It’s a damn shame, really, that we don’t use swords any more on a large scale. Because the process of turning liquid fire into a deadly bronze? That’s something that should be taught in every shop class, forever, the end. [ BBC2 via Buzzfeed ] More
Instead of storing 3TB of five hard drive platters, Seagate has done the unthinkable and squeezed the same amount of memory on just three 3.5-inch platters, achieving the holy grail 625GB/in2 areal density. Keep an eye out for those hard drives later this year. [ The Reg ] More
Osama bin Laden’s dead . But before we offed him, he was camped out in a Pakistani mansion—and in typical internet fashion, it's already pinpointed on Google. The mapper's anonymous, but they reveal strange things—police station neighbors? [ The Atlantic ] More
More dispatches from At&T's eerily prescient vision of the future , all the way from the 90s. Here, the simple problem of needing an ingredient for a meal is solved with some cool retrofuturistic tech, replete with cheesy bleeps and boops. More
Pre-release versions of Windows 8 have leaked to the web. Here’s what they tell us about the upcoming OS. More
One California Assemblyman is proposing legislation that would create a pilot program designed to capture those vibrations by putting piezoelectrics under roads. [ PsyOrg ] More
Liquid cooling, long the geeky masterwork of any PC gaming champion, has become simpler to set up, with pre-assembled, self-contained units available for any dummy in search of a cooler CPU. Maingear says their newest cooler frosts like a boss. More
