Cortana is Windows Phone’s answer to Siri and Google Now : A voice-activated artificially intelligent personal assistant with an only slightly off-putting robot voice. Technically , she’s still in beta on Windows 8.1, but PhoneBuff is here to show us 50 things Cortana can already do . Read more…
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50 Things Cortana Can Do Right Now (Compared To Siri and Google Now)
Summer Hack Day just wrapped up at Netflix headquarters, with company folks cranking out a whole bunch of silly, charming, harebrained ideas. Our favorite has got to be this Oculus Rift-powered, gesture-controlled setup. Pick your favorite movie or TV show like Professor X using Cerebro! Read more…
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Netflix Hack Lets You Browse Movies In 3D With Oculus Rift
Getting a fully-laden cargo ship across an entire ocean requires enormous amounts of energy—usually derived from pollutant-rich diesel fuel. But one environmentally-minded shipping company has bucked that convention and instead begun construction on a pair of hybrid containerships—the first of their kind—that run primarily on cleaner burning liquefied natural gas. Read more…
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The World’s Largest Natural Gas-Powered Ships Are Almost Ready to Sail
Exhaustive analysis into the price of Lego bricks has revealed that parents of children who like both Lego and trains are getting the metaphorical brick in the sole of the foot treatment—with train sets bucking the trend and costing more than their less thrilling equivalents. Read more…
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Lego Trains are the Worst Value Sets in Per-Brick Pricing
Apple just released the latest build of OS X Yosemite, including a brand new iTunes. It’s only a little bit anti-climactic. Version 12.0 does indeed look a lot like Version 11.3, the version that’s probably on your computer. But it’s got some neat little treats nevertheless. Read more…
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Everything That’s Changed in the New iTunes 12.0
This video captured on a beach in Novosibirsk, Siberia, looks like a scene from a movie about the end of the world. People were enjoying a perfect sunny day—with temperatures of 99F (37C)—when bullet-sized hail started strafing the beach while everyone were running for their lives in panic. Read more…
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Amazing hail storm on a beach looks like the beginning of the Apocalypse
From Truck Yeah! : The US Marines have been planning up the “Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connector (UHAC) to replace their beach-storming hovercrafts since 2008. They started building this one in 2012, and have finally brought out of the garage for a little test drive. Read more…
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US Marines Turned A Ship Into A Truck, Watch It Be An Absolute Beast
NFC, or Near-Field Communication , is useful for all sorts of things , but you can also use it to lock or unlock your PC when you sit down to work. The Electrodog Show , over at Instructables, shows us how do set it up. Read more…
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Use NFC Tags to Unlock Your Computer
When George Laurer goes to the grocery store, he doesn’t tell the check-out people that he invented the barcode, but his wife used to point it out. “My husband here’s the one who invented that barcode, ” she’d occasionally say. And the check-out people would look at him like, “you mean there was a time when we didn’t have barcodes?” Read more…
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The Untold History of Where Barcodes Come From
sciencehabit writes “In 2010, workers widening a remote stretch of highway near the northwestern coast of Chile uncovered a trove of fossils, including the skeletons of at least 30 large baleen whales. The fossils—which may be up to 9 million years old—are the first definitive examples of ancient mass strandings of whales, according to a new study. The work also fingers a possible culprit.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Find Along Chilean Highway Suggests Ancient Mass Stranding of Whales