Earth Week is upon us, and NASA has prepared a very special gift for the blue planet: a planetary data-crunching tool that uses a 56,832-core, 128-screen supercomputer for helping scientists work together toward better climate change research. More »
Jobs is probably not psyched about what went down this week. It's time for payback, sweet, vengeful payback. More »
From the same chap who brought us the watch with actual moon dust and parts from Apollo 11, comes the timely (sorry) Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull watch. With—you guessed it—volcanic ash. Pretty fast, considering it only erupted last week. More »
Nate "nnenn" Nielson was a father, husband, artist, and teacher. He also popularized the "Vic Viper" LEGO spaceships that took the AFOL community by storm. He died in an accident early this month. A few of my favorite nnenn designs: More »
We already knew what was inside the iPad, but I must say, it's still a bit of a letdown that zero gnome skeletons were revealed in this shot. [gigazine via CrunchGear] More »
Sony may be winding down its OLED operations in Japan, but over in South Korea OLED is big business for LG—with news coming in today saying they're investing a whopping $225.7m into tripling production. But who's buying? More »
You paid your taxes, the government got your pesos, and here's where the President wants to spend them in 2011. Death and Taxes keeps being my favorite chart every year. Guess who gets the biggest cake piece (again). More »
There's a lot to be happy about in iPhone OS 4. Like multitasking, and threaded inboxes. So why doesn't it feel right? More »
Artist David Karave: "I saw these dummies as experiencing the vague alerts, and the anxiety and the paranoia that we normally feel as a society, in place of us, and thereby saving us." [CrashingAlert via DarkRoastedBlend] More »
As though cameras on top of every traffic light weren't bad enough already: there's now a trial run of satellites that will catch you speeding, over a several-block range, from hundreds of miles up. Hope for clouds, I guess? More »
Start pricing up HTC's Desire or Incredible, Nexus One owners, as Google has put down its hammer and announced "we are no longer investigating further engineering improvements." You're stuck with those bugs for good. More »
"What image would you like on the cake, sir?" "I'll shoot you the URL." And with these simple, misunderstood words, an epic cake wreck was born. So what was supposed to be on the cake? This: More »
Hey it's summer, what better excuse do we need for posting three yachts in one week? Especially when one of them has been styled after Lamborghini's sportscars, taking the angle of the chassis and creating a 15m long waterbeast. More »
It's not just 3D gaming that the PS3 will be offering soon. Major League Baseball will apparently be streamed live to consoles by the end of this week, but if you've got grand ideas of free baseball, think again. More »
I do love a good Rube Goldberg Machine example. While not as grand in scale as OK Go's, Vodafone Italy's commercial looks like it was insanely fun putting together—all those smartphones, in one room! Working together! Amazing. More »
Thanks to Samsung leaking a document, we now have details about ARM's roadmap for the next three years. It's not the best leak of the decade (or even the century), but helloooo 2013's Aquila, the 1.2GHz quad-core Cortex-A9. More »
There's no place more fitting for an official Gundam Cafe than in Tokyo's Akihabara district. Sadly Japanese maids don't draw hearts in syrup over your pancakes or put "love spells" on you like at Maid Cafes...but there are Gundam biscuits! More »
We've taken a close look at Apple's next iPhone and you can catch up on the saga here:
