Kirk Goldsberry began to focus on the locations and movement of objects — specifically, the players and the ball. From that perspective, and with the help of some massive new data sets, he could do more than merely quantify what people thought they knew about the game. He could discover hidden truths about hoops, shining light into dark corners that no one even knew were corners.
The pontiff appeared to endorse the theory of the Big Bang and told the gathering at the Vatican that there was no contradiction between believing in God as well as the prevailing scientific theories regarding the expansion of our universe.
We've seen beyond the greasy curtain of fast food and discovered how KFC actually makes fried chicken from the raw animal to the final product that gets put into buckets and double downs at their stores.
It’s candy season, and that means sweets are everywhere. We've learned it’s a lot easier to resist temptation when you’ve got healthy snacks at your fingertips, especially when they're free. No tricks, just treats.
A coalition of security researchers has identified a Chinese cyberespionage group that appears to be the most sophisticated of any publicly known Chinese hacker unit and targets not only U.S. and Western government agencies but also dissidents inside and outside China.
Legendary soccer star and noted asshole Diego Maradona has hit a new low with the leak of a video showing the seemingly drunk Maradona hitting his girlfriend Rocio Oliva. Oliva secretly recorded the attack on her cell phone. Maradona claims he only knocked the phone out of her hands.
Few rock vocalists have been as influential as Janis Joplin. Her soulful, raspy wail moved mountains up until her untimely death at the age of 27 in 1970. In 1967, when she was still with Big Brother and the Holding Company, John Byrne Cook took over as Joplin's road manager and remained a presence in her life until the very end.
Are these real? Fake? Does it matter? Well, yes, it does matter, but it still fun to watch.
Taco Bell went way outside the bun to unveil an advanced mobile app that lets folks order and pay on their smartphones and then walk or drive in and pick up their food.
If you're looking for something great to watch but don't want to sift through a bunch of garbage, may we humbly suggest Digg Video? We think you'll like what you see.
An app that can automatically recognize bird sounds will be launched in time for spring, its creators say.
Expedition expert Ed Stafford survived for 60 days on an uninhabited island. The hardest part didn't happen until he was back home again.
At first this seems like it's not going to work, then it looks like it's going to sever the finger entirely and then, like magic, the ring comes clean off.
The host of this compelling, addictive nonfiction murder-mystery talks about the show's origins and why it's okay to "like" her interviewees.
Now a 25-year-old activist, Kye Allums came out when he was playing on the women’s basketball team at George Washington University in 2010. Today, he travels the country letting students ask questions about what it means to be transgender.
Admission is $30 and all the paintings are fakes, so why are people going?
In a rare public accounting of its mass surveillance program, the United States Postal Service reported that it approved nearly 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies and its own internal inspection unit to secretly monitor the mail of Americans for use in criminal and national security investigations.
Years of running drugs and boosting cars left Frank Bourassa thinking: There's got to be an easier way to earn a dishonest living. That's when he nerved up the idea to make his fortune. (Literally.) Which is how Frank became the most prolific counterfeiter in American history — a guy with more than $200 million in nearly flawless fake twenties stuffed in a garage. How he got away with it all, well, that's even crazier.
As scientists look at crops to find ways to help them deal with climate change stress and growing populations, a tool has emerged to give them a new perspective: the view from underground.
The deal for Ebola.com included a mix of cash and stocks, specifically $150,000 in Cannabis Sativa, Inc. The CEO of that company is none other than former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, the now Libertarian Party provocateur, who in a recent Fox interview suggested that marijuana might — just might! — hold a cure for Ebola.
Next season probably will not be set in a desert. Or in space. But we're not ruling out the possibility.
YouTube is in the early stages of exploring new subscription services, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki told Re/code’s Peter Kafka and Liz Gannes at today’s Code/Mobile conference.
Eric Delwart of the Blood Systems Research Institute in San Francisco and colleagues have found two 700-year-old viral sequences in frozen caribou dung in an arctic ice patch. The researchers isolated part of a viral RNA genome and the complete genome of a DNA virus. They infected living plants with the DNA virus.
A group of passionate archivists are trying to make the Library of Congress the standard-bearer for video game preservation. It won’t be easy.
Surprising no one, the stupidity surrounding ebola continues to run even more rampant than the disease itself.
The theft of endangered and rare flowers has led botanical gardens to go to extreme measures to protect their plants, locking them down with cables and installing CCTV. But is this enough to preserve such species?
A BlackBerry Bold is Kardashian’s ‘heart and soul’ and other phones simply can’t compare, but is she the last of a dying breed?
The greatest joke Fallon ever pulled was making famous people look incredibly silly on television.
Many women say they've received harassing or offensive messages on online dating sites. Will airing the obscene exchanges publicly help?
I'm rich. You're hot.
As we have often been reminded, this was supposed to be a very important election cycle. And yet countless candidates seem determined to tout their fitness for these enormous challenges by trying to out-bumpkin one another.
On a recent afternoon, Hampus Elofsson ended his 40-hour workweek at a Burger King and prepared for a movie and beer with friends. He had paid his rent and all his bills, stashed away some savings, yet still had money for nights out. That is because he earns the equivalent of $20 an hour.
This new gun, which features an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence on the barrel, appears to be a proof-of-concept and demonstration of high-resolution metal printing techniques.
