Maybe you've heard of Bitcoin—it wants to shake the entire global economy, and has become the financial bubble du jour with a skyrocketing value. It's online money—an alternative to pounds and euros. Well what's that mean? It's complicated, but we break it down. Read More >>
Featured comment by mark.tey.315:
"I wanted to buy Bitcoins here, in the UK, directly without intermediators on ebay or other middle men (because fees are huge), and I found it very dif..." More »
Did you hear about the HTC One's fancy new "UltraPixel Camera"? HTC touts the camera as an end to the "megapixel wars." UltraPixels! Revolution! And, yes, the technology sounds very promising, but, uh, wait a second, what is an UltraPixel anyway? Read More >>
Featured comment by josh.moulder:
"ah i see, i took the diagram at face value
i'm still very skeptical of this though, well, we'll see when it's released and real photo's are taken, ..." More »
Tired of smiling and nodding along while your electrical engineering buddies debate the finer points of electromagnetic theory? If you're taking a critical eye to the definitive guide to batteries, you've got to understand what electricity is to begin with. Here's a crash course on the fundamental force that's driving our digital revolution. Read More >>
Featured comment by LlamaAardvark:
"This is an incredibly poor article - it's unintelligible to the layman and stinks of bullshit to the expert. This is the low point of 'scientific' jou..." More »
Israel got itself into a little mini-war in Gaza, and Hamas is firing off an extra dose of rockets into the Holy Land. What's (maybe) stopping them? Something called the "Iron Dome"—and what exactly is an Iron Dome, you might ask? Read More >>
The lustrous patina that protects the backside of Apple's new iPad Mini isn't just some cheap shellac or sealant coat—it's actually "grown" on the metal itself in an electrochemical process known as anodisation. Here's how. Read More >>
To create the new iMac, Apple's thinnest desktop yet, the designers used friction-stir welding to going the aluminium body. Unlike arc welding, the more standard way to fuse metal plates, a friction stir just needs a good rubbing — and a few thousand kilos of pressure — to stick together. Read More >>
Pheed is the latest social network start up to roll off the factory line, promising to change our internet lives (or something). It combines aspects of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr (among others), and coats itself in a celebrity-endorsed sheen. So what is Pheed? Long story short, it's a shitshow. Read More >>
This thing looks like a cross between a gun, some weird cooking utensil, and an elaborate medical instrument. It is of course none of those things: but can your work out what it was used for? Read More >>
Featured comment by theran24:
"I knew what it was, although the ones I'd seen below looked quite different (Google "gunpowder tester", the ones that look like a pizza cutter)." More »
Intel Clover Trail. Sounds like a JJ Abrams movie about camping, right? But Clover Trail is actually the next generation Intel Atom chip that'll power both Windows 8 tablets and laptops. Which means you'll probably run into this chip pretty darn soon, so get familiar. Read More >>
Everyone really likes AirPlay, Apple's Wi-Fi streaming standard that lets you send movies and music from, say, your iPhone to your speakers or Apple TV. Now there's a new standard out to do pretty much the same thing for everyone else. But how is it different from previous attempts? Read More >>
Featured comment by professore:
"Isn't the main point of a "standard" something that many companies agree upon and use in their products to mutual benefit - in contrast to "proprietar..." More »
There is no shortage of platforms to post your ideas, photos, videos—whatever—online, but today we got another high-profile one. Medium announced itself with a lofty manifesto about publishing and media. But, um, what makes it different and why should anybody use it? Read More >>
Lots of exciting new computers! And no matter what, we still get jazzed about processor speeds. But what's this Turbo Boost business Apple mentioned? Why do CPUs have two different speeds? It's actually pretty simple. Read More >>
Featured comment by FRISH:
"1) No you need to turn it off in the bios.
2) If you decide to oc with turbo boost on then you need to take the turbo boost into consideration, eithe..." More »
By now you've likely heard the horrifying tale of the naked Florida man who was shot by police while eating another man's face. What possessed Rudy Eugene to consume 75-percent of a homeless man's face? Drugs, obviously. It's not totally clear which drugs Eugene was on, but police have speculated that the attack was prompted by cocaine psychosis. That sounds like a serious condition. But what exactly is it? Read More >>
Featured comment by Digipy:
"im nearly 30 and i know for a fact that quality has declined dramatically in the last ten years from both sides of the fence." More »
The British artist David Marsh has devised a clever way to combine his two favourite things—Adobe design software Pantone colour swatches and album cover art—with a nod to Pointillism. Each finished piece uses 1,369 Pantone swatches to recreate a pixelated version of some of the most famous album artwork of the past half-century. Read More >>
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