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Unless someone has been living beneath a sizeable pile of rocks for the past decade, they've probably heard of Amazon Prime. Prime started out as the expedited shipping service for the warehouse-to-the-world that is Amazon.com. These days, Prime member benefits have expanded to include access to video content, streaming music service, photo storage and a
Did you know that you can use physics and chemistry to create food with remarkably unique tastes, textures, and properties? Imagine a cocktail that has been compressed into a spherical piece of ice. Or how about a piece of transparent ravioli that disappears when you drop it into the water? You could even create ice
It goes without saying that the Internet is a great tool for those seeking knowledge and entertainment. With a few clicks of the mouse or swipes of the finger, you can learn everything you ever wanted to know about Hamilton Fish. And once you’re done brushing up on that chap’s life, you can read about
Tor seemed like the perfect anti-hacker tool. Shorthand for "the onion router", the Tor network became popular among activists, law enforcement officers, and even ordinary citizens around the world for its ability to cover web surfers' tracks. Essentially, Tor cloaks online data underneath layers of encryption and sends it through a random group of computers
The downsides of technological progress have been well documented in science fiction stories for more than a hundred years now. So why does it feel like we can’t recognize some of these prophesies, even as they stare us in the face? That’s one of the questions being raised by the so-called Internet of Things and