Tri Alpha Energy does not have a website. Its office in California is unmarked. But this stealth company apparently has hundreds of millions in cash. And now it has something to show for it.
Impressive stuff.
Paypal has revised its user agreement policy. I hope you like robocalls, because they're going to be dialling PayPal users going forward...
A re-imagined London tube map has it (to paraphrase MailOnline) pouring its curves all over Zone 1.
Meet the Quanta Compute Plug, a fully fledged Windows PC packed into a glorified power adaptor.
The trailer is for The Drone, a (sadly) non-existent movie about a couple terrorised by their sentient, psychopathic DJI quadrotor.
PBall Gallery, a pinball museum in Budapest, Hungary, contains more than 130 once-banned (and dreaded!) electromechanical gaming machines. It’s an incredible collection, and a reminder that while most of us were glued to the game, these games are also little works of art. Read More >>
In Sweden, a clause in planning laws allows residents to build a 270 square foot building on any existing residential property — a law that’s seen some inventive new small house designs.
For a long time, the only two things that have really separated humans from apes is our ability to make fire and and our propensity towards chips. Turns out that chimpanzees likely possess both these qualities as well.
Millions of problems are addressed by the field of metaheuristics, which is about developing algorithms that help you come up with the best possible answer in any situation where there are a large number of possible solutions.
As if cyclists weren't envious enough of Dutch bike infrastructure as it is.
Smarter Every Day and Veritasium, two of the best science channels on YouTube, have teamed up to answer once and for all: Does water really flow the other way in the southern hemisphere? Read More >>
Microsoft’s updated Nokia 105 is on a whole other level compared to some of the budget-friendly phones you might be considering. This feature phone is just $20/£13.
It’s a boon for science. No word, however, on how much the seals like their new head accessories.
As part of the exhibition Ten Tops—which focuses on 26 towers of 100 floors or more—the Skyscraper Museum put together this list of 18 structures which are ranked not by their spire-tipped tops, but by the height of their public spaces designed for high-altitude gawking.
Regulations, the need for clinical trials, and a narrow and slow-to-change set of testing standards have been great at reducing failure rates, but have also led to fewer alternatives to latex in the condom aisle.
