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Obama's NSA Reforms Aren't As Sweeping As You'd Hoped
Jan 17, 4:57PM
In a major speech Friday morning, President Obama scaled back the NSA's surveillance operations and redefines how we collect intelligence overseas. In brief, he ordered the end of the bulk telephony metadata program and spying on foreign leaders. Beyond that, though, the future remains murky.
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This Cold War "Mining" Barge Was Really Built to Steal Soviet Subs
Jan 17, 4:40PM
When an advanced Soviet submarine sank in the Pacific in 1968, the CIA decided to risk World War III on a daring covert mission, using this massive barge to raise the sunken vessel and pry out its secrets.
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Startup Makes App to Help People Evade Traffic Laws
Jan 17, 4:12PM
Never, ever forget: the Silicon Valley insider crowd is exempt from the rules and norms of the rest of the citizenry. TechCrunch excitedly reports on a new app called "Fixed," which will help San Franciscans automatically kill parking tickets, whether or not they deserve it.
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The 11 Best American-Designed Buildings of The Year
Jan 17, 4:00PM
Every year, the American Institute of Architects invites its members—some 83,000 licensed architects—to enter the buildings they've designed in the past five years for an award. It's about as solid an award as an architect can receive, and this year's winners were just made public.
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Watch President Obama Outline NSA Reforms Live
Jan 17, 3:57PM
At 11 AM President Obama is set to announce his reforms to the NSA's expansive surveillance programs. Leaked information suggests he might be curtailing the agency's spy powers significantly. What's he going to announce? Follow along with the stream embedded below.
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Most ATMs Are Still Running Windows XP--Which Is About to Die Off
Jan 17, 3:26PM
The last ATM you used probably didn't feel very cutting-edge compared to your smartphone. That's because it's probably running Windows XP, an operating system so old, Microsoft will stop supporting it in April.
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Fix Every Gmail Annoyance with This Awesome Chrome Extension
Jan 17, 3:04PM
Spend too much time rooting around in your Gmail inbox but then somehow manage to miss that one important email when it actually comes in? It's happened to all of us. But if you set up the awesome Chrome extension Checker Plus for Gmail it never has to happen again.
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Mr. Potato Head Homer: Let's Play D'oh
Jan 17, 2:40PM
If you're old enough to remember when The Simpsons was just a series of animated shorts on the The Tracey Ullman Show, you'll probably feel even older when you realize that as of this year the show has been on the air for a quarter of a century. And what better way to celebrate its success than by immortalizing the characters as plastic over-sized toy potatoes?
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Leaked Images of New Olympus OM-D Show Smaller But Similar Body
Jan 17, 2:22PM
Last year saw the release of the Olympus OM-D EM-1, a body built for pros with a huge grip and tons of bells and whistles. It looks like Olympus is starting out 2014 with another OM-D body, this time built for a slightly less advanced tier of buyers. These leaked images show the goods.
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This Is the World's First Working Cell Made From Plastic
Jan 17, 2:20PM
Scientists have long been toiling to create artificial life, managing to produce man-made cell walls and even synthetic DNA. But now, a team of chemists has produced a functioning cell made from polymers.
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27 Amazing Images From the Depths of Scientific Labs
Jan 17, 2:00PM
As an image-driven person, I often find myself deeply lost and buried in the vast online libraries of universities and research centers. Scientists just love to show off all the big and shiny machinery they work on.
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Rock mysteriously appears in front of the Mars Opportunity rover
Jan 17, 1:31PM
Left: a photo taken 3528 days after the Opportunity rover arrival to Mars. Right: the exact same spot 12 Mars days later. Notice the difference? NASA JPL scientists did too: "It's about the size of a jelly doughnut. It was a total surprise, we were like 'wait a second, that wasn't there before, it can't be right. Oh my god! It wasn't there before!' We were absolutely startled."
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We knew LG's curved G Flex was heading to US carriers, but it's happening sooner than expected: you'
Jan 17, 1:09PM
We knew LG's curved G Flex was heading to US carriers, but it's happening sooner than expected: you'll be able to get the phone via Sprint from January 31st for $300.
