Google
Sorry, Siri: How Google Is Planning to Be Your New Personal Assistant
The firm is doubling down on search that is conversational, contextual, and personal.
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The firm is doubling down on search that is conversational, contextual, and personal.
During two nights in the middle of March, a team of five "starchasers" captured an incredible sight from the remote desert.
RideScout
Too many transportation choices? There's an app for that.
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Whether or not we can "run out of oil," we have to be asking bigger questions about the costs of our energy systems.
Reuters
We've long known that we have more than enough fossil fuels to create unimaginable levels of global warming.
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Betaworks has its tentacles in nearly every part of how stories are made, read, and measured.
Reuters
Mars One is not the first project hoping to boldly permanently go where no man has gone before.
Wikimedia Commons
But the sun's surface isn't all that hot, at least compared with its atmosphere.
Buzzfeed
The social news site is figuring out ways to bring "breaking news" and "social news" together (cat GIFs optional).
Christina Agapakis
A synthetic biologist explores the intersection of culture, art, and microbes -- and cheese too.
Google
Two countries -- Brazil and Russia -- stand out for their increased policing of content online.
Library of Congress
Listen to the voice of the man who brought our modern age of long-distance communication into being.
NASA
The story of the man who advocated for an extra-terrestrial observatory
Reuters
When confronted with the story of Shakuntala Devi there's one question everyone asks: "How does she do it?"
@herdyshepherd1
Somewhere, a flock is being tended.
Brian Fung/Flickr/NASA/JPL
With just a touch of programming, NASA has turned some Nexus Ones into satellites.
You better sit down for this one.
Linger
The Linger app brings you to a special corner of the Internet.
Smithsonian
A new report estimates the value of the ZIP code system exceeds $9 billion a year.
Quartz
Spoiler: They plunged, dramatically.
The world may never run out of oil—and the consequences could be dire. Plus: avoiding the worst parts of death, Henry Kissinger's statesmanship, reconsidering hair metal, and more.
