The Federal Trade Commission has accused T-Mobile of placing hundreds of millions of dollars of bogus charges onto its customers’ phone bills. Read more…
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FTC: T-Mobile Took Hundreds of Millions of Bogus Charges on Phone Bills
If you work in a lab, you’ve probably used lab glass made from quartz. But you probably haven’t realized that the reason those test tubes are so durable is exactly what makes them so hard to mold. These beautiful GIFs, shot at GE’s Global Research in upstate New York, shows exactly what it takes to make those beakers. Read more…
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The Beautiful Process of Turning Quartz Into Lab Glass at 3,000 Degrees
This little superconducting magnet may look serene, but it in fact it’s a record breaker, capable of creating three metric tons of force. Read more…
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This Golf Ball-Sized Magnet Creates Three Metric Tons of Force
An old MUNI bus in San Francisco is getting a second life with a noble cause. Outfitted with toilets and showers, Lava Mae ‘s refurbished bus will bring mobile bathrooms to homeless people around the city. The long-awaited bus will make its first rounds this weekend . Read more…
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A Refurbished Bus Will Bring Showers to the Homeless in San Francisco
In some parts of the world a mosquito bite is a minor inconvenience that might result in a few days of uncomfortable itching. In other parts, though, the pests spread deadly diseases like malaria and dengue fever. So for the 2014 World Health Day, ad agency Leo Burnett created the world’s first mosquito-repelling newspaper in Sri Lanka. Read more…
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Citronella Ink Helps This Clever Newspaper Keep Mosquitoes At Bay
The late 1990s were a fascinating period in the evolution of cinema technology. Film, the only physical medium cinema had ever known, was slowly being replaced by newfangled digital technology. And it was in 2000 that the Academy Award winning film O Brother, Where Art Thou gorgeously illustrated the potential of digital filmmaking. Read more…
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O Brother, This Was the First Movie to Use All-Digital Color Grading
This symbol first showed up in the 1770s, appearing in documents of English-Americans who had business dealings with Spanish-Americans. However, it wasn’t until the very early 1800s that it became popularized, around the same time as the first official U.S. dollars were being minted. Previous to this, the symbol had already been in use as an abbreviation for names of Spanish currency, namely as an abbreviation for the Spanish peso “p”. Read more…
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Where the Dollar Sign Comes From
iOS 8 is just around the corner (and potentially unjailbreakable), but for folks who have found themselves stuck on the more recent 7.1.1 update and unable to jailbreak, there’s finally an option . Thrown together by as-yet untested Chinese developers Pangu, the untethered jailbreak is windows only, but works for all devices that can run 7.1.1. Read more…
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There’s Finally a Jailbreak for iOS 7.1.1
OneDrive just more than doubled its free-storage offering, bringing it up to 15GB . That’s the same amount you’ll get with Google Drive. On top of that, all versions of Office 365 now come with a full 1TB of storage attached. That’s a lot of spreadsheets. Read more…
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OneDrive just more than doubled its free-storage offering, bringing it up to 15GB.
More than t wo years ago , Dolby trotted out Atmos, the most advanced surround sound system in history. It’s been used to bring explosions and battles to deafening life Gravity to The Hobbit, to create chilling, intense movie going experiences to hundreds of theaters. Now Dolby plans to bring Atmos to your house. Read more…
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Dolby’s Crazy Atmos Surround Sound Is Coming to Your Living Room