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Reuters: Obama to Stop NSA Spying on Phone Records Without Legal Reason
Jan 17, 12:57PM
We already knew that Obama was set to announce some major NSA reforms today, and now Reuters is reporting ahead of the event that he will prevent the Agency from looking at phone records without a legal reason.
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The History of the Human Cannonball
Jan 17, 12:29PM
Whenever there is a list released of the world's most dangerous jobs, tree loggers, steelworkers, electrical power-line installers, and fisherman usually are the professions that populate the list. But none of those things are nearly as dangerous as being propelled out of a long cylinder tube, flown through the air completely untethered, and attempting to land safely on the ground. As you'll soon see, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics recently listed logging as the most dangerous job in America at 127.8 deaths per 100,000… well, let's just say that's laughable compared to the death rates of the human cannonballers.
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This Beautiful Wooden Table Only Weighs 10 Pounds
Jan 17, 11:53AM
This gorgeous wooden table, designed by Ruben Beckers, is called kleinergleich5—which means "less than five"—because it weighs 4.5 kilos, just 10 pounds. What the hell?
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The World's Biggest Global Warming Offenders, Visualized
Jan 17, 10:48AM
New calculations show that the US, China, Russia, Brazil, India, Germany and the UK were responsible for more than 60 per cent of global warming between 1906 and 2005. Here, those numbers are visualized so it's plain for all to see.
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This is how San Francisco sounded just before getting destroyed in 1906
Jan 17, 10:26AM
Hardscrabble Pictures added sound to this old black and white silent film of San Francisco's Market Street in April 14, 1906, just four days before the big earthquake that destroyed 80 percent of the city. It's really wonderful—put on your headphones and listen to the calm before the storm.
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Is There Any Wearable Tech You Actually Want to Wear?
Jan 17, 10:00AM
Smart glasses, fitness trackers, intelligent contact lenses, hell, even weird bracelets that tell you when to get out of the sun. Wearable tech seems to be very much the future—just ask Dilbert—but do you want to wear any of it?
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Actually, You Don't Always Need to Be More Precise Than Everyone Else
Jan 17, 9:15AM
Whether it's a comment thread on a blog or a conversation in a bar, we're all guilty of interjecting with our own, more precise, more accurate—hell, plain better—take on pretty much any topic. But maybe we should all quit that habit, every now and then.
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Woman Ticketed For Wearing Google Glass While Driving Judged Innocent
Jan 17, 8:30AM
Remember the woman who got a ticket for wearing Google Glass while driving? Well, her citation's been dismissed by a San Diego court commissioner, who said he found no proof the device was operating at the time.
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I can't figure out which way the girl in these photographs is standing
Jan 17, 5:29AM
So her hair makes it look like she's turned away from the camera but her clothes are set up to make it look like she's facing the camera. What way is she really facing? Honestly, I can't tell. Malin Bergman loves to play little games with her Instagram pictures to make you question and wonder what's really happening in the photo.
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WTIT: Santa Deaths and How to Avoid Them
Jan 17, 5:00AM
Folks might think St. Nick's present-delivery service is a pretty cushy gig, seeing as how the man only works one night a year, but they fail to realize the numerous and diverse ways that job can kill.
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This upside down house is actually right side up
Jan 17, 1:59AM
Your eyes aren't deceiving you, this house was actually built upside down. The roof is on the floor, the Mini Cooper is parked in the sky and every fixture in the house is flipped around. But when the house is upside down it's actually right side up, if that makes any sense, because the interior is flipped too.
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Google Is Making Smart Contact Lenses for Better Health Monitoring
Jan 17, 12:42AM
A late-breaking surprise just came out of the Google camp with the revelation that it's going to start making smart contact lenses. As in contact lenses with integrated sensors and circuitry. Yep, it's that time in the future. But it might not be what you're hoping for. It isn't the next generation of heads-up display (a Google Glass people would willingly wear in public), rather, it's for sensing.
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