Looks like there’s a new candidate for most awesome supermaterial in town. Dentists may soon start fighting bone loss by covering our teeth in itty bitty nanodiamonds, making repairing teeth quicker, cheaper, and much less painful. Read more…
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Dentists May Start Covering Teeth in Growth-Stimulating Diamond Dust
NYPD has a message for you iPhone and iPad folks pic.twitter.com/cxzHLpgh60 — Jim Rosenberg (@jimrosenberg) September 21, 2013 Read more…
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The NYPD Really, Really Wants You to Upgrade to iOS 7
We just ran benchmarks on Apple’s new iPhone 5S, revealing that, yup, this is the dopest smartphone silicon ever made. This thing freaking churns, crushing every other smartphone out there on both computational power and graphics. But if you look at common specs like core-count and clock speed for the hardware, you’d never know it. Read more…
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iPhone A7 Chip Benchmarks: Forget the Specs, It Blows Everything Away
The ace team at iFixit is currently gutting the iPhone 5S , as only they can, to see what’s new inside the next iPhone. What’s the fingerprint scanner look like on the inside? What about all those fancy new chips? And how’s that goldpagne? Read more…
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The iPhone 5S Teardown: Everything New Is on the Inside
Imagine a smartphone you can roll up and slip into your shirt pocket. Or a tablet that can be folded like a newspaper and slipped in your back pocket. It’s an idea that’s been tossed around in science fiction for a years, but now it’s a small step closer to reality because researchers at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China have developed the world’s first flexible silicon . Read more…
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The First Flexible Silicon Paper Could Revolutionize Mobile Gadgets
New Yorkers have a history of experimenting with pneumatic tubes—both for mail delivery (seen above) and public transit —but only one version ever really stuck: An automated vacuum trash collection system beneath the streets of Roosevelt Island. According to two recent studies , this 40-year-old relic might hold the key to developing new pneumatic systems—and it could help to solve NYC’s garbage problem. Read more…
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The Not-So-Crazy Plan to Solve NYC’s Trash Woes With Pneumatic Tubes
Google just announced its most recent plan in a long list of crazy moonshots. This one isn’t self-driving cars or internet in the sky, instead it’s a company called Calico that’s going to try and put an end to aging and disease . Read more…
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Calico: Google’s Ambitious New Project to Stop Illness and Aging
The first flight of the Cyngus, a new experimental spacecraft, lit off at 10:58AM today from NASA’s newly popular Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia . The Cygnus is an unmanned cargo vessel, and for this test mission it’s carrying about 1, 300 pounds of supplies to the three astronauts currently orbiting in the ISS. Read more…
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An Experimental Cargo Ship Launched For the ISS Today
While most of the supertall building boom spotlight has been placed China and the UAE over the past few months, there’s an even more staggering development happening much, much closer to home. At least four 1, 000-foot-plus skyscrapers are set to rise along (or adjacent to) West 57th Street over the next few years, each of the tall enough to change America’s skyline forever. Read more…
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Four of America’s Tallest Buildings Are Being Built on the Same Street
E-ZPass is probably the best thing that’s ever happened to paying tolls. Those plastic funnels you toss coins into are a close second. But E-ZPass has a bonus feature. It can be used to track you everywhere you go . Read more…
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E-ZPass Is the Best Tracking Device That’s Already in Your Car