Obama Finally Gets His Own Twitter Account

Six years into his run as the 44th President of the United States of America, President Barack Obama has finally launched his own Twitter account. The president isn’t new to tweeting though, as he’s previously posted messages to his staff-managed account @BarackObama. But with his new handle @POTUS, Obama is taking full control of his own retweets and favs. The new account is meant to …

Compiling Public Photos into Time-Lapses

Millions of photos are taken each and every day—many of them coming from the same scenic points at popular tourist attractions—and now, a team of developers from Google and the University of Washington have found a way to put those obligatory shots to use: through time-lapse imagery. By scanning image databases like Flickr and Picasa, the researchers were able to sort thousands of images by …

Pratt Institute’s Cat-Loving Chief Engineer

79-year-old Conrad Milster has been keeping Pratt Institute up and running since 1958. As the university’s chief engineer, he’s in charge of maintaining the steam engines that provide heat and hot water to the school. Aside from being a master of his craft, Milster is a proud Brooklynite, cat person and collector of anything old—including VHS tapes, books and outdated mechanical machines. As Milster ponders …