New York City is transitioning its 250,000 street lights to energy-efficient LEDs in an upgrade that should be completed by 2017. CBS reports that Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the timeframe today, noting that the upgraded lights will save city taxpayers around $14 million a year once the transition is complete.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the differences between bourbon and whisky (or whiskey, as many of you probably know it).

Wearable devices seem to be the hot favorite of manufacturers. After the Google Glass, it is time for the Samsung Spectacles.

With the abundance of hashtags we see on social media, it's almost impossible to remember how they all got started. If you forget, the # symbol starting out representing a number, or at least the battleground for an epic match of Tic Tac Toe. Soon after, we started using the character to help our music…

With Apple’s latest product announcements, its devices have continued their evolution toward being little more than touchable displays attached to batteries.

Today we updated Snapzu to version 4.1. This included an overhaul of the text and comment formatting system, addition of related links module to native snaps, several minor graphical and functionality updates, and the fixing of a few minor bugs.

It is hard to imagine, but there was once a time when cars didn’t come equipped with rearview mirrors. In fact, it wasn’t until 1916 that the simple, yet game-changing invention became standard, making it easy for drivers to safely weave through traffic—except, of course, in those situations when they’re stuck behind a slow moving cargo truck on a two-lane road.

The government may finally be on a path to reopening, but the shutdown’s effects will linger for scientists studying everything from climate change to cancer. Antarctica-bound field researchers stuck in budget limbo over the past three weeks fret that decades of data on penguins and ice sheets will end up with a glaring gap, undercutting their documentation of global warming.

A 300-year drought may have caused the fall of the great Mediterranean civilizations, including ancient Greece and the Hittite Empire, during the late Bronze Age, new research suggests.

Do you even lift, Bro? An infographic about lift and how as a force, directly opposes weight. Check out our stats on a Sharknado!

The launch of the iPhone 5S has raised the anxiety about the newly announced gadget from Apple, iWatch. With the M7 coprocessor, the device will be able to track the motion of the user, whether he ...

Still waiting for Bitcoin to be accepted at Amazon and eBay? Forget it. Bitcoin will power the next generation of corporations and the only way to deal with those corporations will be through Bitcoin (that’s right, they won’t, or rather can’t, accept fiat like US Dollar). These ideas may seem futuristic, but they are not more than 5 years away, maybe 10.

Smart buildings, smarter schools, and a parking system that's actually driver-friendly.

Grand Canyon during monsoon season. The storm was intense and the fog created an unbelievably dramatic and dark atmosphere. Lightning provided the perfect accent to the ominous landscape.

A new study shows that human beings are too selfish to endure present pain to avert future climate change. That's why we need win-win solutions now

Since a smartphone is such an attractor for thieves, what if you couldn’t sell a used one without proof of ownership? That’s the idea behind a new bill introduced Friday in the New York State Legislature.

Google has published a video (Homeward Bound) and a post about how Google Earth reunited an Indian Man with his family after 26 years.

A few weeks ago my team at Mulesoft created a video describing what it’s like to be a developer at the company, and I noted in the video how developers are like artists. In response, I received numerous questions and comments about it being an interesting metaphor and requests to elaborate on the concept.

The finalists for the 2014 Green Car of the Year award, sponsored by the Green Car Journal, was announced Thursday. The eventual winner be announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November.

Robots armed with automatic weapons, anti-tank missiles and even grenade launchers are marching, er, rolling ever closer to the battlefield now that they've shown they can actually hit what they're supposed to.

“You don’t see a deer bringing up raccoons or a bison deciding to raise a baby wolf. No other animals take in, nurture and protect members of other species.”

It was one of candidate Obama’s most vivid and concrete campaign promises. Forget about high minded (some might say high sounding) but gauzy promises of hope and change. This candidate solemnly pledged on June 5, 2008: “In an Obama administration, we’ll lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year….. We’ll do it by the end of my first term as President of the United States.”

This is an overview of the Liftware spoon (www.liftlabsdesign.com), an actively stabilized spoon that can help people with Essential Tremor and Parkinson's.

The speculation ends: Mars rover Curiosity has positively identified hundreds of meteorites found all over the Earth as Martians.

After up to 10 hours of standing with virtually no breaks and no real nourishment, there are generally two options for a famished team of chefs, cooks, waiters, bussers, porters and everyone else it takes to run a restaurant.

I used to love Facebook. When I first signed up back in 2004, I was all about it. I could find old classmates, quickly share a funny link with my buddies, and generally stay connected in a way I’d never experienced before. It only got better when they rolled out the mobile version. Then something happened.

IBM has unveiled a prototype of a new brain-inspired computer powered by what it calls "electronic blood".

A new survey from Intel making the rounds today is being touted with headlines about how young adults say technology is dehumanizing. And there is one line from the press release describing the findings of the survey that supports that characterization: "A majority of millennials agree that technology makes people less human and that society relies on technology too much."

Is Apple's iPhone 5C a failure? Sales look low compared with the iPhone 5S, and its price is being slashed.

An ongoing debate about the quality of outsourced code prompts a look at the country’s precarious economic and educational picture.