US skydiver jumps without parachute into net from 25,000ft

American Luke Aikins has become the first person to jump from 25,000 ft (7,620m) without a parachute, landing safely in a...

How tennis balls are made?

I’ve held a few tennis balls in my life, even though I don’t play. They’re nice objects — round, bouncy and fluorescent...

Microsoft Adds Windows 10 Countdown Timer: Free Upgrades End On Friday

Microsoft has started an ominous countdown timer on many Windows 7 and Windows 8 systems, highlighting the fact that upgrading for...

Google Maps is gaining a Wifi-only mode

Cellular data can be expensive and Wi-Fi is often free. Thankfully it seems Google Maps will soon work on just Wi-Fi....

Prisma is now available to everyone on Android

Prisma, the turn-your-photos-into-paintings app that’s been blowing up over the past few weeks, is now launching on Android in full form....

The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule

When programmers at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory set out to develop the flight software for the Apollo 11 space program in...

The problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s your broken idea of fairness

The truth is, life is just playing by different rules. The real rules are there. They actually make sense. But they’re...

Download almost every scientific paper for free

Google Scholar is a great source for every student or researcher to find some infos about the domain they are working...

Working with large numbers [Android]

A couple of years ago I developed an app that was click based with text and what you had to do...

Hex Editor on OS X [vim]

Today I was playing with Spotify and while I was browsing the Cache folders, I found out that the content of...