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May 30, 2014
How a Giant Plus-Shaped Pool Could Make New York's East River Safe For Swimmers
+Pool's goal is to create the largest community swimming pool in New York.
As the heat of summer approaches, you might be seeking a refreshing dip in a local pool, pond, lake, or river, but jumping in to New York's East River is probably not at the top of your list. However, designers Jeffrey Franklin, Archie Coates, and architect Dong-Ping Wong are working on a project called +Pool, a giant plus-shaped pool that filters river water to create safe, clean water, that everyone can enjoy. They have raised over $300,000 on Kickstarter, but to get this giant plus-shaped floating pool in the contaminated waterway is no easy task.
NASA Designs The Next Phase Of Mars Exploration
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory readies the next phase of Mars exploration through innovative technologies and innovative designs to land increasingly larger objects there.
While the rest of the world was still marveling at the Curiosity landing on Mars two years ago, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was already working on ways to safely land even larger vehicles there.
Can Governments Get Economic Data From People On The Street?
A new Google- and Andreessen-backed startup thinks it can rapidly accelerate the collection of price and inflation indicators, giving policy-makers data in almost real time. Here's how.
This story contains interviews with David Soloff, CEO of Premise.
TwoDots Will Probably Ruin Your Life
Betawork's sequel to one of the most viral mobile games of 2013 is here. And it's ready to consume you.
Move over Candy Crush Saga, there's a new relationship-destroying, deceptively wallet draining, and outright addictive mobile app in town.
The Quantified Smoker: This E-Cigarette Tracks Your Puffs
For self-tracking smokers: The Smokio is billed as a device to help people who want to quit lighting up.
There are plenty of apps and devices to encourage good habits. How about one of the worst habits of all? For those who want to quit smoking but just can't go cold turkey, e-cigarettes are now the latest and greatest self-tracking device.
A Mesmerizing Light Sculpture Modeled After Schools Of Fish
350,000 LEDs riff off the physics of fish swimming.
If you're at Heathrow airport and you're keen on a decadent $200 lunch at Caviar House & Prunier, you now have more to look at than the perfectly toasted blinis. The restaurant commissioned Cinimod Studio to create this terrific sculpture, Emergence, whose glowing LEDs spiral 43 feet up towards the ceiling.
May 29, 2014
LeVar Burton Raises $2 Million On Kickstarter, Hosts Heartwarming Reddit AMA To Support "Reading Rainbow"
The day after fully funding a Reading Rainbow reboot on Kickstarter, the ultralovable host and actor made fans' dreams come true on Reddit.
Reading Rainbow host, Star Trek and Roots star, and wonderful human LeVar Burton launched a Kickstarter yesterday to bring back the groundbreaking kids' literacy show as an enormous online library of interactive books and video field trips. In 11 hours, he reached his $1 million goal, and surpassed the $2 million mark Thursday afternoon as thousands of dollars rolled in with each passing second. The project has nearly 45,000 backers and many of the highest-ticket packages have already sold out.
"Shave The Stache": Lyft And Uber Turn To Mobile Billboards To Recruit Drivers
It's no secret there's some bad blood among the major ridesharing players.
As Lyft and Uber scale their e-hailing operations, they're focusing much of their efforts on recruitment--or, more accurately, poaching. In San Francisco, the transportation wars have taken to the streets with mobile billboards. What better way to get drivers' attention--especially if they're parked outside the rival's office?
A No-Nonsense Explanation Of IEX, The Exchange Fighting High-Frequency Trading
You saw them on 60 Minutes. We see them every day as our upstairs neighbors in 7 World Trade Center here in New York. So we asked for an elevator pitch: How exactly do high-frequency trades screw over everyday investors?
In the late 2000s, Wall Street stock traders encountered a puzzling problem: Large blocks of available stocks would "disappear" upon purchase, but then reappear at slightly higher prices, ready to be bought. This happened repeatedly, to the point where it took several clicks, several seconds, and several thousand dollars more to complete a large trade. As the money added up over time, this mystery became more inconvenience than oddity.
Following Discovery Of Heartbleed Bug, OpenSSL Will Undergo Security Audit
Funding from the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative arm will also add two full-time engineers to the open-source security project.
The Linux Foundation announced Thursday that it will distribute funding from new backers to perform a security audit on OpenSSL's code base and add two full-time core engineers to the open-source security project. Last month, security researchers discovered a catastrophic two-year-old bug called Heartbleed in the encryption protocol that affected two-thirds of the Internet's websites.
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