Tennessee man uses lasers to make the world’s thinnest car
A YouTuber armed with a 1988 Ford Festiva and a workshop full of lasers may have created the world’s...
Author : Cathy Klein
Promising browser extension wants to save you from password hell
Is there any real solution to the nightmare of online password management in an era of increasingly clever hacks,...
In 1934, Chrysler bet big on teardrop-shaped cars
From the start, cars were built wrong. At least, that’s what Chrysler’s head of automotive research, Carl Breer, thought...
A chunky digital cat is here to help you stop doomscrolling
Every day, the average American spends nearly 2.5 hours scrolling through social media. Cats, on the other hand, waste...
Do humanoids dream of becoming human?
Stories of human-like dolls yearning to become real people turn up everywhere. Pinocchio wants to be a real boy....
NYC deploys surveillance tech to catch fake airport cabbies
New York’s Port Authority police are reportedly leaning on new digital surveillance tactics to crack down on unlicensed taxi...
2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck unlocks mysteries of how ships were built and repaired
About 2,200 years ago, a Roman Republic ship sank off the coast of modern-day Croatia, with wood and amphorae...
Fastest comet ever recorded spewed 70 Olympic pools’ worth of water daily
Astronomers knew 3I/ATLAS wasn’t a local comet not long after first spotting it in July 2025. As only the...
This shoe is made entirely from mushroom ‘brains’
The fashion industry is ecologically tacky, to put it mildly. Textile manufacturers guzzle around 200 million liters of water...
Does deleting social media make you happier or lonelier? Short answer: It depends.
Logging on was once a conscious—even perilous—act; a series of button pushes and clicks that, in the old dial-up...