Oct. 12, 2016, 10:30 AM 16,681 Every year hundreds of thousands are infected with the HIV virus. However, an Oxford-led study revealed something unprecedented in a group of children in South Africa: a built-in defense against HIV that prevents the…
The nearly century-old teardrop pull-behind design gets a sleek, stylized upgrade by (of all people) a boat builder. With its smooth curves, flared edges, and shiny lacquered finish, the Chesapeake Light Craft (CLC) teardrop build looks more like a yacht…
The 21st Century is bringing a yearning for physical objects and low fidelity – two threads that perfectly combine in the anachronistic cassette tape. Now, I find talking about cassettes tends to get some chortles, perhaps people mumbling under their…
Uber and Airbnb, the hugely popular marketplaces for taxi-like car rides and hotel-like short-term rentals, are usually considered to be successful case stories for the emerging “sharing economy.” Another buzz phrase, “people as a services,” describes the business models of…
screenshot High school students have recreated Martin Shkreli’s infamous price-hiked HIV drug for less than a 12-piece fake mustache set. That’s right, for $2, these amazing braniacs recreated the same drug that the pharma douche is selling for $750. That’s…
Facebook wants to teach you all about how AI works Image: PA Wire/Press Association Images By Brett Williams2016-12-01 22:12:43 UTC Pay attention, everyone: Facebook is trying to teach you something. Since you probably let the social network distract you from…
You can drive underwater with this sportscar-like submarine ‘The Undersea Aquahoverer‘ is a personal submarine that looks just like a sportscar. And it requires no other skill than knowing how to drive a real car. James Bond would have loved…
The FBI may have scored a big win with operation Playpen, which helped dismantle a ring of TOR-based pedophiles and prosecute its members (thanks, Rule 41), but that was just one battle in the ongoing war against the sexual exploitation…
Australian high school students have done "a little Breaking Bad" by synthesizing and effectively open-sourcing the drug famously hiked 5,000 percent in price by "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli. The drug they recreated, Daraprim, is used to treat infection caused by…
When a tremor wobbles the ground underneath your feet, it’s easy to keep your head down, keep typing, do whatever it is you were already doing. Perhaps someone just dropped something very heavy a ways away, that’s all. But if…