Earlier this week, Elon Musk announced that he would publish an alpha design for his crazy-sounding “Hyperloop” by August 12. According to Musk , the diagram above is as close as anyone has gotten to figuring out how the super-fast transit technology might work. And it seems bonkers. Read more…
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The Best Guess at How Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Transit Fantasy Might Work
With so many flavors of Linux and the awesome apps in their repositories, finding the right app for getting things done can be tough. In our fifth annual Lifehacker Pack for Linux, we’re highlighting the must-have downloads for better productivity, communication, media management, and more. Read more…
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Lifehacker Pack for Linux 2013: Our List of the Best Linux Apps
Scientists have discovered a pair of viruses that defy classification. Bigger and more genetically complex than any viral genus known to science, these so-called “pandoraviruses” could reignite a longstanding debate over the classification of life itself. Read more…
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Newly discovered “Pandoravirus" could redefine life as we know it
One in every thousand or so babies born today will suffer from Down Syndrome, a genetic disorder caused by the presence of a third copy of chromosome 21 that results in learning disabilities, a heightened risk of bowel and blood diseases, and a severely heightened risk of dementia later in life. But a radical new genome treatment method could hold the key to turning off that extra chromosome 21 like a light. Read more…
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Scientists May Have Found a Genomic Off Switch for Down Syndrome
Unless you’re constantly messing around with your iPhone’s settings, most people don’t dig into the Accessibility features in iOS unless they need to solve a specific problem. That said, there’s actually a few great features hidden in those options that everyone can make use of, even if you don’t need them. Read more…
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The Secret Powers Hidden in Your iPhone’s Accessibility Options
The Wall Street Journal reports unnamed sources that say Google has approached big media companies about licensing TV shows for a streaming television service it wants to launch. Intel and Apple have also been working on similar services. [ WSJ ] Read more…
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Report: Google Wants to Make a Streaming Television Service
A few weeks ago, we wrote about a tiny micro-bot designed to be injected into a patient’s eye and controlled via magnet—a speck-sized eye surgeon. This week, a group of Berkeley researchers published a study positing a similar concept, except the ‘bots are inside your brain . And they’re the size of dust particles. It’s called neural dust. Of course. Read more…
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Brave New UI: A Fleet of Dust-Sized Sensors Embedded In Your Brain
Microsoft has released an Outlook app for iPhone and for iPad , called OWA (Office Web App). It makes the version of Outlook available with an Office 365 subscription (note: not the free Outlook.com service) and wraps it into a touch- and swipe-friendly iOS app. Office 365 is required. See more details on the Office blog . Read more…
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Microsoft has released an Outlook app for iPhone and for iPad, called OWA (Office Web App).
GroupMe’s a lifechanger . You should use it. Today it got emoji (good) that for some insane reason use its logo in place of a human head, and then attach things like beards and devil horns and headphones to it (uhh). Read more…
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GroupMe, Still Awesome, Now with Emoji That Look Mostly Insane
Amazon Prime just added hundreds of Miramax titles in its instant video library, including award winners like Good Will Hunting and The English Patient , as well as cult favorites like Pulp Fiction , Kill Bill , Trainspotting and Reservoir Dogs . It’s a good get for the streaming service, especially after having lost so many of its greatest hits at the end of last month. Read more…
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Amazon Prime just added hundreds of Miramax titles in its instant video library, including award win