I have always wondered about two things since I was a kid and saw James Bond screwing a silencer into his gun: How the hell does a silencer look inside and how does it work? The picture above answers the first question and t his animated infographic by SilencerCo , the second : Read more…
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A gun silencer cut in half looks really weird inside
August, 13, 1944. The British 8th Army occupies Florence. The Allies finally break out of Normandy. Meanwhile, somewhere in the south of Tuscany, a soldier writes this encrypted message and hides it inside a bullet. In 2015, someone found it and deciphered it. It was the end of a hilariously absurd story. Read more…
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Secret message found inside WW2 bullet is the end to a very funny story
Molly McHugh writes: What better way to sell telepresence technologies than having the store employees themselves appear via robot? At the Beam store in Palo Alto, Calif., no human salespeople physically appear, only robots. Users appear on the 17-inch display and control the robot via keyboard, mouse, or Xbox controller. Beam can roll as fast as two miles per hour. People behind the screen control the Beam through their computers, and two wide-angle cameras attached to the top of the bot lets them see everything happening around the store. It’s a bit eerie, watching floating heads tool around and talk to people in this video, and the customers’ react to the Beam with confusion and wonder. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Chris New took these fascinating loops at GE Global Research lab. Above: ” A tube of almost pure quartz heated to temperatures of around 1, 700 Celsius to create custom laboratory glassware.” Read more…
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Quartz heated at 1,700C looks like something out of Tony Stark’s lab
rossgneumann writes If everyone always wants to look different than everybody else, everybody starts looking the same. At least, if you use a recently published mathematical model describing the phenomenon. “The hipster effect is this non-concerted emergent collective phenomenon of looking alike trying to look different, ” in the words of Jonathan Touboul, mathematical neuroscientist at the College de France in Paris. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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The Math Behind the Hipster Effect
I never thought of this, but you can fit all the planets in the Solar System back to back into the distance from the Earth to the Moon—about 238, 900 miles (384, 400 kilometers)—with room to spare: 4, 990 miles (8, 030 kilometers.) Seeing it visualized really give you a good idea of how much empty space is out there. Read more…
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All the planets in the Solar System fit between the Earth and the Moon
With another sweltering summer over you might have already forgotten the glory of your AC unit, the 100-year-old modern convenience which truly changed the way we live. But the U.S. might have felt the cool breeze of relief a half-century sooner, if an entire industry built on keeping things frozen hadn’t stopped the first air conditioner from being made. Read more…
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We could have had AC 50 years earlier but the ice lobby killed it
At last, it’s done. The biggest spaceship size chart ever created is now complete and fully operational. 4, 268 x 5, 690 pixels of technological terror that includes everything from the smaller Star War ships to EVE. According to its author, Dirk Loechel, this is the last update. It’s epic. Read more…
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The biggest comparison of sci-fi spaceships ever is complete at last
An anonymous reader writes If you use Twitch don’t click on any suspicious links in the video streaming platform’s chat feature. Twitch Support’s official Twitter account issued a security warning telling users not to click the “csgoprize” link in chat. According to f-secure, the link leads to a Java program that asks for your name and email. If you provide the info it will install a file on your computer that’s able to take out any money you have in your Steam wallet, as well as sell or trade items in your inventory. “This malware, which we call Eskimo, is able to wipe your Steam wallet, armory, and inventory dry, ” says F-Secure. “It even dumps your items for a discount in the Steam Community Market. Previous variants were selling items with a 12 percent discount, but a recent sample showed that they changed it to 35 percent discount. Perhaps to be able to sell the items faster.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Malware Distributed Through Twitch Chat Is Hijacking Steam Accounts
Kotaku’s Brian Ashcraft reports on the new all black burger at Burger King Japan, a sandwich with black buns, black sauce, and black cheese darker than a black hole (seriously, the cheese is extremely black.) It looks kind of gross—but I really want to try it. How is this black cheese so dark, you ask? Read more…
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Burger King’s new all-black burger has black buns, cheese, and sauce