quote [ I had always wanted one of these as a kid and I was like "Hey, can't I make one?" it took forever and it was expensive (I don't know the final tally but way cheaper than buying a completed one) and every time I see it I can't believe I made the flip'n thing. ]

quote [ Ethereum is more than just digital cash. It's also a decentralized computing platform—and developers are all over it. ]

quote [ Hello, and welcome to a very special edition of Will It Sous Vide?, the column where I usually make whatever you want me to with my immersion circulator. Not only are we finally cooking a long-requested dish—porchetta di testa—but we, as you can see, have video. ]

quote [ a group of researchers from the University of Washington has shown for the first time that it’s possible to encode malicious software into physical strands of DNA, so that when a gene sequencer analyzes it the resulting data becomes a program that corrupts gene-sequencing software and takes control of the underlying computer. ]

quote [ A bot that beat StarCraft would be much more impressive than mastering the board game Go.

Google’s DeepMind is taking on the multiplayer space-war videogame StarCraft II. ]

quote [ After 2 years of waiting, it’s finally going to happen: giant robots from Japan and America will engage in Solaris-style combat to determine which nation is the greatest ‘Mech builder on Earth.You may remember from our previous articles on current technologies that mimic those in BattleTech that M ]

quote [ But there’s no denying that the energy in the Democratic Party is currently with the far left, as evidenced by the single-payer advocates who gave Feinstein so much trouble at a town hall meeting in April. For all her accomplishments, Feinstein’s claim that she’s a liberal is not entirely accurate. ]

quote [ Chances are good that at some point you've seen a video created by Fatal Farm. They're a duo of FX wizards who specialize in subversion and surrealism, and whose work is as hilarious as it is head-sc ]

quote [ A few years ago in New York, Al Pacino starred in a revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, and the casting was poignant: In 1992, a much younger and more vigorous Pacino had played the role of hotshot salesman Ricky Roma in the film adaptation of the play; in the Broadway revival, a 72-year-old Pacino played the broken-down has-been Shelley Levene.


Glengarry Glen Ross is the Macbeth of real estate, full of great, blistering lines and soliloquies so liberally peppered with profanity that the original cast had nicknamed the show “Death of a F***ing Salesman.” But a few of those attending the New York revival left disappointed ... ]

quote [ All across America, hardened criminals are donning the cloaks of elves and slaying dragons all in orange jumpsuits, under blazing fluorescent lights and behind bars. We meet with two former cellmates in who played D&D together in maximum security pri ]