Multiple news outlets—*raises hand*—reported yesterday that AOL planned to kill off its AIM messaging platform. Today, the company has responded with a strongly-worded, albeit off-the-record, "Nuh-uh, not us." More »
SXSW, the annual vanity carnival of schmoozing, marketing superficiality, and BBQ, has something new to offer Austin's visitors: unalloyed human degradation. A New York ad firm has converted homeless people into 4G hotspots. More »
For time trial riders, even a fraction of a second can mean the difference between missing the podium and donning the yellow jersey. The 2013 Scott Spilt Aero Helmet has been designed to shield your noggin without slowing you down—like, at all. More »
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has created this image to illustrate the size of a neutron star, the "crushed core of a star that has exploded as a supernova" and packs half a million times the mass of Earth. More »
Smoke rings from a toy gun don't do much more than entertain a child. But by giving them an electrical charge, a company called Battelle has discovered a way to make them more useful for firefighting and even crowd control. More »
