Toonz, the software used to create Studio Ghibli films like Spirited Away and TV shows like Steven Universe and Futurama, is now OpenToonz. It’s open source and free for any budding animator to download and use. Read more…
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OpenToonz, the 2D Animation Software Used by Studio Ghibli, Is Now Free
Organizers for California’s high-speed train just announced that when their bullet train opens, it’ll start service out of the Bay Area, not Southern California like originally planned. Read more…
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California’s Bullet Train Will Now Start In the Bay Area—Which Might Save It
One day we might be able to make home refrigerators without any chemicals or industrial coolants. The main hope for this comes from a special property of metal and a quirk of entropy. Read more…
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Magnetic Refrigeration is a Real Thing. Here’s How it Works.
What happens when you take one of the world’s best cartoon strips and remix it with some random process math? Wonderful gibberish is what. Read more…
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This Is What Happens When You Remix Calvin and Hobbes Using Math
In-flight WiFi is great (because Snapchat on planes!) but also terrible (because paying $12 for two hours of dial-up era internet), something that AT&T was planning to change by offering its own in-flight WiFi. Sadly, AT&T just announced that it’s nuking that idea. Read more…
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AT&T’s Killing Its In-Flight WiFi Plans
Even when the elderly are being tended to by a caregiver, it’s almost impossible to keep an eye on them 100 percent of the time. So a Japanese company has developed a pair of LED light bulbs featuring built-in laser-based radar to track the movements of someone in its vicinity, and automatically send alerts when they have fallen or suddenly stopped moving. Read more…
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Radar-Enabled Light Bulbs Automatically Detect When the Elderly Fall
Listen to it! That’s Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko singing. This cosmic song was just discovered by the European Space Agency, which released the soundtrack for our enjoyment. It’s totally new and unexpected, say the scientists who will remotely land a probe on the rocky surface of the comet tomorrow. Read more…
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Rosetta’s Comet Is Singing and You Can Listen To It Here
Some things are better left untouched. Really3D, the hilarious YouTube channel that animates classics into ridiculous 3D renders , proves that with a gagful 3D animation of the 1928 classic Steamboat Willie. You know, the short film that first introduced the world to Mickey Mouse. The 3D version of the classic is so bad and terrifying it’s amazing. Read more…
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Seeing the original 1928 Mickey Mouse animated in 3D is terrifying
mvar writes “Various sources report that a few days ago at CinemaCon Disney announced their plan to release, following the 2015 JJ Abrams Episode VII, a new Star Wars movie every 1 (one, uno, une) year. Yep, get your stomachs ready, because that’s a lot of Jar Jar Binks.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Disney Announces “One Star Wars Movie Per Year” Plan
The building blocks of life could have their beginnings in the tiny icy grains that make up the gas and dust found between the stars, and those icy grains could be the key to understanding how life can arise on planets. With help from students, researchers have discovered an important pair of prebiotic molecules in the icy particles in interstellar space. The chemicals, found in a giant cloud of gas about 25,000 light-years from Earth may be a precursor to a key component of DNA and another may have a role in the formation of an important amino acid. More »
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The “ultimate” building blocks of life have been found in interstellar space