The corkscrew, like so many other inventions, was borne out of necessity. For as long as we have sold wine in glass bottles sealed with cork stoppers, consumers have struggled to easily remove those corks. As soon as the earliest glass bottles arrived in late seventeenth-century England, inventors began dreaming up instruments to ease the removal of corks.
The Ford era is finally over. After a long and rocky reign as the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford was officially displaced last night when former Progressive Conservative leader John Tory won the city's mayoral election.
If you listened hard over the weekend to the chatter around the political theater of detaining a nurse returning from the Ebola zone in a tent with no heat or running water, you might have heard a larger concern expressed. It was this: What happens if this kind of punitive detention — which went far beyond what medical authorities recommend — deters aid workers from going to West Africa to help?
Poitras, an acclaimed filmmaker whose previous works "My Country, My Country" and "The Oath" have tackled various aspects of the post-9/11 world, has been involved with the Snowden story since the very beginning: Indeed, she was the one the former NSA contractor reached out to anonymously with his initial information
What I’m selling is organic, locally sourced and better than anything you’ll find in your normal supermarket. It’s a sack of bees! Angry, excitable bees that you can take home, today!
Both chemist and “semi-recreational” codemonkey, Isaac Yonemoto is running a crowdfunding campaign called Project Marilyn to create open sourced, patent-free cancer drugs.
Perhaps it’s because I’m from a post-boomer generation, but I’ve long been accustomed to Jimi Hendrix getting a great deal of credit as the musician who popularized the afro. But here's the other side of that story.
Rubicon, based in Atlanta, isn’t in the business of hauling waste. It doesn’t own a single truck or landfill.It begins by holding an online bidding process for its clients’ waste contracts, fostering competition among waste management businesses and bringing down their prices.
Although some observers have dubbed the 2014 midterms the “Seinfeld Election”— meaning it’s supposed to be a big show about nothing — in fact this vote reflects something important: the electorate’s fear and anxiety.
The mourning period is a nebulous and tricky thing to navigate in modern life.
It's hard to cast a better clusterfuck — or a worse caricature of Silicon Valley hustle—than what happened to tech investor Jason Calacanis. "Someone hacked my voicemail and changed my outgoing message to get me to invest," he wrote on Instagram yesterday, along with a recording of the new message.
In 1927, Carl Tanzler met the woman of his dreams. Only problem, she was dying, so he fell in love with her corpse instead.
Modern-day athletes often nurse their muscles with supplement shakes orchocolate milk after a workout. Similarly, gladiators, the sports stars of the Roman empire, may have guzzled a drink made from the ashes of charred plants – a rich source of calcium, which is essential for building bones.
Caves are intrinsically mysterious, beautiful places, which of course makes them great places to explore. But they tend to be dark, deep and occasionally dangerous, which means they need various safety features and amenities to be visitor-friendly. The results are sometimes garish, occasionally comical, and often spectacular in their own way.
Even projects crowdfunded to excess enter tense, never-ending development hell.
The core of Amazon’s business — its original reason for being: selling books and other media — has grown wobbly. The problem: many people no longer want to buy stuff. They’d rather rent.
Some are clever, some scary, some unpredictable; most are some combination of all three. That’s what happens when a genre that values the bizarre finds filmmakers forced by limited resources to get imaginative.
How the dating app changed the way single people get together.
The entire cast and crew of the FX spy-comedy series "Archer" sat down to discuss the "Vice" deviation and upcoming sixth season, which will air in January.
If you are going to be killed by a car while riding a bicycle, there’s a good chance you are male, older than 20 and living in California or Florida.
Google will provide real-time satellite imagery to organizations and programs that save lives, protect the environment, promote education and positively impact humanity, according to the official blog post.
When it comes to economic policy, leaders (should) all know to avoid promising really silly policies like dramatically cutting budgets in a recession or overmanipulating exchange rates, but the link between faster gross domestic product growth and most policy choices remains tenuous.
Television networks like TLC and MTV can’t keep mining poor rural Americans for show ideas and then act surprised when their stars implode.
Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg Marra, 26, a Facebook engineer, calculated that it was the kind of thing they might enjoy.
Consumers are just starting to use Apple Pay to make purchases at cash registers and online stores. But Apple representatives have also talked to potential partners about using the technology behind Apple Pay for other sorts of transactions, including building security access and accepting tickets at public transit turnstiles.
This year's "Call of Duty" moves 50 years into the future and gives players a robotic exoskeleton suit so they can run faster, jump higher, tear doors off cars and do things players have never done in the series before. It's a risk five years in the making and the biggest step "Call of Duty" has taken in years. And it started with two friends who couldn't stop making fun of each other.
Data shows that references to Islam in hip-hop lyrics, once pervasive, are at an all-time low — while rappers are talking about Christianity more than ever. Why has rap forsaken one god for another?
A wifi network named “Al Qaeda Free Terror Network” prompted a security scare Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport after a passenger on an American Airlines flight spotted the alarming appellation shortly before the plane was scheduled to depart for London, an airport spokeswoman said.
CurrentC, the product some major retailers are backing instead of Apple Pay, looks like it'll be an incredibly lousy user experience. Why would we expect anything else from Wal-Mart and CVS?
Is this guy okay? Seriously, we're worried about him.
