This is a great idea: buy a landscape at a thrift shop and add in a monster. Make sure you use the same kind of materials as the original landscape! Read more…
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Spice up Goodwill paintings by adding monsters
All of a sudden, it’s the 23rd Century. The UK’s government innovation board has just approved funding to begin implementing an all-in-one train/bus/subway/airline pass in 2014. And yes, the actually named it MultiPass after the thing from the Bruce Willis movie. Read more…
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London Will Soon Have Fifth Element Style MultiPass For Public Transit
Quantum computing will change our world. But currently, it’s just about impossible . Qubits, the bits that power quantum computing, require crazy-cold temps to create, and they only survive about 3 minutes at room temp. Now, a research team has made room-temp qubits last for 39 minutes. That’s monumental. Read more…
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Scientists Shatter Quantum Computing Bit Life Record By Over Ten Times
Google Play Music has always sort of been available on iOS through your favorite HTML 5-enabled browser app, but today, the service is available as a native application . Read more…
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The Google Play Music iOS App Is Finally Here
Like a modern Henri Becquerel , Washington State University doctoral student Marianne Tarun’s discovery came quite by accident. Her simple lab error has uncovered a new way to boost electrical conductivity of a crystal by 40, 000 percent, simply by exposing it to light. Read more…
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Student Finds Way to Boost Conductivity 400x Totally by Accident
Google Wallet and iOS’s Passbook have helped reduce the number of loyalty, debit, and credit cards we need to carry around every day. But they haven’t eliminated them altogether. The creators of Coin want to further slim your wallet with a multi-function card designed to emulate and replace the debit and credit cards you still need to carry. Read more…
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This Single Card Wants To Replace Your Entire Wallet Full of Plastic
Using a powerful new software program called the Scientific Exoplanets Renderer (SER), astronomer Abel Mendez Torres has produced a stunning set of new images — including a global map — showing the distant dwarf planet of Pluto in unprecedented detail. Read more…
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The surface of Pluto like you’ve never seen it before
Everyone loves talking about 3D printing , but now it’s really hitting the big time: Rolls-Royce has decided that it’s going to use the technology to help make its airplane engines. Read more…
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Rolls-Royce Is Going to 3D Print Its Airplane Engine Parts
In a post today on Facebook, the company’s Data Center Energy Manager Vincent Van Son announced that its new data center in Iowa will be powered solely by wind energy . That’s right: Our insatiable hunger for online validation is indirectly helping to develop sustainable energy. Read more…
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Facebook’s Giant New Data Center Will Be Powered By Wind Alone
As the pace of robotic integration into the modern workforce continues to increase, automatons are finding their way into an ever wider variety of industries. Already making an impact in the agricultural sector , automatons are now poised to perform the task of driving massive, house-sized mining trucks—a job once held only by highly-skilled and highly-paid human drivers. Read more…
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These Autonomous Dump Trucks Let Mines Operate Around the Clock