Amazon is working on plans to open hundreds of brick-and-mortar bookstores, according to a new report from CNBC . Yes, following in the steps of chains like Borders, Amazon apparently thinks that the future is in deadtrees. Read more…
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Shryne for iPhone Lets You Download and Archive Your Own Social History
iOS/OS X: Services like Facebook, Instagram, and Google Hangouts all have their own archives, but they can be tricky to download and organize, if you can at all. Shryne is an iPhone app (and companion desktop tool) that puts you in control, and lets you download, archive, and organize it all. Read more…
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Shryne for iPhone Lets You Download and Archive Your Own Social History
This Babylonian Astronomy Text Changes History
More than a thousand years before the first telescopes, Babylonian astronomers tracked the motion of planets across the night sky using simple arithmetic. But a newly translated text reveals that these ancient stargazers also used a far more advanced method, one that foreshadows the development of calculus over a thousand years later. Read more…
How A Tesla With Autopilot Forced Us To Take The Road Trip Of The Past
The weird thing about the road trip of the future is that it’s much more like the road trips we used to take in our past than anything else. My coworkers and I just did 1400-odd miles in an electric Tesla Model S that could also drive itself. It wasn’t just the trip of the future. It was the way things used to be, too. Read more…
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How A Tesla With Autopilot Forced Us To Take The Road Trip Of The Past
Search Is Crashing Safari on iOS and OS X (and How to Fix It)
If Safari is crashing when you search from the address bar this morning, you’re not alone. It seems the browser is facing difficulties on both iOS and OS X. Read more…
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Search Is Crashing Safari on iOS and OS X (and How to Fix It)
A Health Insurer Lost Six Hard Drives Holding Data About 1 Million Customers
The health insurer Centene has admitted that it’s performing an “ongoing comprehensive internal search” for six hard drives. Sadly, those hard drives contain personal details about 1 million of its customers. Oops. Read more…
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A Health Insurer Lost Six Hard Drives Holding Data About 1 Million Customers
Here’s a Homemade Exoskeleton Jacking Up a Small Car
There’s all sorts of expensive R&D facilities working frantically to make body-enhancing skeletons into actual things, but the research isn’t limited just to big companies. Two years ago, a YouTuber showed off his Elysium -inspired suit curling 170lbs; last weekend, he decided to life a Mini Cooper. Read more…
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Here’s a Homemade Exoskeleton Jacking Up a Small Car
ZCast Makes Podcasting and Live Streaming One-Touch Easy
iOS: Podcasting can be a tricky business to get into, but ZCast for iPhone, just launched, makes it as easy as downloading an app, pressing record, and letting your stream fly. The service even integrates with Twitter, so you can let people know you’re broadcasting so they can tune in live. Read more…
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This Is What Happens When You Let a Neural Network Design Fonts
Neural networks are increasingly taking on jobs that used to be the preserve of the human brain . So Erik Bernhardsson decided to see what would happen if he threw 50, 000 fonts at a neural network and left it to chew through them. The results, it turns out, are pretty interesting. Read more…
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This Is an X-Ray of the Earth’s Aurora
This planet’s aurora are a spectacular sight, but you’ve probably never seen them quite like this. You’re looking at a view of them as seen by the European Space Agency’s Integral space observatory, which captured how they look as an X-ray. Read more…
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This Is an X-Ray of the Earth’s Aurora