Month September 2018

Photo: Beth Skwarecki In a power outage, a 9 volt battery can give your phone enough juice to make a call or send a few texts. You may have seen this hack before, but it works especially well in this…

On September 8th, the Ocean Cleanup launched the first of many massive plastic-cleaning arrays into the Pacific Ocean. There’s a lot of plastic in the world’s oceans, with much of it congregating in places like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Dutch innovator Boyan…

“I’m a mess whenever I think about 9/11 for too long. I know that my brain will never truly comprehend what I saw that day”. For most people who were unfortunate to find themselves amongst the terrible event…

An ambitious project to clean up the 88,000 tons of plastic floating in the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” has begun. On Sunday, the Ocean Cleanup Project started towing its “Ocean Cleanup System 001” from San Francisco to a trial site…

The 9/11 terrorist attacks transformed New York City and its skyline. In the aftermath of the tragedy, smoke filled the air, casting a grey film over the city’s Financial District. As the smog began to lift, New Yorkers were confronted with…

Photo: Adam Clark Estes (Gizmodo) If you listen to what Sony says, you could assume that the third generation of the Sony 1000X wireless headphones is all about better noise canceling. This wouldn’t be a wrong assumption. The company managed…

A startup called Forever Labs freezes and stores people’s stem cells as a kind of back-up drive for their future selves. The company is now offering a way to bank stem cells from fat stores instead of bone marrow. Stem…

I hate LinkedIn. I open it out of habit and accept everyone who adds me because I don’t know why I wouldn’t. There is no clear benefit to the social network. I’ve never met a recruiter on there. I’ve never…