Kaboom. And fireball. And ground shake. And shockwave. And boom. AtomCentral shows us some amazingly clear HD footage restored from 1953 of the Atomic Cannon test from Upshot-Knothole Grable. In the video below, you can see cars, jeeps, buses and tanks against the backdrop of the ginormous blast’s initial burst and shockwave. The blast eventually swallows everything. Read more…
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Incredibly clear footage shows the blast effect of 1953 atomic bomb
Oh baby. The US Navy is saying a prototype of the solid state Laser Weapons System (LaWS) is ready for deployment. This summer in the Persian Sea, the USS Ponce will be outfitted with lasers that can shoot down aerial drones, speedboats and swarm boats that are miles away. It’s going to be Star Wars in the open sea. Read more…
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The US Navy is finally deploying giant lasers
Believe it or not, making ice is more complicated than just making water really cold. One thing that helps is bacteria. Yes, bacteria! In this captivatingly magic video, it takes just a second for Pseudomonas syringae to turn a whole jar of water into ice. Read more…
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Whoa, Watch Bacteria Instantly Turn Water Into Ice
Benedict Cumberbatch has said that he felt like a “boobie” in his motion capture suit for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug , but how did he actually look? This video shows us how Weta translated Cumberbatch’s performance into the CG-animated Smaug. Read more…
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Watch Benedict Cumberbatch on all fours in his mo-cap suit as Smaug
When most of us hear the term “microhouse, ” we think of the chic, wedge-shaped homes that have colonized the world’s wealthiest cities. But in a number of U.S. cities, microhouses are being used to house a different demographic—the very poor. Read more…
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The Teeny, Tiny Microhouse Revolution That’s Giving the Homeless Homes
At the company’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, SanDisk announced today the imminent release of the single largest-capacity MicroSD card ever created. This tiny storage medium offers an unprecedented 128 GB of space, but don’t expect it to come cheap. Read more…
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This MicroSD Card Packs Massive Capacity into a Minute Form Factor
New submitter optimus_phil writes “New Scientist magazine reports on findings that suggest that delaying fatherhood may increase the risk of fathering children with disorders such as Apert syndrome, autism and schizophrenia. The article reports that ‘although there is a big increase in risk for many disorders, it’s a big increase in a very small risk. A 40-year-old is about 50 per cent more likely to father an autistic child than a 20-year-old is, for instance, but the overall risk is only about 1 per cent to start with.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Delayed Fatherhood May Be Linked To Certain Congenital and Mental Disorders
An anonymous reader writes “A VP9 video decoder written for FFmpeg, FFvp9, now holds the title of being the world’s fastest VP9 video decoder. FFvp9 is faster than Google’s de facto VP9 decoder found in libvpx, but this doesn’t come as too much of a surprise given that FFmpeg also produced a faster VP8 video decoder than Google a few years back with both single and multi-threaded performance.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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FFmpeg’s VP9 Decoder Faster Than Google’s
Listen to this young girl playing her sheng , a Chinese instrument invented thousands of years ago. The woodwind may be ancient, but the sound is pure 1980s nostalgia—it’s the Super Mario Brothers theme, right down to the sounds of Mario collecting coins and mushrooms. Amazing! Read more…
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This Centuries-Old Musical Instrument Sounds Exactly Like Super Mario
It’s happened to all of us. You get back to your car after a delicious brunch or productive visit to the bookstore only to find a demonic little slip of paper tucked under your windshield wiper. “But the meter was broken!” you think. “I’m going to contest this!” you say to yourself. No, you’re not. Read more…
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This New App Wants to Fight Your Parking Tickets For You