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New York hipsters are being encouraged to move to Detroit
New York residents may have noticed new billboards throughout the city encouraging them to move to Detroit.There’s one in SoHo, another at the Ace Hotel in Midtown, and the other two billboards are in...
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‘Alien’ camel fossil found in Austria
The skeleton of a camel that lived in the 17th century during the second Ottoman-Habsburg war has been discovered in a refuse pit in Austria.The animal would have been somewhat of an "alien" along the...
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Watching homeless people read mean tweets about themselves will leave you in...
"I'll never understand why homeless people smell of piss when you can literally piss anywhere."That awful tweet was one of the handful read by people living with homelessness for a campaign created by...
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13 features we'd like to see in iOS 9 (AAPL)
Apple will likely introduce the next version of its mobile operating system, iOS 9, at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in June.Apple will reportedly focus on under-the-hood improvements,...
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Google and Apple's new laptops may sound bad now, but they are the future of...
On paper, the future of laptops looks disappointing.A few days ago, we learned Apple's new MacBook is about four years behind in terms of performance. It has a gorgeous new design and a sharp display,...
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Here's how common it is to cheat on your partner
A reader submitted the following question:"Just how common is cheating? What percentage of people admit that they have done it before?"This is a surprisingly difficult question to answer because it...
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The Samsung Galaxy S6 has the best smartphone camera
Samsung's newest phone, the Galaxy S6, has the best camera you can get in a smartphone.It's close, and there are some nuances, but I think the Galaxy S6 camera slightly outperforms the iPhone 6 camera....
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Anne Frank probably died earlier than anyone thought
Anne Frank, the young Jewish teenager whose diary became one of the most iconic portrayals of the Holocaust, likely died about a month earlier than her official death date, a new historical analysis...
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It's time to stop freaking out about smartphones that bend
If you try to crush your phone under a robot, it will bend.That's what SquareTrade discovered in a bend test of popular smartphones. The group found that Samsung's newest phone, the Galaxy S6 Edge,...
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A homeless man learned to code and became famous; one year later, he stopped...
In the summer of 2013, a man named Patrick McConlogue offered a man named Leo $100 — or the opportunity to learn how to code.Leo was homeless, living on the streets of New York City, and McConlogue...
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The world's most powerful particle accelerator just started running again —...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the giant underground particle accelerator that brought us the Higgs boson, restarted on Easter Sunday (April 5).The LHC laid dormant for two years while it was...
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I made a bold move from iPhone to Android, and I completely regret it
First of all, let me explain why this was so "bold."Apple has ruled my personal technological world for years. My first smartphone was an iPhone 3G back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Around that...
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It's astonishing how far Disney is going to bury the X-Men (DIS, FOX)
At first it seemed coincidental that the X-Men were fading in popularity, while the Avengers were rising.Then there was a conspiracy theory that Marvel, which was bought by Disney in 2009, was...
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59 amazing things you can do with baking soda
We write a lot about miracle products, from coconut oil to Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps. But baking soda is the original when it comes to miracle products, dating all the way back to the ancient Egyptians...
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The European Space Agency is using a 10,000-year-old fishing net design to...
Aerospace engineering usually focuses on finding the next best thing, developing complex new technologies to explore the final frontier.But sometimes it is just as innovative to recycle old ideas in...
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31 GIFs that show how the Apple Watch will work (AAPL)
Apple will finally release its first-generation Watch this month, with preorders going on sale Friday at midnight PST.If you want to know what's novel or unique about the Apple Watch, or you're still...
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A radical experiment tried to make old people young again — and the results...
The idea that getting old means getting frail and forgetful is so embedded in our cultural understanding of aging that it can be hard to tease apart medical realities and simple biases about the...
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5 things Elon Musk believed would change the future of humanity... in 1995
So what drives a game-changing figure like Elon Musk?That's what Neil deGrasse Tyson was wondering when he got the chance to interview Musk for the March 22 episode of his StarTalk Radio podcast.Musk...
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The world is getting more religious
The world is becoming more religious, as the number of agnostics and others who don't affiliate with a certain religion shrinks as a percentage of the global population.By 2050, just 13 percent of...
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Should you trust companies with your DNA?
In January, the biotech company Genentech reportedly committed $10 million for access to the DNA of 3,000 Parkinson's patients and their families. A week later, Pfizer made a similar deal for the...
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