This instrument turns the hum of your electronics into music
The jet-engine whine of a hairdryer is a sound most people run from. But listen to the right frequencies, Alexandra Fierra says, and something else surfaces: motion, rhythms that shift…
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Make a plan for your digital photos after you die
It’s not something anyone really wants to think about, but what happens to those thousands of digital photos on your phone in the event of your passing? Few of us…
How do garbage trucks work?
Week after week, like clockwork, your trash seems to vanish into thin air: Set the bin on the curb before bed and, by morning, it’s empty. In reality, an entire…
SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight
SpaceX was more than lucky Friday, sending its 13th full-scale Starship test flight halfway around the world from South Texas to an on-target, intact splashdown in a remote section of…
This free AI music detector will scan through your playlists for audio slop
We know that generative AI models are now smart enough to produce images, videos, text, and audio that—most of the time—can convincingly pass for something created by a human. These…
With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience
Giovanni Kanter goes to at least one art museum whenever he visits a new city. That’s on top of his regular exploration of galleries in New York, where the 25-year-old…
Man builds DIY train station departure board
There’s something oddly calming about gazing up at a train station departure board. Maybe it’s the pixelated glow from the lights, the regularly revolving stream of information, or the knowledge…
2 million cars at risk of sneaky Bluetooth hack that unlocks doors
A security vulnerability affecting at least two million vehicles on the road today is so serious that some cybersecurity experts are calling it one of the worst car-hacking threats in…
How many hot dogs could fit inside the world’s largest hot dog sculpture? We did the math.
After two long years, the world’s largest hot dog has made its triumphant return to New York City. Hot Dog: The Second Serving is now on display in Duffy Square,…
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer
A couple of decades after the discovery of systems that could selectively target DNA, we’re starting to see the first therapies based on gene editing. One challenge these developments have…