Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin talked about a wide range of topics during an interview with Jon Evans at TechCrunch Sessions: Blockchain. He was surprisingly balanced and stated multiple times that everyone has different needs and it’s hard to live in…
German astronaut Alexander Gerst captured an amazing timelapse of the Aurora Australis, aka the Southern Lights, glittering from the International Space Station. The video shows 38 seconds of electric green lights dancing energetically to the tune of an upbeat piano…
Photography is all about light. The same scene with the same composition can look completely boring under one set of lighting conditions and very dramatic under different conditions. Good light makes the difference. But does that imply there is also…
This week Hack Your City went to Black Rock City, the seasonal settlement that fills up every August for Burning Man. Readers gave tips for surviving the heat, the dust, and the sensory overload. Honestly it sounds like literal hell…
The Embr Wave is a "personal thermostat" — a wearable you strap onto your wrist to help you feel more comfortable indoors. Embr Labs says after three minutes of using the device, you can feel up to five degrees warmer…
What makes creativity work in music? What happens in the brain? Susan Rogers has uniquely contemplated those questions both alongside artists like Prince and in research into the mind. I got the chance to interview Dr. Rogers at SONAR+D last…
Dear Salty: My wife and I were recently shopping in a neighboring city with our 2-year-old. It was getting to be midafternoon when a thunderstorm started, and we hadn’t yet had lunch. We didn’t know the area well but passed…
This week we have a guy who keeps jumping from relationship to relationship, but he’s been dying to see what the single life is like. Will he figure out how to live it up solo? Or will he realize there’s…
YouTube A few weeks ago, we were treated to one of the more vicious rap beefs in recent memory when Pusha T scorched the earth with a particularly savage diss track aimed at Drake that almost definitely made the Canadian lock himself…
Nissan This new custom-made special edition Nissan GT-R50 by Italdesign supercar looks like it came straight out of the Forza Motorsport or Gran Turismo video games because it is absolutely stunning. Much like they did with the $2 million, 610…