If you've ever sat at your desk, contentedly listening to streaming music on your computer and thought, "Man, I wish this existed 25 years ago," stop. You don't. You really, really don't. Watch this video and recant. More »
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If you've ever sat at your desk, contentedly listening to streaming music on your computer and thought, "Man, I wish this existed 25 years ago," stop. You don't. You really, really don't. Watch this video and recant. More »
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Despite their age—they have been flying since the 1950s—the B-52 Stratofortress is still the backbone of the US Air Force's strategic bombing force. These jet-powered beasts can deliver up to 70,000 pounds of weapons to any target around the globe. That includes nuclear weapons, of course. More »
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Last summer a team from the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland created a human-powered helicopter called Gamera, and managed to get it off the ground for 11 seconds. Not bad. But yesterday their Gamera 2 managed to stay airborne for a solid 50 seconds, smashing the world record. It looks exhausting, but I wanna try. More »
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This week in shit none of us can afford: the private company Excalibur Almaz has started selling tickets for a journey to the Moon. To do it, the company has purchased several old, used Russian spacecrafts. What could go wrong? More »
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This week in shit none of us can afford: the private company Excalibur Almaz has started selling tickets for a journey to the Moon. To do it, the company has purchased several old, used Russian spacecrafts. What could go wrong? More »
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As the layoffs have begun, RIM has reportedly hired JP Morgan and RBC Capital to look at “strategic options” according to Reuters, and among the ideas that came out it, RIM may have been advised to split its business in half, by separating the handset division and the messaging network division. It is fair to say that the messaging division would be seen as the one with more value, while the handset part would be left to fend... [ Continue reading... ]
You: I wanna put in a treehouse. More »
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We humans are already kind of afraid of robots, so here's a good idea: what if we make them trip balls and hallucinate imaginary people everywhere? Seems like it would drive them to madness and make them turn on us even faster, but researchers at Cornell University's Robot Learning Lab think it will make them better at their jobs. More »
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A new Facebook feature has been made publicly available with not so much as an announcement. Friendshake uses your phone's GPS to find the people around you on Facebook and easily add them as "Friends." It's half cool, half freaky. More »
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