It’s not nearly as crazy, difficult, expensive, or novel as it may sound. The post New York Is Going to Turn Off Niagara Falls. Here’s How appeared first on WIRED.

The South Korean tech giant sees demand for smartphones "eroding."It's been a rough few days for the tech sector with share prices for most tech stocks plummeting this week. First it was Apple, whose share price is down nearly 7% since announcing on Tuesday it had had the best quarterly results of any public company in the history of the world.Read Full Story

Stacking oranges leads to computer-assisted mathematics. But does it feel like mathematics? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Have you noticed that nobody seems to be talking about the scourge of "used games," anymore? The post Why Nobody’s Complaining About Used Games Anymore appeared first on WIRED.

Pilot programs to repair or recycle furniture show promise but have yet to take hold in the U.S., despite us hitting "peak stuff."Where does an Ikea product go when it approaches the end of its useful life? Maybe Craigslist, or the annual yard sale, or—for the optimistic or guilt-ridden—a storage unit. Probably the worst option of all? The landfill. But Steve Howard, the Scandinavian company's chief sustainability officer, believes in a future where Ikea furniture never really dies at all. Instead, it gets reincarnated.Read Full Story

Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: January 22, 1916 -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Here is a quick introduction to the superposition of electric fields and visualizing the E-field due to a dipole using VPython. The post Use Code to Create Sweet 3-D Visualizations of Electric Fields appeared first on WIRED.