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Nothing But Net (And Ads) The rise of the ad-sponsored dial-up ISP, offers some useful lessons on promising too much in the age of MoviePass. Good luck getting rid of that ad. August 8, 2018 at 10:02PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2AT08gm

Something Digs Intricate Tunnels in Garnets. Is It Alive? The deep red gems have long been found marred with internal markings. Researchers propose a new explanation involving fungal microorganisms who have found a nice place to live. August 8, 2018 at 10:02PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OV8mrl

A Gentleman's Guide To Flirting On Instagram While it can be admittedly dicey, there are certain ways to acknowledge a hot pic — and navigate Instagram more broadly — that are neither creepy nor suspect and might actually result in an IRL date/hookup. August 8, 2018 at 08:52PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Om58Mi

It’s Time To Bring Back 'Icing' Remember the glorious heyday of ‘Bros Icing Bros’? We’ve arrived at the perfect moment for a Smirnoff alcopop renaissance. August 8, 2018 at 08:02PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2KE8MyR

The Cutthroat World of Orthodontic Invisible Aligner Startups August 8, 2018 at 07:22PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OTQdKs

It’s Time To Admit That Iceberg Is A Superior Lettuce Like its glacial namesake, iceberg lettuce has a lot more going on beneath the surface. August 8, 2018 at 07:17PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2nmuG0t

The Twilight Of The Celebrity Chef Having a name like Gordon Ramsay or Emeril Lagasse on a restaurant once was a recipe for success. But rising rents and changing consumer tastes have taken a toll. August 8, 2018 at 06:17PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2ATTAhv

The $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life With Diabetes DIYers used a security flaw to bypass the $8.3 billion insulin delivery business with a cobbled-together artificial pancreas. August 8, 2018 at 06:17PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vtPqbh

What FiveThirtyEight's Readers Found In 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets Some of them found ways to improve the data set. We’ve already incorporated a number of those suggestions, and we brought several of them to the attention of the researchers. And some readers made a lot of cool stuff. August 8, 2018 at 06:17PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2M7cJBS

The Fight Against Google’s Smart City "The smart city industry is a Trojan horse for technology companies. They come in under the guise of environmentalism and improving quality of life, but they’re here for money." August 8, 2018 at 06:07PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2AQ3gtG

The Great Train Robbery of 1963 It's been called "the heist of the century": In the early morning hours of August 8, 1963, a gang of 15 masked men robbed a Royal Mail train on its route from Glasgow to London. The bandits made off with £2.6 million — today's equivalent of $53.3 million. August 8, 2018 at 06:02PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vKfi1C

Why ‘Eighth Grade’ Is the Best Parenting Movie of the Last Decade It might not help you get your teenager off their phone, but it will make you feel better August 8, 2018 at 05:32PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vt4jKO

War Without End The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another. August 8, 2018 at 05:22PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vP2EP8

These Twenty-Somethings Got Heart Transplants On The Very Same Day. And Then They Fell In Love Taylor Givens and Collin Kobelja had heart transplants in the same hospital on the same day. That wasn’t the most unlikely part of their story. August 8, 2018 at 04:52PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2KDAUCd

How China Could Beat The West In The Deadly Race For AI Weapons "These naive hippy developers from Silicon Valley don't understand – the CIA should force them." August 8, 2018 at 04:32PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vSEiUw

Inside the Very Big, Very Controversial Business of Dog Cloning Barbra Streisand is not alone. At a South Korean laboratory, a once-disgraced doctor is replicating hundreds of deceased pets for the rich and famous. It's made for more than a few questions of bioethics. August 8, 2018 at 04:07PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2nlnUrS

Who Rents Their Home In America? Here's What The Data Says Many homeownership trends have remained largely the same since 1960 — with a few noteworthy shifts. August 8, 2018 at 04:07PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2KFdNr7

GOP Congressman Chris Collins Arrested On Insider Trading Charges New York Republican Rep. Chris Collins has been charged with securities fraud, wire fraud and false statements, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. Collins, who was the first sitting member of Congress to endorse Trump's presidential bid, surrendered this morning at his attorney's office in Manhattan, according to the FBI. August 8, 2018 at 03:02PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2AOi9MS

Here's A Moose Just Strolling Down The Median On An Alaskan Road The big guy is not amused by your stereotypical Alaska jokes. August 8, 2018 at 02:17PM Continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_source=ifttt&v=zrPhYIPFHrc

Why Some People Stay Motivated in the Face of Near-Certain Defeat It's all about knowing you tried. August 8, 2018 at 01:47PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2AT0zYl

When Bots Teach Themselves To Cheat Moments when experimental bots go rogue — some would call it cheating — are not typically celebrated in scientific papers or press releases. August 8, 2018 at 01:42PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2M9xrjQ

My Lifelong Quest for Pants That Actually Fit August 8, 2018 at 01:22PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2KydH4B

Inside Magic Leap’s Quest To Remake Itself As An Ordinary Company (With a Real Product) In retrospect, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz realizes that all the hype was a big mistake. "I think we were arrogant," he says. August 8, 2018 at 01:17PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2AS4SmC

What It’s Like To Wallow In Your Own Facebook Data For the past 13 years, I’ve given the platform my photos, my videos, my likes, and untold hours of my time. Sifting through it all was amusing and surprising—and weirdly sad. August 8, 2018 at 01:17PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OU3WRp

The Rubik's Cube, The Most Popular Toy Ever, Gets Redesigned The GoCube, a reimagined Rubik’s cube that its creator calls a “FitBit for cubers,” has already raised almost a million dollars on Kickstarter. August 8, 2018 at 01:07PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vrc8AI

The Shadow Rulers of the VA How Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter and two other Mar-a-Lago cronies are secretly shaping the Trump administration's veterans policies. August 8, 2018 at 12:12PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vQkxwK