For the first time in history, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have captured how our brain makes memories in video, watching how molecules morph into the structures that, at the end of the day, make who we are. It’s there’s a soul, this how it gets made. Read more…
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Scientists watch how the brain makes memories for the first time ever
If you’re planning on sticking around for longer—a lot longer—than a standard human lifespan, you’ll need a watch that keeps time on the galactic level. Van Cleef & Arpels’ new Complication Poétique Midnight Planétarium will certainly fit the bill. Instead of hands denoting the hours and minutes, it incorporates six of our solar system’s planets rotating a tiny version of the sun in real time. Read more…
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A Watch That Puts an Entire Planetarium on Your Wrist
Microsoft’s SkyDrive is a terrific little cloud service that doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves. Unless, of course, it’s being sued by British Sky Broadcasting Group over its name. But now SkyDrive will be called OneDrive, for just as long as is legally allowable. Read more…
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SkyDrive Is Now OneDrive, Until Microsoft Gets Sued Again
Clearly not content with buying a terrifying robot army , Google is now purchasing a London-based artificial intelligence company to go with it—for a cool $500 million. Read more…
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Google’s Buying an AI Startup Called DeepMind for $500M
Stratasys ‘ has a new $330, 000 3D printer, but this one has the potential to do a whole lot more than monochrome figurines. In fact, the company says it’s the first machine able to create objects in colored, flexible materials. The Objet500 Connex3 3D printer uses rubber and plastic as base materials, although according to Stratasys (the company which now owns the MakerBot series ) material combinations will be able to offer different levels of rigidity, transparency and opacity. Colors , meanwhile, are produced by the same mix of cyan, magenta and yellow you’ll find on your inkjet printer at home — it even comes with six palettes of rubbery “tango” colors, if you’re perhaps looking to channel your ’90s tastes into some tasteful flexible booties, as seen above. At the technical level, the printer can go as fine as 16-micron layers, offering a high level of detail and finish, and can pump out around 30kg of resin (that is, base material) per run. Talking to the BBC , a Stratasys spokesperson said the advanced printer could cut down industrial design prototyping times by 50 percent, although he was talking about the time from prototype to market, not printing time itself. The Objet500 Connex3 launches today, although those flexible color printing materials won’t be available to buy until Q2 later this year, so hold on to those neo-boot dreams for now. Filed under: Misc , Wearables , Science , Alt Comments
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Stratasys’ new 3D printer creates flexible materials in color, speeds up
It’s been 30 years since Apple first launched the Macintosh, and this week has been littered with clever tributes to the computer . Members of the Boston Computer Society, however, have unearthed a big treasure in the history of the machine. A week after a bow tie-sporting Steve Jobs famously pulled the machine out of a bag at the company’s shareholder meeting, the CEO made a second presentation at Boston’s John Hancock Hall. The clip hasn’t been shown off publicly for the better part of 30 years, but has now been archived at the Computer History Museum . While the original remains the first unveiling of the unit, this 96-minute clip offers new insight into how users, rather than shareholders, embraced the computer at its launch. Filed under: Apple Comments Source: Time Techland
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Watch Steve Jobs demonstrate the first Mac back in 1984
Valve is not done redefining itself yet. The gaming juggernaut added ‘operating system developer’ to ‘games studio’ and ‘digital media distributor’ with the introduction of SteamOS. And now it’s adding ‘streaming service’ to its repertoire. The service , currently in beta, allows users to stream game play from one PC to any other PC in their home. Invited users run a beta version of the Steam client on their computers and have settings for adjusting the amount of bandwidth the stream consumes. Though work is in progress to make streaming an option from OS X and Linux machines, the service is primarily aimed at Windows PCs to start. The Windows focus may, in part, be a result of the relatively larger library of Windows games on Steam. Valve’s Linux-based SteamOS has one big limitation compared with the full Steam experience: it can only run games compatible with Linux. That limitation may be mostly put to rest when a Steam Box is now paired with a Windows PC, allowing users to run any game in the Steam library either natively in the Steam Box or streamed. The other key benefit to the new streaming option is convenience. Graphically rich games often suffer when run on thermally limited notebooks. Decoding a video stream requires drastically less computing power than rendering a 3D environment, so gaming on a modestly specced laptop could become much more satisfying. Read 1 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Streaming comes to Steam: run on your gaming rig, play on your laptop
In the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine , researchers recount the fascinating case of an electrician who, after sustaining a 14, 000-volt shock to his left shoulder , presented with “bilateral stellate anterior subcapsular opacities of the lens.” Translation: Starburst-shaped cataracts. Read more…
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A 14,000-volt electrical shock gave this man star-shaped cataracts
Just a friendly reminder that the NSA ‘s children’s website, “CryptoKids, ” is an actual, not-in-the-least-bit-weird thing that exists. Read more…
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The NSA’s website for kids isn’t creepy. Nope. Not creepy at all.
Flickr user TexasGOPVote.com While the rest of us were fretting about the Gmail outage on Friday , lawyers and those involved in the United States judicial system were concerned that uscourts.gov and other federal courts’ sites had been hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. Also suffering an outage was pacer.gov , the “Public Access to Court Electronic Records” (PACER), a common way for lawyers and journalists to access court documents online. (That site, which normally charges $0.10 per page for documents, also has a free online mirror , known as RECAP.) Initially, a spokesperson for the Administrative Office of the US Courts told Politico on Friday that it was indeed a denial-of-service attack. A group calling itself the “European Cyber Army” initially also claimed responsibility on Twitter . Read 2 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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FBI: US court websites went down due to “technical problems,” not DDOS