The Web has turned the wisdom of the crowd into a valuable, on-demand resource. Now scientists are asking how best to put crowdsourced cognition to work.
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Love Removed From France as Officials Clear Locks from Paris Bridge
L’amour est mort. Monday morning authorities began clearing Paris’s Pont des Arts bridge of hundreds of thousands of “love-locks†placed there by couples looking to demonstrate their eternal connection in the form of heavy padlocks clinging for dear life to a manmade structure.
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FBI Admits It Uses Fake Companies to Fly Surveillance Over U.S. Cities
An AP investigation has forced the FBI to admit that it uses at least 13 dummy corporations with planes like the one shown above to fly low-and-slow aerial spy missions over U.S. cities, capturing video and sometimes cellular signals from 30 cities in 11 states in a recent month.
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Your Next Windows PC Might Fit Inside a Phone Charger
What if that phone charger you casually toss into your bag everyday was more than just a power adapter? What if was secretly a fully fledged Windows PC? Well, then you’d have the Quanta Compute Plug.
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Why Haven’t You Cancelled Your Cable?
Today the FCC voted to “effectively allow cable companies to charge whatever they like
for all broadcast TV†— which is a shitty move. Most things about cable companies, the most hated of industries in terms of customer satisfaction, are terrible. Have you cut your cord or are you still wired in?
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High-yield yeast converts 97 percent of a plant to biofuel
The Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center announced a major breakthrough in the biofuel field yesterday: a newly developed strain of yeast capable of producing more than three times the amount of fuel from plant matter as the current record…
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Lufthansa will charge you extra for booking flights on other websites
Be careful when choosing a website to book that upcoming trip to Munich… you may end up paying more than you have to. Germany’s Lufthansa Group is introducing a €16 ($18) fee for flights booked through "global distribution systems," such as Expedia…
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