Month September 2016

Toptal cofounders Taso Du Val, left, and Braenden Beneschott. Toptal By the time Braenden Beneschott graduated from Princeton, his startup for placing technical freelance workers with companies, Toptal, was already doing about $1 million a year in revenue.  Nearly six years…

It was called “909 day.” It was on the ninth of September. And it included a new 909 product. So far, so good. But Roland’s 909 day stops making sense around there. It launched over 30 products, many of them…

Handout Men are already naturally adverse toward going anywhere near a clitoris during sex, and a new French sex education idea — showing young dudes accurate, 3-D renderings of it — ain’t going to make a difference, because dear CHRIST,…

GIF Every work week should end with a quick game of wall climbing Pong. That is, a game of Pong that is projected onto a rock climbing wall that tracks your body parts as paddles so that the ball reacts…

We all have a short time on this planet, and some of us are lucky enough to get to work on tools that people use to make music. You can count on your fingers the number of people who had…

In early 2015, Georgia Tech student Ryan Pickren made headlines when he was arrested on charges of hacking into the calendar system of rival school University of Georgia ahead of a big football game and added an entry saying "Get Ass Kicked…

GIF Gif by Gizmodo via Conservation International/YouTube Earlier this month, a three-crew submarine dove to Cook seamount, a 13,000-foot-tall extinct volcano off the coast of Hawaii that had never been visited by humans. They discovered dazzling geologic features and a…

A California company rents ‘kits’ of gear to equip anyone for a weekend under the stars. Can a rental concept catch on nationwide? It’s no secret that some outdoor activities have hefty price tags. For many people it’s hard to afford all the…