Close up of a geyser at El Tatio, a Mars-like environment located high in the mountains of northern Chile. If we ever get proof of past life on Mars, it’ll come in the form of biosignatures, fingerprints that could only…
SEO is the acronym for Search Engine Optimization. It’s the practice of optimizing websites to make them reach a high position in Google’s – or another search engine’s – search results. SEO focuses on rankings in the organic (non-paid) search…
Ableton Loop in its second year was a vastly expanded event, with more people, more interactions, and a greater sense of community. And it was more hands-on. The workshop with Skinnerbox, the duo that makes such robust use of Live,…
Joy, last year’s film about QVC and Home Shopping Network inventor Joy Mangano, may not have been the best collaboration between superstar Jennifer Lawrence and director David O. Russell. But the fact that Mangano inspired a major movie — as…
We all love a good camera. But for many, photography isn’t a just a hobby, it’s a way of life. While you could put faster film in an analog camera to boost low-light performance, digital cameras offer flexibility at a…
San Francisco is known for its winding roads – and apparently, those winding roads make for quite the festive bike route. Every year around Thanksgiving, bikers complete the 50-mile Turkey Ride in San Francisco. If cyclists track their path on their…
Playing around with settings in Terminal is a time honored tradition amongst tinkerers, but that doesn’t make any of those commands any less obtuse. M-cli is a tool that provides you with several plain language commands for common actions. M-cli…
The European Space Agency (ESA) finally has a better idea of what caused its ill-fated Mars lander to crash-land on the Red Planet in October. It looks like the Schiaparelli lander — part of the joint alien life-hunting ExoMars mission…
We can’t imagine the amount of skill, practice and raw creativity needed for this performance. Mongolian dancer Canion Shijirbat is a professional graphics designer, and is currently making huge waves in his country for his ability to blend the two…
Jetman and his buddies are back. Yves Rossy, the man who decided that you don’t need much more than a tiny wing and a jetpack to fly, has teamed up with pilots Vincent Reffet and Fred Fugen in south of…