Hiking for Emails in Nepal, How Steam Controllers Are Made, and More

It's Saturday morning. You're probably hung over. Even if you're not, you're probably still in bed, looking at your phone, trying to decide if you'll get up in time for breakfast, brunch, or just go into full weekend mode and skip right to lunch.

It's cool. You can stay in bed a little longer. It's comfortable! But let's make this lounging time a little productive and entertaining by going over some of the coolest, most interesting stories we saw this last week.

Hiking for Emails

Director Clemens Purner released a great short documentary this week about Mahabir Pun, a man in the Annapurna region in Nepal who's bringing internet access to communities that previously could only access it after several days of travel on foot.

How It's Made: Steam Controllers

Game developer Valve wanted to change how we play PC games in the living room this year by releasing the Steam controller, which uses haptics and touch pads to replace the mouse. It's not the best replacement, but this week the company outlined how it plans to improve it, and with that update it also released the cool video above, which shows the controller's manufacturing process.

The Big Satoshi Nakamoto News This Week Seems Like a Hoax

On Tuesday, both Wired and Gizmodo dropped a big bombshell: According to documents the publications obtained, the real Satoshi Nakamoto is some person you never heard of called Craig Steven Wright. However, Motherboard's Sarah Jeong found that a key piece of evidence cited by both publication, the PGP key associated with Satoshi, were probably faked.

Why Does Alt+F4 Quit Out of Everything?

Why not, say, Alt+Q? There's actually a very good reason.

This Scientist Inject Himself with 35 Million-Year-Old Bacteria

What happened next probably won't shock you, but it's really interesting!

How 3G Will Change Palestine

Did you know that Israel has banned 3G networks in the West Bank and Gaza? If Palestinians want a 3G phone, they have to pay an Israeli network, and because these Israeli companies don't pay taxes to the Palestinian Authority government, Palestine misses out on about $60 million a year in lost revenue, according to a 2008 report by the World Bank.

But Palestine will start getting its own 3G networks in 2016, and that's going to have a huge impact on the people who live there.

One Year as a Long-Haul Trucker

Robert Langellier of Esquire spent a year as a long-haul trucker to pay off his student loans. He's under 49 years old, which makes him trucking's next generation, and with autonomous trucks on the horizon, he may be the last.