Oracle is as famous within the tech industry for its legal department as it is for its ubiquitous database software. The company’s lawyer-heavy reputation was immortalized in this classic comic by Googler Manu Cornet: At a media event at Oracle’s Silicon Valley…
When a new Switch game comes out, you’ve gotta drop everything and play it — and apparently that even means dropping your porn habit. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was released for the Switch on April 28th, and in the days…
I wrote an entire book about Ford’s new GT supercar, but up until quite recently, I had only gazed upon the car at auto shows and watched the race-car version win the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race in…
Entrepreneurship is frequently portrayed as exciting, amusing or even lavish (especially after a company has become successful), but the truth is, there’s a dark side to entrepreneurship that isn’t frequently publicized. Related: Enjoy the Ride: How to Deal With the Mental Burden…
A lot of things you use on a daily basis have their roots in DARPA projects that were intended for military purposes. Sharon Weinberger, the author of the book "The Imagineers of War," describes a few of these inventions that you…
How simple is techno – that genre that seems unstoppable, from Asia to Antarctica? It’s simple enough that it can be reduced to … six steps. No, kind of – seriously. I expected to have my intelligence insulted by this…
A new Las Vegas striptease club, The Legends Room, has launched its own cryptocurrency Legends (LGD) that can be used to pay for drinks and dances in the club, with a 20% discount, guaranteeing anonymity. LGD is issued…
In his 2013 TEDx Talk, "The first 20 hours," author and business expert Josh Kaufman busts the myth that learning new skills takes a lot of time. Proficiency, Kaufman says, is really only 20 hours away. Divided into two- or…
An important breakthrough has been made in the eradication of AIDs. Scientists have found they can successfully snip out the HIV virus from mouse cells using CRISPR/Cas9 technology. Right now patients with the deadly virus must use a toxic concoction of anti-retroviral medications…
In late April, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft began a series of potentially dangerous dives, or "ring crossings," between Saturn and its innermost rings of ice. Many of the new images it beamed back looked small, drab, and grainy, yet they represented…