Behold the Pertamina Energy Tower, a U.S.-designed building that’s slated for construction in Jakarta, Indonesia. Reaching a height of a half-kilometer, the tower will harvest its own wind energy through an opening at its peak. Read more…
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This gorgeous skyscraper is also a wind power plant
You don’t think it’s only laptop, tablet, and smartphone designers that go the extra mile to make their devices thinner and thinner do you? Watch makers are constantly battling each other for the same notoriety, and now Piaget has reclaimed the title of ‘world’s thinnest mechanical watch’ with its new Altiplano 38mm 900P that measures in at 3.65mm—making it thinner than many digital alternatives. Read more…
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World’s Thinnest Mechanical Watch Is as Thick as Two Stacked Quarters
We can only dream of soaring above the clouds, the way so many birds do. They swoop over our heads, taunting us with the freedom we’ll never have. But at least there are tons of bird-cam videos, which give you a birds-eye view of the world below. Read more…
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Fly with eagles in these breathtaking bird-cam videos
There may be an answer for people suffering from traumatic brain injuries. It’s a device called a brain-machine-brain interface — and it has the potential to revolutionize the way brain damage is treated in humans. Read more…
jfruh writes “Remember how social networks were going to transform the advertising industry because they’d tailor ads not to context or to your web browsing history, but to the innate preferences you express through interactions and relationships with friends? Well, that didn’t work with Facebook, and it turns out it’s not working with Twitter either. The microblogging site has announced that it’s getting into the ad retargeting game: you’ll soon start seeing promoted tweets that are chosen based on websites you’ve visited in the past. The innovation, if you can call it that, is that the retargeting will work across devices, so you can be looking at a website on your phone and see promoted tweets on your laptop’s browser, or vice versa.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Twitter Will Track Your Browsing To Sell Ads
In an effort to boost security, Microsoft added a few new features to you account. You can now see recent login activity, and recovery codes are available if you get locked out of an account with two factor authentication enabled. Read more…
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Microsoft Accounts Now Have Recent Activity, Recovery Codes
There’s been a ton of news about HealthCare.gov from the dark days of the rollout in October, to the slightly better days of now when the online healthcare exchange seems to be at a point of minimum reliability. If you found keeping up exhausting, you’re not alone. Read more…
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A Comprehensive Review of what Went Down with HealthCare.gov
Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of what would be dubbed the Higgs Boson, says that he wouldn’t cut it if he were entering academic science today. Keep in mind that this dude won a Nobel Prize for physics a few months ago. Read more…
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Peter Higgs Says He Would Never Make It in Science Today
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