How The Negro Traveler’s Green Book Helped Black People Travel in the 1950s
In the 1950s, vacationing while black in America was dangerous. The commonplace discrimination occurring during the Jim Crow era meant black travelers struggled to...
What You Actually Got From Those Back-of-Magazine Ads
In the days before Google, a tiny, cryptic ad in the back of a magazine had a lot of potential. The seller might not...
Elon Musk’s Mars Colonization Plan Now Includes Intercity Rocket Travel
Musk today updated his grand plan to save humanity by moving it to Mars.
Gadget Lab Podcast: It’s Possible Amazon Now Makes Too Many Echo Speakers
This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, Alexa gets hardware and software updates, and Twitter goes long.
‘Significant Zero’ and ‘Blood Sweat and Pixels’ Review: Taking On Game Development, and the...
Two recent books take readers into the pressure cooker that videogame development can so often become.
This Extension Will Track the Cost of Your Mindless Web Browsing
Sure, you need to finish that PowerPoint presentation for next week, but it won’t hurt to just check Facebook real quick and see if...
Six Years of the Most Popular Apps, in One Infographic
Thanks to AppAnnie.com and Reddit poster IrwinRSchyster1, we’ve now got a visual trip down six years of app-memory lane, with an infographic showing the...
Truckers Win the First Battle of the Human-Robot War for Driving Jobs
Thanks to some help from the Senate.
The World’s Soaring CO~2~ Levels Visualized as Skyscrapers
This unusual animation gives an architectural twist to the history and possible dark future of climate change.
iOS 11 Is Killing 32-Bit Apps. But This Is Good News
Apple's leaving 32-bit apps behind with its iOS 11 update, but saying goodbye to 32-bit apps does more good than harm
