Friday was a big day at the drone testing facility in Boulder City, Nevada. It was the day that the first drone authorized to fly without FAA approval would take to the air. The bright orange unmanned aircraft, Magpie, did just that—and then it crashed to the ground in an embarrassing cloud of dust two seconds later. Read more…
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First Drone Launches at FAA Test Site in Nevada, Crashes Immediately
If the Sony hack has taught us anything , it’s that keeping incriminating emails in your inbox is a terrible idea. Even if you aren’t doing anything particularly bad, if someone gets into you email, everything you’ve ever said could be out in the open. Here’s how to make sure that doesn’t happen by automatically backing up and deleting everything in your Gmail account on a schedule. Read more…
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How to Automatically Back Up and Purge Your Gmail Every 30 Days
Jason Koebler writes A new imaging technique is able to capture images at 100 billion frames per second—fast enough to watch light interact with objects, which could eventually lead to new cloaking technologies. The camera was developed by a team at Washington University in St. Louis—for the team’s first tests, it was able to visualize laser pulse reflections, photons racing through air and through resin, and “faster-than-light propagation of non-information.” It can also be used in conjunction with telescopes and to image optical and quantum communications, according to lead researcher Liang Gao. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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The Fastest Camera Ever Made Captures 100 Billion Frames Per Second
The most inefficient part of a gearing system is also its most vital: the teeth. While they allow the systems to, y’know, work, they also introduce vast quantities of frictional losses and, in turn, mechanical wear—so this new system uses magnetic levitation to do away with them. Read more…
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This Maglev Gearbox Doesn’t Need Teeth
Thanks to the internet, there are now more ways than ever to get music. But this hasn’t allowed smaller artists to get a bigger share of the financial pie. In fact, the top 1 percent of artists now collect 77 percent of all revenue from recorded music. Read more…
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1 percent of recording artists earn 77 percent of recorded music revenue
Good news Microsoft Office power users! You’ll soon be able to use the new and improved Outlook for Mac. That’s good news, because the new Outlook for Mac looks pretty awesome . And since a lot of people use Outlook, this upgrade is going to improve a lot of email experiences. Read more…
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Microsoft Finally Announces the New Outlook for Mac and It Looks Great
A new study on solar energy from Deutsche Bank bears very good news . Thanks to technology and innovation, solar energy will be just as cheap as energy from fossil fuels by 2016. That’s basically tomorrow, and it’s awesome. Read more…
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Study: Solar Energy Will Be as Cheap as Fossil Fuel Energy by 2016
Adobe’s Creative Suite is one of the best software packs out there for professionals, but the suite is prohibitively expensive for most people. If you can’t drop the cash, you can still get a similar experience with free or cheap software. Here’s how to build your own Creative Suite. Read more…
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Build Your Own Adobe Creative Suite with Free and Cheap Software
Next year is the 800th anniversary of sealing the Magna Carta, and to prepare for the milestone, British Library conservationists used multispectral imaging to save parts of the text thought to be lost. Read more…
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Multispectral Imaging Found Magna Carta Passages Lost for 250 Years
It’s the Star Trek -inspired future we were promised—walls that glow and change color, perhaps with just a gentle voice command. And it’s finally (almost) possible thanks to a series of advances in OLED sheets. This new lighting solution also uses half as much energy than existing fluorescent lights. It is, however, pretty expensive. Read more…
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OLED Wallpaper Could Be the Future of Lighting