By 2017, Dutch designer Joris Laarman plans to use his company’s MX3D metal printing technology to 3D print a 24-foot-long steel pedestrian bridge over an Amsterdam canal. (more…)
Excerpt from:
Company to 3D print a steel pedestrian bridge in mid-air
An anonymous reader points to an interesting comparison of current tablets’ peformance, as measured with the Geekbench benchmarking tool, which boils down various aspects of performance to produce a single number. The clear winner from the models fielded wasn’t from Apple of Samsung (Samsung’s entrants came much lower down, in fact), but from Microsoft: the i5-equipped Surface Pro 3, with a Geekbench score of 5069.; second place goes to the Apple iPad Air 2, with 4046. The Nexus 9 rated third, with 3537. One model on the list that U.S. buyers may not be familiar with is the Tesco Hudl 2, a bargain tablet which Trusted Reviews seems quite taken by. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Read the original post:
Surface Pro 3 Handily Outperforms iPad Air 2 and Nexus 9
This is a flexible mesh circuitry that Harvard nanotechnologists have injected via syringe into the heads of live mice to test a new way of monitoring brain signals from the inside. Read the rest
Follow this link:
Flexible circuit injected into living animals’ brains
See that up there? That’s the world’s first 10K television. You can’t buy it. Chinese display manufacturer BOE made the 82-inch screen just for the bragging rights (first!). That’s okay, though—there’s absolutely no reason to own a 10K TV right now. Read more…
View article:
The World’s First 10K TV Is Here and Utterly Unnecessary
Many of us know feeling of posting a regrettable pic or two online. But while your thoughtless photos might be an embarrassment, they (typically) aren’t offensive enough to merit a US Air Force strike. If you’re an terrorist, on the other hand, a wee bit more discretion is probably advised. Read more…
View the original here:
Air Force Uses ‘Moronic’ Selfie to Bomb ISIS Headquarters
An anonymous reader writes: A thread at the Skype community forums has brought to light a critical bug in Microsoft’s Skype clients for Windows, iOS and Android: typing the incorrect URL initiator http://: into a text message on Skype will crash the client so badly that it can only be repaired by installing an older version and awaiting a fix from Microsoft. The bug does not affect OS X or the ‘Metro’-style Windows clients — which means, effectively, that Mac users could kill the Skype installations on other platforms just by sending an eight-character message. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
See the original post:
Typing ‘http://:’ Into a Skype Message Trashes the Installation Beyond Repair
Intel has revealed all about its new Thunderbolt 3 specification at this year’s Computex conference, and it could be the port that best serves Apple’s single I/O vision of the MacBook’s future: Thunderbolt 3 uses a reversible USB-C connector, and includes USB 3.1 support, as well as increasing data transfer speed over Thunderbolt 2 by 100 percent to 40Gbps, and supporting use… Read More
Read the original:
Thunderbolt 3 Uses Reversible USB Type-C And Could Be The Ultimate Port
A newly discovered bug seems to cause Messages on iOS to crash when a specific string of text is received—and if it happens while the phone is locked, it also seems to reboot the iPhone too. Read more…
Continue reading here:
A Simple Text Can Crash Messages on any iPhone It’s Sent to
Plenty of people have compared the Apple Watch to the classic Casio calculator watch; these guys went ahead and made the inevitable app. Meet GeekWatch — the app that turns your Apple Watch into an old-school calculator watch. Read More
More:
This App Turns Your $600 Apple Watch Into A $20 Casio Calculator Watch
The California Seafloor Mapping Program is the most extensive of its kind, initiated in 2008 and bearing fruit in a series of beautiful maps. Read the rest
Read More:
Amazing sea floor maps reveal California’s offshore depths