Bill Gates, chicken farmer? The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist says in a blog post that investing in poultry would his first...
What Bill Gates would do if he were living on $2 a day
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Bring an “escape room” into your living room… for $22
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Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage right here—and let us know what you think.
Who knew being locked in a room would become so popular?
"Escape rooms" are so hot that even my sleepy Chicago...
Enough of this console nonsense: It’s time to put a gaming PC in my living room
Way back at the beginning of 2015 I tasked myself with building a gaming PC for the living room. 12 months later and finally—after coming to work for Ars, travelling halfway around the world a few times over, and patiently waiting for someone to release a console-like case that didn't suck—it is done.
As is usually the case...
Living Ink updates invisible messages with morphing algae for Kickstarter project
Remember invisible ink? You could write a secret message with the stuff, watch your words disappear, then make them magically reappear by holding the message over a heat source. The basic idea goes back to ancient times, but now...
Geek of the Week: Avvo’s Justin Weiss says making software is ‘like getting to solve puzzles for a living’
Avvo software development director Justin Weiss still remembers the days when the legal advice company — where he’s worked for the past eight years — still had that new startup smell. That was back before the company saw its headcount double to...
Geek of the Week: Avvo’s Justin Weiss says software development is ‘like getting to solve puzzles for a living’
Avvo software development director Justin Weiss still remembers the days when the legal advice company — where he’s worked for the past eight years — still had that new startup smell. That was back before the company saw its headcount double to...
Holometer finds no evidence we’re living in a Matrix-like hologram … so far
Is our universe a two-dimensional hologram? It sounds like science fiction straight from “The Matrix,” but scientists are checking out the hypothesis for real. So far, the answer is no. The experiments are being conducted at Fermilab in Illinois, using a gnarly-looking device known as the Holometer. The apparatus is designed to measure the smoothness of spacetime at...
Go inside Paul Allen’s Living Computer Museum with this 3D virtual tour
Those who may not be able to make a physical trip to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Living Computer Museum in Seattle are in for a treat — you can take a 3D virtual tour of the facility instead. The 3D virtual tour just went live, capturing the inside of the museum that...