By Bryan Lufkin
The pilot for the new hacker drama …
By Bryan Lufkin
The pilot for the new hacker drama …
Turning a cube into a rotating multi-colored puzzle isn’t terribly difficult. Ernő Rubik did it back in 1974 without the need for a computer. For other shapes, though, like a complicated 3D bunny, you need to figure out the perfect way to slice it up so that every sub-section can rotate freely. But thankfully there’s now software that can automatically do that for you.
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By Bryan Lufkin
Back in 2011, a team of volunteers crammed Geiger counters into bento-shaped boxes to map the radiation following the Fukushima meltdown. It turned into the biggest collection of radiation data in history. Next up: tackling air pollution.
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By Rich Trenholm The Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition goes on sale this week in a lottery-style sale.
By Ben Fox Rubin Sightings of a mysterious Amazon truck driving around Seattle start popping up on Twitter.
By Darren Orf
Back in the day, when smartphones were actually small, the circular home button that has been a mainstay on the iPhone since gen one wasn’t that big of a deal. But as iPhones continued to challenge practical ergonomics by inching a bit bigger year after year, it’s become kind of a problem. It just takes up too much damn space.
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By Michelle Starr Humanoid robot Pepper has started selling on the Japanese market — and its first limited run sold out within a minute.
By Anthony Domanico Watch a man escape from an unseen horror in this teaser for AMC’s upcoming “Fear the Walking Dead,” a spinoff of its hit zombie series “The Walking Dead.”
By Caitlin Petrakovitz Presented with extreme prejudice and lots of feels, here are the top (bottom?) least-fun, most-gut-wrenching, “can’t take my eyes off the screen but I can’t not watch” moments of the entire series. Spoilers abound.