This time last year, we reviewed the Hendo—a real-life hoverboard that actually levitates off the ground (as opposed to whatever this thing is.) The same company’s new and improved model looks and feels more like a skateboard—with help from Tony Hawk. The image above is just an illustration, since the real thing will be revealed later this month. But it looks rad as hell . Read more…
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Tony Hawk Helped Design a New Hoverboard, the Hendo 2.0
Zothecula writes with this Gizmag story about an interdisciplinary team of researchers who have built the first prototype of a miniature particle accelerator that uses terahertz radiation. “Researchers at MIT in the US and DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) in Germany have developed a technology that could shrink particle accelerators by a factor of 100 or more. The basic building block of the accelerator uses high-frequency electromagnetic waves and is just 1.5 cm (0.6 in) long and 1 mm (0.04 in) thick, with this drastic size reduction potentially benefitting the fields of medicine, materials science and particle physics, among others.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Terahertz Radiation To Enable Portable Particle Accelerators
Laser scanning has helped England do everything from discovering new things about Stonehenge to planning better flood infrastructure . Now, the country has made the entirety of its massive trove of scans available for free—in part because of requests from everyone from researchers to Minecraft players. Read more…
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England Makes 3D Data of the Entire Country Free After Minecrafters Ask For It
Hanging out at a museum is a great way to spend an afternoon. It can also be a frugal way to spend an afternoon, as many museum admission prices are cheap—or better yet, free. Cheapism offers a list of cheap or free museums in every U.S. state. Read more…
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The Best Cheap (or Free) Museums in All 50 States
Upgrading to Windows 10 is easy if you’re already on Windows 7 or 8 . However, if you want a clean install , you have to install an older version first. Next month, the first big update to Windows 10 will fix this. Read more…
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Next Month You Can Use Windows 7, 8 Product Keys to Activate Windows 10
The iOS 9 jailbreak was just released from the same team who brought us the iOS 8 jailbreak . Like last time, it’s also Windows-only for the time being. Read more…
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The iOS 9 Jailbreak Is Now Available
Jim Efaw writes: Hillary Clinton’s home servers had more than just the e-mail ports open directly to the Internet. The Associated Press discovered, by using scanning results from 2012 “widely available online”, that the clintonemail.com server also had the RDP port open; another machine on her network had the VNC port open, and another one had a web server open even though it didn’t appear to be configured for a real site. Clinton previously said that her server featured “numerous safeguards, ” but hasn’t explained what that means. Apparently, requiring a VPN wasn’t one of them. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open
MikeChino writes: Your next house could snap together like a jigsaw puzzle without the use of any power tools. Clemson University students designed and built Indigo Pine, a carbon-neutral house that exists largely as a set of digital files that can be e-mailed to a wood shop anywhere in the world, CNC cut, and then assembled on-site in a matter of days. “Indigo Pine has global application, ” says the Clemson team. “Because the house exists largely as a set of digital files, the plans can be sent anywhere in the world, constructed using local materials, adapted to the site, and influenced by local culture.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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"E-mailable" House Snaps Together Without Nails
Sony’s Playstation 4 does most of the TV-watching things a TV-watching box is meant to do, apart from the fact that watching Netflix using two analog sticks is a pain. Sony’s new Bluetooth universal remote should fix all that. Read more…
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A New PS4 Remote Makes the Playstation a Halfway Decent Set-Top Box
According to several reports , the ‘largest-ever technology merger’ is set to be announced later today — and it’s between Dell and storage technology firm EMC, in a deal said to be worth over $50 billion. Read more…
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Dell Reported to Announce $50 Billion ‘Biggest Deal in Tech’ Later Today