Piracy is a dangerous game. You never know if the hosts are out to get money , or maybe just out to get you . Turns out the guy who ran a pirate haven called Uploader Talk was the latter. Now, after a year of stealing uploader’s info from deep cover, the jig is up . Read more…
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Magnificent Asshole Reveals Popular Piracy Site Was a Trap All Along
In recent years, we’ve watched with wonder as boring old yellow halogen car headlights have been replaced with futuristic, Tron -like LEDs . Now, that transition is about to take place on the city scale, as New York City prepares to replace its street lamps—all 250, 000 of them—with LEDs. Read more…
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NYC Is Replacing Its 250,000 Street Lights with LEDs
You have to crawl before you can walk—be you a baby or an asteroid-blasting space cannon. Now, after a successful test-fire here on Earth, Japan’s specially made cannon for its Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is ready to take its first, real steps in outer space. Read more…
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Japan Just Successfully Tested Its Asteroid-Shattering Space Cannon
There are more than 450 artificial caves excavated from sandstone beneath the streets and buildings of Nottingham, England—including, legendarily, the old dungeon that once held Robin Hood. Not all of these caves are known even today, let alone mapped or studied. Read more…
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Laser-Scanning Hundreds of Artificial Caves Beneath Nottingham
If/When you download a torrent full of juicy copyrighted content (shame on you!), you’re not paying anyone; that’s part of the appeal. But there’s money to be made off sharing stuff for free, otherwise why would anyone do it? Torrentfreak sat down with a professional pirate to hear his story . It’s fascinating. Read more…
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How an Illegal Streaming Kingpin Makes a Living Off Piracy
Hey remember Twitter Music ? Hadn’t thought about it in a while? Well apparently that’s a common problem, and according to a report by AllThingsD, Twitter is very seriously considering putting the service out of its misery . Read more…
Those long dark stretches of highway out in the middle of nowhere without any streetlights might soon be a thing of the past thanks to the engineers and designers at the Netherlands-based Kaal Masten . They’ve created the Spirit, a standalone solar-powered streetlight that gets all the energy it needs from the sun, so it can be installed and provide lighting anywhere—even remote locations without access to power grids. Read more…
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Self-Contained Solar-Powered Streetlights Stay Completely Off the Grid
Having been burned when it used Photoshop to make its military seem more mighty, North Korea has apparently gone the analog route. That “military cargo plane” from a few weeks back? Nothing more than a short loan from Air Koryo and a cheap coat of camo. Read more…
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North Korea Used Camo Paint to Pass Off Civilian Planes as Military
When most people hear the word “drone, ” they probably picture a cockpit-free plane zipping over the Iraqi desert. But there’s more to it than that. The Army is in the process of adopting a whole new generation of unmanned vehicles that will assist soldiers on the battlefield—and they’re by far the scariest remote-controlled cars you’ll ever see. Read more…
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These Next Generation Drones Carry Gear and Machine Guns into Battle
Still upset about breaking the handle on your favorite mug? A 3D printer can make it as good as new, and thanks to researchers at the University of Southern California, the process is even easier now since they’ve developed a printer that can build directly on curved surfaces. Read more…
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This Insane Six-Axis 3D Printer Even Works On Curved Surfaces