Month August 2017

Boss emailing you on vacation? Respond with this.

I sat with my head propped up in my hand at one of those cramped hotel computer desks, listening to my boss ramble endlessly on the other end of the phone about something she needed—yet was apparently unable to locate…

Researchers developed soft, self-healing skin for robots

A team of researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) recently published a paper in Science Robotics, in which they unveiled their squishy, self-healing robots. Read more… More about Tech, Technology, Mashable Video, Research, and Tech Utility from Mashable! …

Biggest X-Ray Laser Gun on Earth Opens in September

Image: European XFEL/Heiner Müller-Elsner Even if you haven’t seen any James Bond films, you’re probably aware that the space laser battle depicted in Moonraker ranks among the stupidest scenes in the franchise’s history. But there’s a new laser gun in…

Future Of Surf? We Ride NLand’s On-Demand Ocean

Massive surfable waves every two minutes, all day long… that is reality at a one-of-a-kind venue in the hill country outside Austin, Texas. Sun beats down on the lagoon. A pier stretches into the distance, wood decking and rails above…