Deep down we all know we shouldn’t crank our music or listen to headphones with the volume really high, but we still do. And if you’ve ever wondered if years of hard rock has done any serious damage, here’s an easy way to find out . Read more…
View original post here:
Test How Old Your Ears Are (And How Much Damage You’ve Done to Them)
This map is covered in dots. In fact, there are 308, 745, 538 of the little things—each one representing a single individual living in the US, and its color indicating ethnicity. Read more…
Visit site:
The Entire Racial Distribution of the US, Person-By-Person
WinCo is a midwestern chain of worker-owned stores that consistently underprice WalMart, while still paying a living wage to their staff and decent prices to their suppliers.
Read the article:
WinCo: worker-owned grocery chain that pays benefits, pensions, living wages — and has lower prices than WalMart
Getting acquainted with Windows 8.1 has been a slow process that started early this year , but it looks like it’ll finally hit shelves in roughly two months. According to an unnamed source cited by ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, the RTM build of the operating system is still on track to hit manufacturers by the end of August, and the OS — along with new hardware carrying it — will be publicly available come mid-October. Those hoping to get their hands on the near-final software ahead of time via MSDN or the sunsetting Technet are out of luck, however, as the outlet’s tipster claims the final portions of 8.1 won’t be obtainable through those means until general availability. If you need something to help pass the time until then, you can always dive into our in-depth hands-on with the update formerly known as Blue . Filed under: Microsoft Comments Via: The Verge Source: ZDNet
Originally posted here:
Windows 8.1 reportedly scheduled for mid-October launch
Concept sketches of the Hyperloop passenger capsules; note the air intake noses. Tesla Motors The proposed design for the “Hyperloop, ” an ultra-fast transit system that would run between San Francisco and Los Angeles, was revealed today on Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors website. Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, describes a system that moves pods under low pressure through a tube between the two cities following the I-5 freeway, all within a 56-page PDF document . The Hyperloop would consist of aluminum pods inside a set of two steel tubes, one for each direction of travel. These are connected at each terminus. The tubes would be positioned on top of pylons spaced 100 feet apart holding the tube 20 feet in the air, and the tube would be covered by solar arrays to generate its own power. Inside the tubes, the pods would carry people up to 760 miles per hour. The pods would each carry 28 passengers, departing every two minutes from either location (or every 30 seconds at peak times). So each pod would have about 23 miles between each other while traversing the tube. The transport capacity would therefore be about 840 passengers per hour. Read 15 remaining paragraphs | Comments
View post:
Hyperloop—a theoretical, 760 mph transit system made of sun, air, and magnets
Anil Dash offers a timeline of the legendary iWatch’s “entrance to the market” . June 17, 2014: Microsoft’s rumored return to watchmaking ships not as the leaked xWatch, but as the Surface Band.
See the original article here:
The future past of the iWatch
An anonymous reader writes “In a fascinating post from Kelly Jacklin, the long time Apple software engineer details how he helped create the default text alert sound on the iPhone — a sound otherwise known as ‘Tri-tone.’ The history of the the pleasant text alert sound that we’ve all come to know and love stretches all the way back to 1998, nearly 10 years before the iPhone ever hit store shelves.” Here’s Jacklin’s post. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Follow this link:
Behind the Story of the iPhone’s Default Text Tone
One of the few big upgrades in the fourth-generation iPad was the HD front camera, but you wouldn’t know it you’ve been relying on Skype’s standard-definition video calls. Thankfully, a Skype for iPad 4.1 update has just enabled HD video calling for Apple’s latest-generation tablet. There isn’t much more to the release unless you’re craving better call stability, but there’s enough here to justify a visit to the App Store. Filed under: Tablets , Mobile , Apple , Microsoft Comments Source: App Store
Read More:
Skype update brings HD video calls to fourth-generation iPads
Turning off lamps and alarm clocks by your bed in the dark is never easy. If you’re skilled in electronics though, you could do it just by knocking on your nightstand. Read more…
See more here:
Turn Off a Lamp By Tapping Your Nightstand with this DIY Power Strip
How convincing can special effects be in real life? A trio of black men wore masks purchased from a special effects company while committing a robbery in order to make witnesses believe they were white—and it actually worked. Read more…
Visit link:
Robbers used special effects masks to disguise themselves as white