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Tech NewsEton’s New Boost Turbines Double (or Quadruple) Your Battery Life
Unless you own a RAZR MAXX, chances are good that your phone’s battery is going to die by the end of the day. So you can either gird yourself for another fun-filled bus ride staring out the window or you can get the one of Eton’s three new Boost Turbine backup batteries. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-razr-hd-and-razr-maxx-hd-review-long-li-5953893 The BT … Continued
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Why, How, and Where You Should Start Eating Bugs
Whaddya mean you didn’t chow down on cicada during this summer’s mass emergence? You’d be surprised how delicious those little creepy-crawlies are with a bit of salt and vinegar. Besides, if you had, you’d have gotten a head start on our inevitable bug-eating future. https://gizmodo.com/fight-the-east-coast-cicada-onslaught-with-chianti-and-487409420 With a rapidly growing population already nearing seven billion humans, … Continued
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Tech NewsYou Won’t Believe What It’ll Take to Free the Costa Concordia
The 114,500-ton Costa Concordia luxury liner has been rotting on an Italian reef since last January, after a collision that killed 32 of the 4,229 passengers and crew on board and has left the ship stranded for nearly 24 months. This morning, a crew of more than 500 engineers is attempting to finally right the … Continued
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Explore the World’s Best Museums Without Leaving Your Living Room
So what if you live nowhere near cultural epicenters like Paris, London, or New York? In this day and age, the wonders of human creation and artistic expression are never more than a few mouse clicks away. Virtual museums have been around nearly as long as the Web itself. Established in the dark ages of … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Aluminum Airship of the Future Has Finally Flown
There was once a time when man looked to the skies and expected to see giant balloons rather than airplanes drifting above. The Hindenburg Disaster promptly put an end to those dreams. But nearly a century later, one company may have finally figured out how to build a dirigible suitable for the 21st century. Just … Continued
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Tech News9 Massive Refugee Camps That Are Home to Nearly 1.5 Million People
While the Arab Spring and its resulting political upheavals have firmly held the world’s attention over the past two years, the Middle East’s conflicts are, sadly, far from the only ones going on. Wars in North, West, and East Africa have displaced millions of people and killed untold more. Those lucky enough to escape with … Continued
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io9MoviesThe Ultimate Supercut of Hollywood Stars Falling Through Space
How does the saying go? “A journey of a thousand vertical feet begins with a single step?” Hollywood has certainly taken that maxim and run with it, regularly incorporating vertigo-inducing shots into modern films. The editing team at Plot Point Productions has assembled more than 50 examples of people falling through empty space from the … Continued
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Tech NewsRaytheon’s New Real-Life Minesweeper Will Make Seas Safer for Sailors
Even though Iran has backed away from from its threats to lace the Strait of Hormuz with mines, militaries around the world (the US included) continue to employ the devices in large numbers—as much as 200 times as often as any other kind of maritime weapon. So, to augment the DoD’s aging fleet of Avenger-class … Continued
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Broadcom’s Bringing UHD to Your Cable Box
Ultra-high definition TV is coming—sooner than you think. The industry is certainly already on board, what with the recent release of the HDMI 2.0 standard and a steadily growing stable relatively inexpensive of 4K-capable TVs. But actually getting 4K content from anything other than a local media drive is still a problem. Or it was … Continued
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io9MoviesHow Warner Bros Transformed The Wizard of Oz into an IMAX Classic
1939’s The Wizard of Oz is the standard bearer of cinema’s Golden Age. The live action fantasy classic has become an integral part of the pop culture lexicon, endlessly parodied, referenced, and retold in everything from children’s books to ultra-porn. And now it is coming back—to an even bigger silver screen. In this featurette, Warner … Continued
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Tech NewsThis GPS-Based Plane Tracker Makes Highways in the Sky
At bustling traffic hubs like O’Hare International, planes can spend an interminably long time waiting for their turn to land. And at airports like Rio de Janeiro–Galeão International, pilots must contend with tight flight paths to avoid crowded population centers and hills on their final approach. But thanks to a new hyper-accurate GPS-based tracking system, … Continued
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Tech NewsTWTIT: Hunter S Thompson Doesn’t Like His New TV
The one in which the father of gonzo journalism goes off on the “asshole who scrambled all my wiring.” Turns out, Thompson had had a new-fangled DVD player installed in his Woody Creek, CO home but couldn’t get the damnable thing to turn on. So he called what he thought was the installation company that … Continued
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Tech NewsCharles Bradley: Why Is It So Hard
On today, the high holy day of frenzied consumerism, please take a moment to reflect on your position of relative privilege in these uncertain times. Let us not forget the real trials and hardships of people both around the world and around this country while we vapidly argue the perceived advantages between competing operating systems. … Continued
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Tech NewsAmerica’s First Supersonic Interceptor Was a Flying Bottle Rocket
When the Soviet Tupolev Tu-4 bomber made its debut in 1949, it was more than a big deal. This reverse-engineered Boeing B-29 Superfortress gave the Russians intercontinental strategic strike capabilities that the existing US fleet of F-61 Black Widows and F-82 Twin Mustangs simply couldn’t compete with. The American response: Build a better interceptor. Enter … Continued
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How the iPhone 5S Fingerprint Scanner Works—And What It Means For You
Say goodbye to “slide to unlock.” At today’s press conference, Apple introduced the new iPhone 5S with a biometric lock it claims will revolutionize mobile security. Here’s how it works, and what it means for you. Tricks of the Trade There are two major technological schools when it comes to fingerprint authentication—electro-optical and capacitance. EO … Continued
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Intel’s Tiny New Processor Could Shape Our Mobile Future
Reports of Moore’s Law’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. In its opening Developers Forum keynote presentation at San Francisco’s Moscone West Center today, Intel unveiled its newest class of minuscule Quark processors. And at 14nm, the Quark could well make most any device smarter. As Intel CEO, Brian Krzanich, and President, Renee James, explained to … Continued
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