Heads up Twitch, Facebook just hired gamer Snoopeh for its e-sports division

459,000 years. That’s how long Twitch users spent watching other people play video games last year, and Facebook wants a piece of the pie....

A Smart Bag That Could Be More Useful Than a Smartwatch

Our phones make life easier, but that hasn’t stopped us from creating all kinds of hacks to make them partner better with our brains. We ...

Steinway’s New Piano Can Play a Perfect Concerto by Itself

The black and white keys move so fast it’s hard to tell if Jenny Lin is even touching them. Lin, a classical pianist known for virtuosic ...

A Social Network Designed to Combat Depression

Click to Open Overlay Gallery Social networks aspire to connect people, which is a noble but naive goal. When we uncritically accept ...

Fascinating Maps Isolate America’s Trees, Corn, and Grass

Unless you grew up in the middle of America, it’s hard to fathom just how much of our country is covered in corn. If you’re looking for n...

The Most Epic Demo in Computer History Is Now an Opera

Click to Open Overlay Gallery If there’s such a thing as a Big Bang moment for modern computing, it happened on December 9, 1968. On t...

Rare, Revolutionary Photo Book Is Back in Print

Click to Open Overlay Gallery Sometimes you need to  break the rules . Henri Cartier-Bresson was a legendary rule-breaker, and his di...

Airbnb Raffles Off a Stay in a…Scandinavian Ski Jump?

Something funny happened last fall at a Waterstone’s bookstore in London. On an October night just before 9, Texan David Wills breezed in...

Adobe’s New Brainstorming App for Designers Is Here

The last time we saw  Comp CC, the newest tool in Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite, it was called LayUp, and creator Khoi Vinh had just demoe...

Learn to code iOS 8 apps with this comprehensive course for only $89

Some of the biggest tech news of last year was Apple’s new Swift programming language. If you’d like to get to grips with iOS 8 developme...

How to leverage Web APIs in your business

Manfred ( @ManfredBo ) is API Market Development Director at 3scale – delivering API Management solutions ( @3scale on Twitter). Vanessa ...

React Native allows you to build native iOS apps with Javascript, now open to all

Facebook announced today that its React Native library is now available on Github . The library allows you to build native iOS and Android ...

Soon, astronauts may be able to enjoy a cocktail like the rest of us

Astronauts hoping to sip drinks in style may soon have an open-top cocktail glass to look forward to. Called the Zero Gravity Cocktail Pr...

Volvo's glowing bike spray lights up nighttime cyclists

For thousands of cyclists, navigating the roads at night requires an almost prescient sense of awareness. To tackle the problem, Volvo ...

Sorry Einstein, 'spooky' quantum entanglement is real

Quantum mechanics is one of the best-tested theories in science, and it's one of the few where physicists get to do experiments prov...

These Hand-Drawn Postcards Are a Data-Viz Dream

A day is more than a matter of hours, minutes and seconds. It’s subway rides taken, text messages sent, slices of pizza eaten, hours of N...

An Android Keyboard for People Too Lazy to Type LOL

Click to Open Overlay Gallery When it comes to text-based communication tools, we’re experiencing a kind of Cambrian Explosion. Emoji has ...

Go Behind the Scenes of Mad Men’s Exquisite Set Design

When Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce moved into its new offices in the Time Life Building, the year was 1964. Herman Miller was the go-to fu...

What if We Could Design Wearables Right on Our Skin?

Scan the crowded wearables market, and you’ll find a wild buffet of options. There are gizmos that wean you off cigarettes and monitor yo...