If I had a time machine, I’d be an amazing artist

There are two remarkably amazing things about NASA lately: first off, the Stardust mission. Can you imagine the incredible amount of engineering and math that make it possible to launch a probe from Earth, rendezvous  [more...]

The fine folks who brought you MP3 — the Fraunhofer Institute — have now come up with multichannel MP3, bringing surround sound to the format. You can download a time-restricted evaluation of the new encoder  [more...]