Until now, Spotify’s free accounts provided unlimited as-supported streaming via its desktop client for six months, until it then imposed a cap on your streaming. Now, though, that cap is being scrapped. Read more…
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Spotify Now Provides Unlimited Free Music on its Desktop App
We already know that the NSA intercepts computer deliveries to introduce backdoors into hardware , but now a story in the New York Times suggests that the Agency uses radio technology to spy on 100, 000 computers that aren’t connected to the internet. Read more…
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The NSA Uses Radio Waves to Monitor 100,000 Computers Without Internet
A new report by the BBC reveals that China isn’t just experimenting with cloning—it’s doing it on an “industrial scale.” Which is at best interesting and at worst more than a small cause for concern. Read more…
Just when you think that sex ed in high school and posters at clinics have covered all the times it is necessary to use protection, the human body (and various microbes) throw yet another horrifying sex scenario at you. We now suspect that people can get sexually transmitted food poisoning. Read more…
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There is such a thing as sexually transmitted food poisoning
It might look understated, but you’re looking at the most functionally complex integrated quantum circuit ever made from a single material—and it can both generate photons and entangle them, all at the same time. Read more…
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This Is the Most Complex Integrated Quantum Circuit Ever Made
Photographer Olivier Grunewald first learned about the Kawah Ijen volcano in 2008. A sulfur mine by day, this infernal Indonesian mountain turns into a surreal alien landscape when the night comes. His pictures—taken in very dangerous conditions—are stunning: Read more…
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Spectacular blue lava flows at this Indonesian volcano
If you want to squeeze every last ounce of processing power out of your new computer or aging system, overclocking is a great—if slightly nerve-racking—option. Here are some simple guidelines for safely overclocking your processor. Read more…
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A Beginner’s Introduction to Overclocking Your Intel Processor
Nine women in Sweden have successfully undergone transplant surgery that saw them receive donor wombs from their relatives. Read more…
How distorting are map projections? Here’s what four commonly used systems of projection do to a human head. Read more…
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This is how map projections warp your understanding of geography
Birds singing, frogs croaking, animals walking, the sound of rain hitting trees, ponds, and the wet soil—if you listen to this video with your headphones you would believe you’re listening to the recording of a rainforest. But the truth is that you’re listening to space: Read more…
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Awesome recording of space sounds exactly like a tropical rainforest