UPS Delivery Drones

The passing of a political hero, growing crops on the moon and the color of 2014 in this week's look at the web

As some may have expected, UPS is too in the process of developing delivery drones to compete with Amazon’s future Prime Air service. Sources close to the company say the world’s largest parcel service has been working on the idea of drones for some time. However, only time will tell how the legality and availability of both projects pan out.

Moon Plants

The passing of a political hero, growing crops on the moon and the color of 2014 in this week's look at the web

A figment of science fiction and imagination for countless years, it seems humans living on the moon is a genuine possibility. And, as a step towards that reality, NASA will be planting basil, turnips and other flowering plants on the moon’s surface in 2015. The thought process behind the experiment is, “If we send plants and they thrive, then we probably can.” The plants will …

The Artful Accidents of Google Books

The passing of a political hero, growing crops on the moon and the color of 2014 in this week's look at the web

As millions of pages are rapidly scanned into Google Books and made searchable to the public, interesting anomalies occur—the physical book’s history, such as tobacco stains or handwritten notes, end up being preserved online, along with glitches that occur during the scanning process, like the hand of the scanner operator covering a page. These “mistakes” have been collected in Tumblrs, used in new media art …