is Not Actual Coins
Oct 04, 7:26PM
We get it! Bitcoin, the newfangled virtual currency, is difficult for normals to understand. Fortunately, this handy CBS News graphic from its segment on the Silk Road bust earlier this week has some answers. In that it is the opposite of helpful or correct.
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