After some conjecture earlier this week surrounding the re-release of some older PS2 Star Wars games, Sony has come out and confirmed that PS2 games are coming to the PS4 courtesy of emulation. Read more…
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PS2 Emulation Coming To The PS4
There are more than 2, 250 satellites orbiting the Earth right now. But that abstract number didn’t prepare me for the shock of watching a Soviet-era rocket body whipping over my house in real-time. Read more…
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Find Your House On This Map and Watch the Satellites Passing Above You
In 2003, a rudimentary Flash animation called “The End of the World” appeared on eBaum’s World . It spread like a virus in the pre-smartphone, pre-YouTube era. Ever wonder what happened to the teen who made it? Read more…
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What Happened to the Guy Who Created the World’s First Viral Video?
One of the Air Force Special Operations Command’s brand-spanking-new AC-130J Ghostrider Gunships has to be scrapped due to a test flight that went horribly awry. Luckily nobody was harmed but the $115 million dollar highly-modified Super Hercules will never fly again. Read more…
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Brand New AC-130 Ghostrider A Total Loss After Going Inverted While Out Of Control
If a friend told you he was off to take a dip in Baltimore’s Harbor, you’d probably be concerned for his health and sanity. But five years from now, swimming in Baltimore’s waterways might not sound so crazy—and there’s an innovative piece of technology to thank. Read more…
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Baltimore’s Stealthy Plan to Make Its Harbor Swimmable By 2020
Sometimes a unique design isn’t enough to make a product a hit, but then it makes an appearance in a major motion picture and suddenly everyone wants one. Let’s call it the DeLorean BTTF effect, and that’s exactly what happened with the Seiko Giugiaro 7A28-7000 once Ripley wore it in Aliens . Read more…
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Seiko Is Re-issuing the Futuristic Watch Ripley Wore In Aliens
Yesterday, Intel announced that it’s putting its insane 72-core Knight’s Landing’ supercomputer chip—its fastest ever—into production. But perhaps more exciting is the fact that it has plans to ship desktop workstations that contain the face-melting computational powerhouse. Read more…
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Intel Plans to Put Its Insane 8-Teraflop Supercomputer Chips Into a Desktop
Twenty years ago, construction workers in the Israeli town of Lod working under a city street came across something extraordinary: A massive mosaic, laid down almost two millennia before. Now, they’ve found another . Read more…
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These Huge Roman Mosaics Were Hidden Under City Streets For 1,700 Years
An artificial intelligence program received such high scores on a standardized test that it’d have an 80% chance of getting into a Japanese university. Read more…
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An AI Program in Japan Just Passed a College Entrance Exam
Battery life is one of the biggest headaches in tech—but while capacity remains a problem, manufacturers are at least making big improvements to charge times. Like Huawei, whose new experimental set-up can take a dead battery to 48 percent change in about five minutes. Read more…
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Huawei’s Researhers Can Charge a 3,000mAh Battery to 48% in 5 Minutes