Uma Thurman in “Pulp Fiction.”“Pulp Fiction” Many of the notable lists that rank the greatest movies of all time — like the American Film Insitute’s “100 Years… 100 Movies” from 1998 — have enlisted thousands of movie-industry names to come up with a consensus of…
Illustration showing the moment the Schiaparelli lander was to jettison its back shell and parachute and ignite its descent engines. A preliminary analysis suggests this stage happened prematurely, likely the result of a software error. (Image: ESA/ATG Medialab) Researchers with…
So, this just happened – Ableton quietly announced an SDK for working with file export. That follows up the company’s wildly popular Ableton Link platform for sync and jamming, which is available both as an open source project and as…
Bringing the right team together for a meeting or brainstorm can take an idea from being good to great. When we tap into ideas from teams across the globe, our work becomes more collaborative and productive. It doesn’t feel like…well,…
Credit cards are convenient enemies. Almost everyone has a bad story about late fees, unauthorized charges, or overspending. Not surprisingly, many pundits (and parents) have a knee-jerk reaction to credit cards: “Using credit cards is the worst financial decision you…
Seventy years ago today, humans took a photo of our home planet as seen from space for the first time. The image itself is unassuming. Taken from aboard a Nazi-built V2 rocket on Oct. 24, 1946, the black and white…
Computer hackers have a long history of being shown on TV and in movies completely incorrectly, but if any show’s come close to accuracy, it’s Mr. Robot. So, let’s take a peak inside Elliott Alderson’s backpack. According to some snoopers…
Scientists writing in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific have found unusual signals emanating from a group of stars that are “signals probably from extraterrestrial intelligence.” The signals “have exactly the shape of an signal predicted in…
It’s been a whopping 34 years since the original TRON hit theaters back in 1982, and it’s been six years since Tron: Legacy rebooted the franchise in 2010 and brought TRON‘s ground-breaking graphics into the 21st century. I’d say that…
There’s magic out there in the world. You just need to go out there and find it. Like Japanese Twitter user @FustDrift, who just happened to find this dude in a smoking room who could casually make things levitate from…