One of the world's tiniest frogs has been discovered in Borneo. At 10-12 mm long, Microhyla nepenthicola may be micro, but its croak is loud. That's how researchers found them, swimming in tiny puddles of water captured by pitcher plants. More »
Imagine a public eye scanner that can identify 50 people per minute, in motion. Now imagine that the government install these scanner systems all across an entire city. Or don't imagine it, because it's already happening, right now.
The City of Leon, Mexico, is doing exactly that, installing real time iris scanners from biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers Inc. These retinal scanners don'...
This is the Stone House , a home built in the middle of the Fafe Mountains, in Portugal, rising in the middle of a wind farm. It uses two gigantic granite stones for its main structure, linked with a concrete mix. More »
Ever wondered what getting a doctorate really means? Matt Might, professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah, explains it perfectly in this graphic presentation that starts with a simple circle. More »
Web site YouSwear teaches you to swear in over 200 languages, from Afrikaans to Yiddish to Firefly .
Bill Gates predicts that the best education will come from the web in five years, but YouSwear demonstrates how nearly everything worth learning is already available on the internet anyway. Click on any language in the site's sidebar to browse through user-submitted swears (the accuracy of...
"Bandwidth" really means time or people. "Get down in the weeds" is the goofy way of asking to focus on details, and " Preso ," well, it's just cringe-inducing. Web directory Unsuck It pulls off such management-to-actual-human translations with clarity and sometimes hilarity. More »
From Facebook to Twitter to Digg to Tumblr to Myspace... this is the map of the fantabolous planet of the social networks , down to the last republic, kingdom and empire. The geographic area indicates the estimated number of users. More »
While web site Jailbreakme.com offers a one-click jailbreak for your iOS devices via mobile Safari, it also exposes a major security vulnerability. As it turns out, jailbreaking your iDevice may provide additional security options that make jailbreaking a more secure option. Because jailbreakme is able to function through a PDF vulnerability in iOS and can be easily adapted for malicious atta...
Got a Droid and can't wait for Verizon to push out the over-the-air Android 2.2 Froyo update to your phone? All-things-Android blog Android Central details how to update your Droid to the official ROM without twiddling your thumbs, waiting for the update to push out on its own. (No rooting or anything fancy required.) [ Android Central via @willsmith ] More »
Twelve millennia of selective breeding have created hundreds of distinct dog breeds, yet they're still all one species - even a chihuahua and Great Dane could successfully interbreed. But all those physical changes have deeply altered how dogs' brains work. More »
Have you ever wondered which starship would prevail in a knock-down, drag-out space battle? The "Starship Smackdown" is a Comic Con institution, and we were able to marvel at the geeky knowledge and fannish quips from the celebrity panelists. More »
Our dear Jason Chen 's been nominated for T3's Gadget Person of the Year award, but he's too shy to tell everyone. So I'm doing it for him! Say congratulations to Jason and go vote for him or his fellow nominees. More »
At the Visionaries panel at Comic Con Joss Whedon announced that he is officially directing The Avengers , "Because Marvel can't afford the press release."
As for how he's thinking of approaching the movie, Joss had this to say: