Month December 2017

These Were the Most Read Books of 2017, According to Amazon

While Amazon sells a plethora of things these days (yep, even tiny houses), they started with books. Here’s what people read the most—and the fastest—in 2017. According to Amazon Charts, people couldn’t put down the following titles. These Kindle and…

Waze adds Liam Neeson as its latest navigator

Liam Neeson seems like the kind of guy you’d want around in a crisis, and while the chances of him appearing when your pipes have burst or someone’s fallen down the stairs are slim, you can now rely on him…

The most stunning science photos of 2017

The Arctic skies light up in a blaze of blue and green when solar wind blasts the atmosphere with charged particles. Storms and wildfires leave debris and ash in their trails. And ecosystems and fellow animals are increasingly transformed by…

This Lightning Network Designer Is Re-Inventing Bitcoin Smart Contracts

Bitcoin is usually not considered the blockchain best suited for self-executing conditional payments, better known as smart contracts. While it does support basic programmability to enable features like time locks and multi-signature (multisig) schemes, competing projects like Ethereum, Ethereum Classic…

How to Become a Better Street Photographer

Photo by Ben Fractenberg I’ve been working as a professional photographer for nearly a decade, but I still get a little nervous every time I head out to take some street shots. The good thing is, street photography is, in…

The Beginner’s Guide to Edibles

GIF Illustration: Sam Woolley/GMG You’ve likely heard the “I ate too much of a tasty, chocolatey edible and freaked the eff out” stories, whether from friends, family members, or from New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd’s much-discussed coverage of…