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A Chemistry Set For Hackers, Made Modern
Chemistry sets were the original hardware hacker's cookbook, teaching kids about the modular nature of matter in ways that would be consistent with today's homebrew projects and mashups. But safety has...
View ArticleThese Simple Interactive News Maps Give Your Stories A Sense Of Place
Interactive maps can draw people into complicated stories in an easy-to-understand way, making them great traffic-earners for media sites. But building those maps often involves working with arcane...
View ArticleNew Wolfram Language Brings The Power Of Mathematica To Any Device
Wolfram Research's flagship program Mathematica has run on full-power desktops at science and engineering labs for 25 years. Now it's possible to run Mathematica for free on a Raspberry Pi, the...
View ArticleFor Clothing Designers, Virtual Models Are Faster Than Flesh
Traditionally, fashion designers have had to rely on flesh-and-blood models to understand what their clothes look like on the human body, and shoppers have been wary of ordering clothes online without...
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This Smart Sleep Mask Helps You Rest Better in Less Time
Studies say up to a quarter of Americans don't get enough sleep, and there's no shortage of articles about how to function better with power naps and elaborate "polyphasic" sleep-and-wake cycles.But...
View ArticleHow Uber Conquered The World In 2013
Since its launch in mid-2010, transportation-on-demand startup Uber has grown from its San Francisco roots to more than 60 cities across six continents. And according to widely circulated internal...
View ArticleThe Bitcoin Startup Boom May Mean More Bitcoin ATMs
A company called Robocoin plans to expand its Bitcoin ATMs into the Asian market, allowing people to withdraw the booming virtual currency as cash in Hong Kong and potentially Taiwan.Robocoin, which...
View ArticleSony's PS4 Is Outselling Xbox By This Much
Sony says it sold more than 4.2 million PlayStation 4 consoles in 2013, handily surpassing the "more than 3 million" Xbox One units Microsoft said it sold last year.Sony Computer Entertainment CEO...
View ArticleGitHub's New Analytics Show How Popular Your Code Is
Have you ever wondered how many people are looking at your GitHub code repositories? Thanks to the service's new analytics feature, the guessing game is over.GitHub's analytics feature, which launched...
View ArticleThis New App Wants To Be Snapchat For Grown-up Professionals
A new iPhone app called Confide aims to be a Snapchat for professionals, providing encrypted, disappearing messages for off-the-record communication.The app doesn't allow for scandalous...
View ArticleHow To Guard Against New DDoS Attacks That Hit EA Sports
Network time protocol servers tell other computers what time it is and help keep the Internet in sync. But if your NTP server isn't properly secured, it can be hijacked into joining distributed denial...
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This Hacker Turned A Raspberry Pi Into Tablet Computer
Not satisfied with the tablets available on the market? Don't rule out building your own.Michael Castor, an evangelist for Make magazine's online store Maker Shed, did just that, putting together a...
View ArticlePlummeting Surveillance Costs Make Spying Cheap And Easy
Modern tools like GPS and cell-phone tracking make police surveillance dramatically easier and cheaper than ever before, two privacy experts say this month in the Yale Law Journal. In 2012, for...
View ArticleHow VCs Are Coping With The Startup Boom
Until recently, venture capitalists and early-stage investors had to rely on their intuition and hand-rolled spreadsheets to know which companies were worth funding. But with a glut of new companies to...
View ArticleHow This Team Built Their Own Secure Version Of Google Chrome
The folks behind WhiteHat Security weren't satisfied with the security and privacy found in exiting web browsers, so they decided to make their own--and quickly encountered a huge design challenge. The...
View ArticleThe Weird, Hyper-Incentivized World Of "Bug Bounties"
When Brazilian computer security expert Reginald Silva found a security hole in Facebook's servers, he quickly let the company know. And Facebook didn't just thank him--the social networking giant paid...
View ArticleA Guide To Finding Security Holes For Fun And Profit
Paying developers to find bugs is all the rage these days. GitHub just announced a bug bounty program offering ethical hackers $5,000 rewards for discovering vulnerabilities in its platform. This comes...
View ArticleCould This 20-Year-Old Kid Make Bitcoin Obsolete?
Toronto programmer Vitalik Buterin was just 17 when he first became active in the world of Bitcoin. Now, at 20, he's one of the creators of a new currency called Ethereum, which its founders hope will...
View ArticleMajor Bitcoin Exchanges Are Attacked At Once, Creating Pandemonium
Bitstamp on Tuesday became the second Bitcoin exchange to halt withdrawals in recent days after a denial-of-service attack exploiting a property of the Bitcoin protocol made it difficult to verify...
View ArticleOyster Gets Surprising Early Analytics On Your Reading Habits
When the e-book subscription app Oyster launched last year, it was quickly dubbed "the Netflix of books" by the press. But since then, analytics and anecdotes have demonstrated that Oyster's customers...
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