The hardest part of building a PC is picking the parts, especially when everyone around you seems to have an opinion. And no flame war is more prevalent than the NVIDIA snobs vs the AMD fanboys. What’s really going on with these two companies, and which card should you get? Read more…
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PC Graphics Card Showdown: NVIDIA vs. AMD
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, right? That, at least, is the motto the European Space Agency seems to have embraced with respect to two wayward satellites, which are being repurposed to provide the most accurate assessment yet of how gravity affects the passage of time. Read more…
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A Satellite Mishap Is Allowing Physicists to Test Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
The cockroach is a resilient little beast, and now it turns out they have the proverbial jaws of death. They can bite with a force 50 times stronger than their own body weight, and with five times more force than a human being. Read more…
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A Cockroach Can Bite Five Times Stronger Than a Human
If you take the Empire State building, flipped it over to the side, and then put it in the ocean, it would be smaller than some of the world’s largest ships. That’s how big these behemoths of the sea are, more gigantic than skyscrapers. Oil tankers, container ships, pipe-laying vessels, yachts, sailing boats, cruise ships and more, we’ve got all the world’s largest ships still in service today. At times, the scale is just unfathomable. Read more…
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Here are all of the world’s biggest ships at sea
iOS: Castro is one our favorite podcast managers on iOS because it’s easy to use, has a few clever management options, and works great for people who only listen to a few podcasts. Today, the apps gone free while adding in a bunch of new iOS 9 features. Read more…
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Castro, the Simplest iOS Podcast Manager, Adds iOS 9 Features and Goes Free
Time Warner Cable has announced that it’s going to perform a trial run in which it will allow customers in New York City and New Jersey to use a Roku instead of its usual cable box. Read more…
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Time Warner Cable Is Trialling Roku in Place of Cable Boxes
We’ve all been in that unfortunate situation when we’re lost with no reception, and our phone’s navigation features are neutered as a result. Now, Google is offering a dead simple solution. You can download snippets of the world for offline navigation and search. Read more…
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Google Finally Lets You Download Maps for Offline Navigation and Search