Hyper-minimalist movie poster redesigns are everywhere. They're cool, but they could use a makeover too. Erica Henderson is here to help. The illustrator has been designing her own posters based on the defining moments of her favorite flicks with amazing results.
6:30 pm
An Ingeniously Green School, by Master Architect Steven Holl
Buses aren't particularly attractive. Slab sides and hacked together advertising make them rolling blights in the urban landscape. So what if you could change the design on a whim, provide useful information to travelers, and make some extra scratch for the city? Tad Orlowski's Willie Bus does just that.
Friday, December 13th, 2013
3:00 am
Oculus Raises $75 Million for the VR Goggles of the Future
What is the center of the Bitcoin universe? With a completely decentralized digital currency like Bitcoin, it's hard to say, but today, Silicon Valley took a serious step toward claiming those bragging rights. That's because one of the Valley's most important venture capitalist firms, Andressen Horowitz, made the biggest bet yet on a Bitcoin company, dropping ...
7:10 pm
The NSA Is Coming to Town, So Encrypt for Goodness' Sake
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's getting coal for Christmas. That's according to this video just released by the ACLU portraying Santa as an NSA snoop.
6:37 pm
Tap Your Way Through Holiday Shopping With These Slick Apps
You know what your pet charities want: money. But your friends and family aren't as easy to shop for. Now a few start?ups are trying to make those holiday gift swaps easier?and for them Christmas came early, because investors think this area is a money?maker.
6:52 pm
Huge Credit Card Counterfeiting Ring Bought Lots of Cosmetics
The feds have swooped in on a large and well-organized gang of New York credit card counterfeiters who allegedly shuttled mules around the country to buy $2 million worth of gift cards and other goods for resale, including $30,000 in cosmetics.
The makers of Loop say they've come up with a way to use your phone itself at any point-of-sale terminal where you would otherwise swipe a credit card -- and the merchant behind the counter doesn't have to install any new hardware or software to let you do it.
10:11 pm
With the New Gmail, People Will Know When You Open That Message
Lit Motors is out with a new way to revolutionize schlepping your junk around town, and we got an exclusive crack at putting the Kubo through its paces.
9:35 pm
Titan's Rivers, Lakes, and Seas Mapped in Incredible Detail
Using NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists have created this beautiful mosaic mapping the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan, which is full of rivers, lakes, and seas.
8:48 pm
AOL Tightens CrunchBase's Licensing to Block Competitors
AOL's CrunchBase is changing its Creative Commons licensing scheme and will begin demanding licenses to use the massive high-tech dataset for commercial purposes.
5:00 pm
Highlight's New Vision for Social Networking: Creepy, Magical, and Probably Inevitable
In the coming decade, the internet will be about bringing people together in the real world. Highlight wants to be the social network that rings in this new era.
5:00 pm
IFTTT's Ingenious New Feature: Controlling Apps With Your Location
Today, Instagram announced a new service that allows users to send square, filtered smartphone photos to a private group of friends or a single person.
4:00 pm
200-Kilometer-High Jets of Water Discovered Shooting From Europa
Jupiter's icy moon Europa may be showing us its insides. Data from the Hubble space telescope suggests that enormous plumes of water more than 200 kilometers tall (roughly twice as high as Earth's atmosphere) may be spurting intermittently from the moon's surface.
2:30 pm
How to Complete Your Disney Infinity</cite> Collection Without Going Broke
So here's a guide to what's been released since the launch of Disney Infinity, where you can get it, and how you might be able to save at least some money doing it.
2:30 pm
Protecting Protected Species With High-Tech Barriers
The animals are back. The elephant count in Namibia has risen from under 10,000 around the turn of the millennium to 20,000 today. Lion and leopard populations have doubled since 2004. And cheetahs, once in decline, now speed across the plains here in numbers larger than anywhere else in the world. Which is a big problem. The creatures in Namibia and elsewhere prowl around ever-expanding human settlements, causing trouble, killing livestock, and potentially getting shot. Luckily, there are some high tech (and a few low-tech) ways to keep the animals alive—and out of the way.