ENDGAME: “As intriguing as it is ambitious”

from The San Jose Mercury News With Endgame: Proving Ground, Google’s Niantic Labs aims to improve on Ingress formula by Gieson Cacho Google’s Niantic Labs specializes in video games that revolve around the real world. It’s a heady space that mixes elements of...

Gene Gene The Dancing Machine Gone

from The Hollywood Reporter Gene Patton, Gene Gene the Dancing Machine From ‘The Gong Show,’ Dies at 82 Gene Patton, the NBC stagehand in Burbank who stole the spotlight as Gene Gene the Dancing Machine on NBC’s wacky The Gong Show, died Monday, his family...

Why Pi Matters

from The New Yorker Why Pi Matters BY STEVEN STROGATZ The beauty of pi, in part, is that it puts infinity within reach. CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY JEFFREY COOLIDGE / GETTY Every March 14th, mathematicians like me are prodded out of our burrows like Punxsutawney Phil on...

Why Pacquiao-Mayweather Matters

from The New Yorker How Much Does Pacquiao-Mayweather Matter? BY KELEFA SANNEH Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY ESTHER LIN/SHOWTIME® In a humid boxing gym in Hollywood on Tuesday, members of the sports media outnumbered world-class boxers by...

Mining The Moon

from CNBC Billionaire teams up with NASA to mine the moon by Susan Caminiti Source: MoonExpress Moon Express, a Mountain View, California-based company that’s aiming to send the first commercial robotic spacecraft to the moon next year, just took another step...