At first thought, an e-ink smartphone sounds like a terrible idea. Ugh, all that lag. But think about the light weight, low cost, and insane battery life, and you can see why eInk, the company behind the screen in Nooks and Kindles, is pushing its new prototype phone hard. More »
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An E-Ink Android Would Only Need Charging Once a Week
Firefighters will actually be able to see through flames thanks to infrared hologram technology, a new study in Italy has found. More »
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New Infrared Tech Will Let Firemen See Through Flames
According to a report obtained by The Verge , analysts from Florida-based Internet security firm Cymru have uncovered a massive foreign hacking enterprise that has somehow managed to steal more than a terabyte of data per day. Confirmed international targets include military and academic facilities in addition to a major search engine, among others. More »
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Overseas Hackers Have Been Snatching More Than 1TB of Data Per Day
Forget coffee. Forget juice. Forget milk, damnit. Mountain Dew wants you wash down your Wheaties with an energy drink. Nope. Nope. Nope. We’re not going to do that. More »
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Mountain Dew KickStart: You’re Supposed to Drink This for Breakfast
There is a 22-foot-long, 200-ton steel monster under Manhattan . Dead, resting deep somewhere under Grand Central Station and Park Avenue, this machine and her twin brother excavated the massive tunnels that you can see here, one of the largest public transportation works of our time. More »
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Incredible Images of the Massive New Tunnels Hollowing New York City
What happens when you transfuse the 2,200 HP electric drive train from the world’s fastest and most powerful production electric car, the Mercedes SLS AMG Coupé Electric Drive, into a 38-foot racing hull? You get the world’s fastest and most powerful production electric speed boat. Duh. More »
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The World’s Fastest Electric Boat Skims Over the Sea at 86 Knots
Anyone who’s ever had a couple of drinks knows that as fun as it can be, sometimes it’d be nice if you could just make all that haze go away, right away. There’s no solution for your average drunk yet, but researchers at MIT have managed to put together an injection that can turn a party mouse into a stone-cold sober one practically on the spot. More »
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New Nanocapsule Medicine Could Sober You Up in Seconds
We’ve shown you how to load up your ereaders with free ebooks , and Project Guttenberg is a great place to do it. Recently, they made accessing their catalog of 42,000 free ebooks that much easier by adding Dropbox integration. More »
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Project Guttenberg Adds Dropbox Support, Perfect for Syncing to All Your Devices
Space is noticeably short on gas stations, requiring spacecraft to carry huge reserves of expensive and cumbersome propellant which limits their range. But with NASA’s newest Sun-powered propulsion concept, future astronauts could sail to the stars on solar winds. More »
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The World’s Biggest Solar Sail Launches Next Year
It sounds like the plot of a movie: two major software corporations join together to shut down an evil global cyber crime operation and engage in wacky hijinks along the way. While the latter can be neither confirmed nor denied, according to an exclusive report by Reuters , Microsoft and Symantec did shut down servers that had been controlling hundreds of thousands of PCs without their users being any the wiser. More »
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Microsoft and Symantec Just Busted a Major Cyber Crime Ring