In advance of the holidays, PayPal is rolling out support for those pesky pre-paid gift cards from credit companies like Visa. No more wondering whether your favorite online retailer will take your card. If they take PayPal, they take the lazy gift from your aunt. Read more…
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The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reports on the discovery of a “reverse shock wave racing inward at Mach 1000” in the Tycho’s supernova remnant, making its particles glow as you can see in the photograph above. If you think the idea of a shockwave traveling inward is counterintuitive, you aren’t alone. This is what’s happening: Read more…
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This is a space shockwave traveling 1000 times faster than sound
Have you ever noticed that how you drive is often based on what you’re listening to? Softer music can make you a more cautious driver, while loud upbeat tunes make you more aggressive. But with this new app from VW it’s the other way around. It generates music in real-time based on how you already drive, so your habits behind the wheel affect what’s being played on your sound system. Read more…
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Volkswagen’s New App Creates Music Based On Your Driving Style
A dig at the suspected birthplace of the Buddha has led to the discovery of an unknown timber structure beneath a series of brick temples. Remarkably, it’s the first known archaeological evidence linking the life of the Buddha to a specific century. Read more…
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Incredible Archaeological Discovery May Reset the Buddha’s Birth Date
No company out there wants to admit it, but the fact is, there’s always a reasonable chance they’ll get hacked. If they don’t encrypt your data, those hacks reveal all kinds of information about you very easily. So, to see who’s doing encryption well, the Electronic Frontier Foundation decided to come up with a chart that looks at a number of the big companies. Read more…
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This Infographic Shows Which Sites Properly Encypt Your Data
Blue Screen of Insomnia. Designers Chris Noessel and Nathan Shedroff analyzed screen colors in tons of science fiction movies, and concluded that future computer screens would be tinted blue. Which is bad news, since our eyes are hypersensitive to blue light, and it keeps us from sleeping . Read more…
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Blue Screen of Insomnia.
When it comes to super materials, graphene seems to get all the attention . But a team of researchers has developed Stanene: a single layer of tin atoms that could just be the world’s first material to conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency at the temperatures that computers work at. Read more…
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Move Over Graphene: The Wonder Conductor of the Future May Be Stanene
There’s nothing like some casual rock precipitation to make you glad you packed your umbrella. Read more…
While we await “The Day of the Doctor, ” the BBC invites us to travel back in Doctor Who history with an infographic sure to keep fans busy until they watch the 50th anniversary special. Read more…
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Interactive graphic shows the timelines of the Eleven Doctors
Wine is old as hell and probably came from Israel, based on the discovery of a 3, 700 year-old cellar in the city of Tel Kabri. What did the wine of yesteryear taste like? Accounts range from “medicinal” to “hints of cinnamon.” Read more…
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The Discovery of a 3,700-Year-Old Cellar Reveals the Origins of Wine