Second catastrophic failure in recent months of a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station has once again left astronauts without new supplies, including food, science experiments and computers. … [Read more...]
Samsung’s ‘See-Through’ Truck Aims to Make Roads Safer
Samsung wants to leverage its technological expertise to make the roads a safer place. It's a situation most drivers have experienced plenty of times: You're driving down a two-lane highway, stuck behind a slow-moving semi truck and unsure if it's safe to drive in the opposite lane to pass the vehicle. … [Read more...]
What Makes Water Wet?
Why is water wet? It’s not just a question to boggle the minds of the kid scientists you encounter: It’s a question of chemistry. Nautilus recently posed just that question to Richard Saykally, a University of California, Berkeley chemistry professor who specializes in water, and here is how he explained what is going on... … [Read more...]
The High Tech Way Amazon Is Cracking Down on Fake Reviews
Amazon has continued its high-tech push into the future by deploying an artificially intelligent system to make sure customers see the most authentic reviews of a product. … [Read more...]
Samsung Announces Fix to its Keyboard Security Flaw
After a recent report from security company NowSecure detailed a vulnerability that potentially affects more than 600 million Samsung smartphones, Samsung announced a fix that should be coming in "a few days" for some devices. … [Read more...]
Samsung Galaxy: What You Need to Know About Security Risk
As many as 600 million Samsung Galaxy smartphones may have a software flaw allowing hackers to eavesdrop on phone calls and voicemail, read texts, turn on the microphone and view private photos, according to a new report from a security firm. … [Read more...]
Frugal Traveler: How to Pick a Cellphone Plan for Traveling Abroad
As a general rule, I'm against an alien takeover of our planet - unless they bring along one thing: a global wireless system that would simplify the endlessly complex world of options for using cellphones abroad. … [Read more...]
Here’s Why Lithium Batteries Occasionally Just Catch Fire
Lithium batteries are compact, efficient, and store a lot of energy. They also, occasionally, catch on fire. Why does that happen? Keep reading to find out. … [Read more...]
This Huge Engineering Project May Be Our Best Chance At Colonizing Space
Space colonization has reached an impasse, for reasons far more fundamental than a lack of money for the Space Shuttle program. There is simply no way humans can travel easily offworld without using massive amounts of rocket fuel to escape the gravity well — and that’s both expensive and environmentally unsustainable. So how will we get off this rock? … [Read more...]
IBM Invests to Help Open-Source Big Data Software — and Itself
The IBM “endorsement effect” has often shaped the computer industry over the years. In 1981, when IBM entered the personal computer business, the company decisively pushed an upstart technology into the mainstream. … [Read more...]