Day July 6, 2017

This year’s TED conference produced dozens of exciting talks, touching on topics such as education, transportation, poverty, and artificial intelligence. Not everyone could afford the $10,000 ticket, however, so thankfully many of the talks have finally been made available for public viewing…

Most Americans are dealing with work emails after office hours, including checking their inboxes on weekends and while on vacation, according to recent research from Reachmail. The report was based on data from a survey of 1,000 people in the…

It’s getting easier all the time to be paid in cryptocurrency. As of Monday, July 3, Bitwage, the Bitcoin payroll and international wage payment service, announced that it is launching services in the U.K. While there might be irony given…

Fidget spinners have been keeping fingers and thumbs very busy lately. But, now it seems another part of one’s anatomy can be used for fidget spinning: Your nipples.  The creative individual behind this stroke of genius has dubbed her invention…

AlphaBay, a dark web marketplace that sells drugs and guns, has gone offline — sparking fear amongst its users that it is an "exit scam" stealing their funds. However, a staff member has denied that the team behind the site…

If you ask Ethan Kaplan, chief product officer of digital at Fender, about the death of the electric guitar, he gets a bit incredulous. And it’s easy to understand why. As he’s quick to point out, "for some reason, there’s…

Illustration by Jason Benjamin Bitcoin, the decentralized digital currency dominated by white men, seemed on the verge of disappearing after every scandal, crash, or hack. But eight years later, it’s not only growing but accelerating, tripling in total value since…

It’s been five years since physicists at CERN reported (in the understated manner typical of scientists) that they had observed a particle “consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson.” The discovery capped decades of theory and was an important triumph for…

How do things work? To find out, we observe them and we take them apart. But not everything is easily observed, and until recently some things couldn’t be taken apart. It’s the culmination of a theory that has its genesis…