Sony Pictures suffered a pretty devastating hack last week. In fact, according to documents recently leaked on the web, it looks like Sony Pictures might’ve just suffered one of the worst corporate hacks in history. Salary numbers, layoff strategies, personal details of laid off staffers, and some 3,800 Social Security numbers are now out in the open.
The human eye is a more complex and mysterious thing than we thought. Recently, a group of scientists were puzzled by flashes of green light they saw from an infrared laser, whose light should have been far outside the visible spectrum. Like scientists do, they investigated. Human eyes do indeed perceive infrared light, they found, but not they same way they perceive ordinary colors. It’s weirder than that.
Thanksgiving is over. The post-Thanksgiving sales are over. And yet, turkey leftovers remain. For last week’s Shooting Challenge , we asked you to photograph your turkeys. Two of you found the time. And what resulted was a duo of turkeys—one which will make you never want to eat turkey again, and one that will inspire you to eat it for the rest of your Thanksgiving life.
Ever since the dawn of the Twitch livestreaming age, it’s seemed like a no-brainer for Steam to add some sort of quick and easy broadcasting option. And yet for some reason (hint: it’s Valve), they’ve taken their time. But finally, it’s here.
No football, no parades, just the top of a grassy mountain, 3,300 feet above the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, 25 friends and too many dogs to count. Yeah, we went camping and that meant we had a better time than you did.
So you want a table for two at Per Se, one of New York City’s toughest reservations. You play phone tag with the reservationist for a week, only to find the date you want is no longer available (in fact, nothing seems to be). But soon, thanks to a new startup, you’ll be able to go online, pick your date, and buy tickets for that dinner—just like you might select your floor seats to see the Knicks.
How to Fix the Elevator
Posted in: Today's ChiliHigh rise buildings have used the same elevator system for decades. So why mess with a good thing? Because that good thing is one major waste of space. Friends, it’s time to redesign the elevator.
If you’ve ever been the victim of harassment on Twitter, you know how hard it has been to report abuse until now; you couldn’t really do much on mobile, and the complicated process made it difficult to flag all but the scariest threats. Thankfully, T…
We’ve seen connected gadgets for homebrewing (and serving) beer before, and now there’s another gadget looking to do the heavy lifting for you. This is Brewie: a self-contained brewhouse that will have your next batch started in minutes. For the novi…
Elevators are absolutely vital in tall buildings, but they have their limits — they can only move so quickly, and they can’t usually move sideways to fetch you from the far side of a building. Both of those problems should be solved at once if Germa…