If you’re running out of space on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and you’ve slimmed down your media collection, the only thing left is to put your apps on a diet. But how can you tell which apps are eating up the most data? iOS 5 now has an option that lets you find out. Here’s what to do: More »
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This beautiful luxury home in New York’s Adirondack State Park has an awesome secret-it’s built on top of a former launch control center, and has an additional 2300 square feet of space which lies safely underground.
And now this cabin/bunker can be yours for a mere $1.75 million! Maybe Bruce Wayne is looking for a vacation home, complete with pre-constructed BatCave? You can see more pics of this survivalist dream house at the link below.
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This House Will Help You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse
Windows has more antivirus programs than we can count, but we keep coming back to Microsoft’s own offering, Security Essentials. It’s easy to use, lightweight, and does everything in the background, so you rarely need to interact with it. More »
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Mothers and their babies are often said to share a deep, intimate connection…but even so, this new discovery is weird. Simply by looking and smiling at each other, moms and babies synchronize their heartbeats to within milliseconds of each other. More »
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Never heard of molybdenite? We’re not shocked. Its not nearly as hyped as graphene or quantum dots, but it could be the key to smaller, bendable microchips. The problem with silicon is that, in layers less than two nanometers thick, it can become unstable, oxidize and quickly deteriorate. Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), on the other hand, can be laid down in sheets just three atoms thick. The semiconductor also earns bonus points for being an abundant, naturally occurring mineral. Earlier this year researchers at the Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) demoed the first molybdenite transistor, but the team is moving fast and has already whipped up the first prototype of a complete integrated circuit (we assume with the aid of an all girl army of Kung Fu engineers). Things are looking good for this potential silicon usurper. And best of all, molybdenite is flexible. So, hello bendable computers!
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It is summer now in Antarctica, and the giant salmon are running -as you can see. Sandwichgirl recently took a few photographs of the fish, which are curated in a Flickr set. Link -via Laughing Squid
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Giant Antarctic Salmon
Kepler-22b is a newly confirmed exoplanet, orbiting a Sun-like star 600 light years away from Earth. The exoplanet sits in the “habitable zone”—a range of orbits around a star that are, based on what we know about life on Earth, most likely to provide the right conditions for life to happen.
That is pretty damn cool. But it does not mean there must be life on Kepler-22b. As Phil Plait explains on the Bad Astronomy blog, there’s a lot we don’t know about this exoplanet yet, and “within the habitable zone” is not a guarantee of habitability. Case in point: Our solar system. Earth is within the Sun’s habitable zone. But so are Mars and Venus, and you may have noticed that they are not especially teeming with life.
Kepler detects planets when they transit their star, passing directly in front of the star, blocking its light a little bit. The bigger the planet, the more light it blocks. The astronomers going over the data determined that Kepler-22b is about 2.4 times bigger than the Earth. The problem is, that and its distance from its star are all we know. We don’t know if it’s a rocky world, a gaseous one, or what. It may not even have an atmosphere!
Another good post to read on this subject is Matthew Francis’ explanation of “habitability” on the Galileo’s Pendulum blog. Even the statement, “Kepler 22-b is within the habitable zone,” comes along with a lot of assumptions that may or may not turn out to be true.
The following factors are needed to calculate whether a planet is in the habitable zone: The temperature of the host star: the hotter the star, the more it emits light of all wavelengths … The size of the host star: a large star emits more light from its surface simply because there is more surface area … The albedo of the planet: how much light gets reflected back into space … Hand in hand with albedo comes the composition of the planet’s atmosphere—if it has one.
When we say Kepler-22b is in the habitable zone, we’re assuming that it has the same atmospheric composition and albedo as Earth. We don’t know that. And it’s a big leap, bearing in mind (again) that there’s not even another planet in our own solar system that shares those characteristics.
I swear, I’m not a fun-hater. Kepler-22b is awesome. Just keep it in context and know that there’s still a lot we don’t know about this thing.
Size comparison of Kepler-22b via Galileo’s Pendulum.
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As head of the Senate’s privacy panel, Senator Al Franken has spearheaded the investigation into Carrier IQ’s potential violations of multiple federal statutes. Now, he’s requested AT&T, Sprint, HTC, and Samsung explain themselves as to what data, exactly, they’ve gathered using the program. They’ve until December 14th to respond. [Electronista] More »
We’ve all — and by ‘we’ I mean my more inebriated co-bloggers at last year’s Christmas party — would like to avoid being photographed while relaxing in public. So this beer holder developed by the Argentine ad agency Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi could come in handy. When a sensor built into this beer chiller detects a flash, it emits its own flash in order to overexpose any photograph:
The agency says the device, which has so far only been planted in regional bars, is a real product that has been field tested and actually works. “We placed several beer coolers in different bars in the North of Argentina,” says Maxi Itzkoff, executive creative director at Del Campo. “People took lots of photos that ended up being blurry beyond recognition and then uploaded them to social media anyway.”
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A Beer Holder That Blocks Incriminating Facebook Photos