The Federal Register , the daily journal of the United States government, still uses floppy disks to carry out important tasks , including the transfer of the text of executive orders, proposed rule changes, and presidential proclamations. Yes, floppy disks. Read more…
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Federal Agency Still Uses Floppy Disks
As earth’s population surges, mankind faces an increasingly limited supply of fresh water. Thankfully, Australian scientists report this week that they’ve found vast new fresh water supplies. Unfortunately, it’s in one of earth’s least accessible places: under the ocean floor . Read more…
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Researchers Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Under Ocean Floors
On April Fool’s Day 2012 , ThinkGeek featured the Technomancer Digital Wizard Hoodie among their fake products. Now they’ve introduced the real thing, a hooded jacket that lights up and makes spell sounds based on the movement of the wearer’s arms. Read more…
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Light-up wizard hoodie transforms its wearer into a Technomancer
SkyGuide’s creator Nick Risinger had to travel more than 60, 000 miles by airplane and car to collect 37, 000 individual photos to create this single image, the largest true-color image of the entire sky ever made: 100, 000 by 50, 000 pixels. Read more…
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Largest true-color photo of the sky ever took 60,000 miles of travel
Record breaking low temperatures are hitting the country, and the bad news is that they’ll last into next week and are just getting started. If your home’s heating system isn’t up to snuff (or, if non-existent—hello Californians!) we recommend you check out these two space heaters, which we selected after 20 hours of research and testing by a physics PhD. Read more…
New York-based Proxy Design Studio has given Gizmodo a first glimpse of its incredible, 3D-printed spherical gear called the Mechaneu , equal parts tactile toy and mechanical sculpture, a mind-bogglingly precise intermeshing of wheels within wheels. Read more…
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Mind-Boggling Spherical Gear Made from 3D-Printed Moving Parts
Last year, Verizon bought $3.6 billion worth of spectrum, and now it’s finally making use of it: its LTE coverage just got three times faster in some big cities . Read more…
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Verizon’s LTE Just Got Three Times Faster in a Bunch of Big Cities
Futurists have long speculated that nanotechnology — the engineering of materials and devices at the molecular scale — will revolutionize virtually every field it touches, medicine being no exception. Here’s what to expect when you have fleets of molecule-sized robots coursing through your veins. Read more…
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How Medical Nanotech Will Change Humanity Forever
Since Bluetooth was given an overhaul in 2010 with the 4.0 standard, it’s surged in popularity, being used in everything from wireless speakers to smartwatches. Now, the connection is getting a shot in the arm—and it should help save your battery. Read more…
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Bluetooth Is Getting an Intelligence Boost to Save Your Battery
Hanjie Wanda Square, a high-end mall designed by Dutch architects UNStudio, opened in the Chinese city of Wuhan this week. There are 42, 300 stainless steel orbs strung along the facade, each embedded with an LED that, together, turn the building’s skin into a multi-colored screen at night. [ Domus ; image by Edmon Leong ] Read more…
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Hanjie Wanda Square, a high-end mall designed by Dutch architects UNStudio, opened in the Chinese ci