Here's something you don't see every day: An ultra-HD time-lapse of Earth, as seen in infrared.
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Saturday, January 31, 2015
Planet Earth In Infrared, At 4k Resolution
Here's something you don't see every day: An ultra-HD time-lapse of Earth, as seen in infrared.
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Quantum computer makes finding new physics more difficult
How quantum computers are making sure physics work. Physicists often work unusual hours. You will find them running experiments at 4am and 10pm.
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Friday, January 30, 2015
F-35 gets turned into popsicle by giant fridge
Cool photo of Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II undergoing tests in extreme freezing weather conditions. An F-35B from the F-35 Patuxent River Integrated Test Force in Maryland has undergone rigorous climatic testing at the U.S.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015
HTML5 replaces Flash as default player on YouTube
HTML5 is now the default setting for video playback on YouTube when using Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and beta versions of Firefox. If you needed any more evidence to support the claim that Flash is dead, it doesn’t get much more damning than this.
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Microsoft's decision to ditch Surface is a long-overdue mercy killing for Windows RT
For too long it was the metaphorical unwanted litter of kittens tied in a sack just waiting for someone to ditch it in the river. Windows RT is dead, having enjoyed a cancer-ridden 'life' for longer than many people expected.
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IT vendors cry foul at new Chinese security rules requiring built-in backdoors
Last year, the Chinese government started laying out new rules for technology products used by government agencies and banks, in part as a response to revelations about the National Security Agency’s exploitation of Chinese networks.
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Bill Gates teases top-secret 'Personal Agent' project he's working on with Microsoft
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently hosted his third Ask Me Anything session on Reddit. Among the mix of serious and semi-serious questions, Gates provided some details about an unknown project that he is currently working on with Microsoft called Personal Agent.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
A Simple Experiment That (Finally) Explains Just What Gravity Is
What is gravity? It's one of the easiest scientific concepts to understand the effects of, and one of the hardest concepts to understand by itself. Here — using a large sheet of spandex, some marbles, and a couple weights — is a demonstration that makes the entire concept remarkably graspable.
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Yet Another Reason To Pay Attention During Physics Class
Here now is a practical demonstration on impulsive tension, and why a large force applied for a very short period of time is bad for tow hooks. Remember, when towing with a tow strap, to always pull very slowly; a little force can go a long way, if you know how to apply it. Which is gradually.
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Friday, January 16, 2015
This Is SpaceX's Rocket Crash-Landing on a Barge
Last week, SpaceX tried to land its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone barge and failed. Now Elon Musk has posted footage of the crash landing on Twitter. It isn't pretty. You can see in the GIF above that the rocket touched down on the barge's landing surface at about 45 degrees to the horizontal.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Quantenna Maintains 802.11ac Technology Lead as Broadcom and Marvell Launch New Chipsets
Quantenna was the first to bring a 4x4 MU-MIMO 802.11ac chipset to the market (with the Asus RT-AC87U and the Netgear Nighthawk X4 R7500). It has a number of Wave 2 features, but notably lacked support for 160 MHz channels.
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The First Photo Ever Taken Of An Oceanic Shark Giving Birth
Marine biologists working off the coast of the Philippines have captured an image of an incredibly elusive sight — a free-swimming oceanic shark giving birth. Along with colleague A. E.
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#CharlieHebdo irony: Zuckerberg champions free speech while Facebook actively censors
The post by Pakistani actor Hamza Ali Abbasi had questioned the value of “insulting” speech.
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Google throws nearly a billion Android users under the bus, refuses to patch OS vulnerability
When it comes to providing security updates for previous products, various manufacturers have pursued different strategies. Some, like Microsoft, tend to provide security updates long after they’ve stopped selling an operating system (Microsoft only stopped providing Windows XP support last year).
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Razer's got a big 50% off sale going on, today only
If you've been anxiously waiting for a price drop on one of Razer's gorgeous, very expensive laptops, today is the day for you: the hardware-maker is celebrating its Best of CES 2015 awards with a massive, one-day sale.
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Sunday, January 4, 2015
Open-carry cop-watchers say they are "pissed off patriots"
In Arlington TX, a group of Ron Paul style libertarians have become self-appointed cop-watchers. Armed with guns and video cameras, and sometimes wearing police hats with pig ears, they scan police radios to learn where police activity is taking place and drive to the locations to record the police.
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Some Poor Fool Challenged Disney's Gaston to a Push-Up Contest
The evidence that the people playing characters at theme parks are completely awesome and hilarious continues to mount. Today's proof comes courtesy of Disney's Gaston who does not suffer fools lightly. Dude, what were you thinking? That's Gaston. Of course he can beat you at some lousy push-ups.
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Friday, January 2, 2015
Google Fiber’s latest FCC filing is Comcast’s nightmare come to life
What’s every incumbent ISP’s worst nightmare? If we had to guess, it looks something like the filing that Google just made with the Federal Communications Commission.
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