Day July 10, 2017

What Would Happen If We Blew Up the Moon?

Image: Jim Cooke/Gizmodo/Lucasfilm The Moon is the Tango to Earth’s Cash, the Hall to our Oates, the Lennon to our McCartney before they hated each other. Simply put, our planet and the Moon are soul mates: except, of course, if…

Crunch Report | Comma.ai Launches Panda

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The only way to stop another WannaCry is with regulations

It’s been one week since the newest (and therefore scariest) cyberattack, which caused pandemonium across Ukraine and Russia before spreading to other countries. But that came only a few weeks after the WannaCry ransomware targeted Windows XP machines worldwide, which…

The most persuasive phrase in the human language

Certain phrases tap into our innate psychology. Behavioral scientist Nicolas Gueguen at the University of Southern Brittany tested for this to see how you could more easily get what you want — just by prefacing your request with this simple phrase.…

43 paintings you need to see before you die

In an old barn that Jackson Pollock transformed into a studio, the artist laid his massive canvas on the wooden plank floor. He hurled white, yellow, blue, and black paint with sticks and knives at it. As he finished, he pressed his cigarette butt…