The cost of the instruments needed to run a hospital or a lab is often exorbitant—but what if doctors and scientists could simply print their own tools from an open library of designs? That’s what a paper published today suggests. Read more…
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Doctors Could 3D Print Their Own Tools For a Fraction of the Cost
Los Angeles School Police Department announced this week that it would be sending some controversial surplus military equipment back to the federal government. Specifically, the school police will send back three grenade launchers. In related news, LA school police had grenade launchers . Read more…
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LA Schools Are Giving Back Grenade Launchers (But Keeping the Tank)
At last, it’s done. The biggest spaceship size chart ever created is now complete and fully operational. 4, 268 x 5, 690 pixels of technological terror that includes everything from the smaller Star War ships to EVE. According to its author, Dirk Loechel, this is the last update. It’s epic. Read more…
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The biggest comparison of sci-fi spaceships ever is complete at last
snydeq writes: Two weeks before the its official unveiling, this article provides a roundup of what to expect and the open questions around Windows 9, given Build 9834 leaks and confirmations springing up all over the Web. The desktop’s Start Menu, Metro apps running in resizable windows on the desktop, virtual desktops, Notification Center, and Storage Sense, are among the presumed features in store for Windows 9. Chief among the open questions are the fates of Internet Explorer, Cortana, and the Metro Start Screen. Changes to Windows 9 will provide an inkling of where Nadella will lead Microsoft in the years ahead. What’s your litmus test on Windows 9? Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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What To Expect With Windows 9
Parking sucks, and that’s why there are plenty of apps to help your car find a vacant spot. Trouble is, those solutions tend to require expensive sensors to be installed in each and every one of those potentially open spots. A new app called PocketParker instead leverages the power of passive, portable sensors—the ones already installed your smartphone. Read more…
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This New Parking App Can Find Empty Spaces, No Sensors Required
The Maersk Triple-E is the largest cargo ship in the world. Photographer Alastair Philip Wiper got the chance to visit Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering , the South Korean port where nine of these behemoths are currently being build. These are his amazing photos, originally published on Wired . Read more…
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Pictures of the World’s Biggest Cargo Ship Make You Feel Tiny
Defense giant Lockheed Martin, Notre Dame University, DARPA and the Air Force Research Lab have begun flight testing a streamlined and greatly miniaturized airborne laser turret that has the potential to totally transform air combat as we understand it today. Read more…
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Lockheed’s New Laser Super Turret Could Change Air Combat Forever
Making and sharing your own Google Map is getting easier thanks to the newly rebranded and relaunched ” My Maps ” tool. There’s also a new Android app so you can make and manage your maps on the go. Read more…
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Making and sharing your own Google Map is getting easier thanks to the newly rebranded and relaunche
With roughly 12, 383 miles of coastline, the US has plenty of potential installation sites for offshore wind farms. Floating data collection centers like the one shown above will help energy companies and government agencies alike find the windiest, and most effective locations along America’s shores. Read more…
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A Million-Dollar Buoy Will Spot the Best Sites for Wind Farms
Sepsis is an nasty and surprisingly common way to die. The illness is triggered by blood infections but, ultimately, it’s your own immune reaction—not the bacteria or virus—that poisons you to death. Filtering those pathogens out of blood right away, though, could be a promising treatment. Enter a new device made of m agnetic nanobeads coated in sticky proteins that attract bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Read more…
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Magnetic Nanobeads Can Snatch Bacteria and Virus Out of Blood