Jan Sramek, the CEO behind the controversial California Forever project, appeared at Bloomberg’s annual tech conference in San Francisco on Thursday. He was treated to a not-exactly-amiable discussion with one of the outlet’s reporters, Karen Breslau. For the most part, Sramek tried to keep it together as he was asked…Read more...

This summer much of the American midwest will be subject to the hatching of 13-year cycle Brood XIX and 17-year cycle Brood XII cicadas as an estimated billion plus of the annoying insects jump to life. This monstrous legion will swarm the countryside, largely focused on Illinois, Missouri, and Georgia, with patches…Read more...

Almost all of nature experiences a renewed sense of life once the short days and long nights of wintertime gradually become distant memories. Trees grow their bright green foliage back, flowers bloom, and days mercifully become warmer and longer. Animals come out of hibernation and brumation ready to start fresh, but…Read more...

Since its inception, Bitcoin has captured the attention of countless individuals, which has led to the creation of a bustling cryptocurrency industry. As the crypto industry is new, its terms and jargon are often unfamiliar, which makes it difficult to understand what’s going on in the business.Read more...

The Swiss Army Knife has become such a shorthand for multifunctionality that companies producing does-a-lot-of-stuff wares will often say that their goods are the “Swiss Army Knife” of whatever category they’re a part of. You can use the tool to cut stuff, snip stuff, uncork stuff, file stuff, in some cases download…Read more...

A tokamak in France set a new record in fusion plasma by encasing its reaction in tungsten, a heat-resistant metal that allows physicists to sustain hot plasmas for longer, and at higher energies and densities than carbon tokamaks. Read more...