Free upgrades to Microsoft’s latest operating system are running out soon. On June 30th, one year after the release of Windows 10, anyone who hasn’t already upgraded will have to shell out $119 to move up to the latest and greatest. Read more…
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Windows 10 Upgrades Will Cost $120 Starting July 30th, So Go Do It Now
Some kids save up allowance money to buy a afford a new bike. Jani, a 10-year-old Finnish boy, decided to hack Instagram, and now he’s $10, 000 richer. Read more…
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A 10-Year-Old Hacked Instagram
Quaker Oats is being sued over the big “100% Natural” label on the front of its box. What else is in that big bucket o’ oats that makes the label a lie? Nothing, say the plantiffs—it is, indeed, just oats. Their complaint is that the oats were grown using pesticides. That, they claim, should be sufficient to keep the natural label off it. Read more…
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Quaker Oats Is Being Sued Because People Still Don’t Know What ‘Natural’ Means
Yesterday, Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright announced that he was the elusive creator of Bitcoin. His proclamation was immediately met with an avalanche of suspicion , with one prominent cryptography expert describing it as “flimflam and hokum.” Now, through a spokesman, Wright has promised that further proof for his claims is coming. Read more…
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Craig Wright Claims He Will Move Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin ‘In the Coming Days’
All I ever want in life is for an ATM to spit out an extra 20 dollar bill one time. This never happens! Vending machines have given me two bags of chips. I’ve gotten an extra chicken nugget here and there. Sometimes even the glorious onion ring in an order of fries. But the cash machine never messes up for me. Here’s how it manages to do that: with a series of rollers—some serrated, some smooth—that send the bill to a conveyor belt to get scanned with a sensor. Read more…
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How Do ATMs Always Give the Right Amount of Bills Each Time?
One of the really nice things about the newest builds of Raspbian is that it comes with just about all the software you need to get running. The downside of that is that all that software takes up a ton of space. RasPi.tv points out you can quickly snag about a 1GB back by deleting two apps: LibreOffice and Wolfram. Read more…
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Instantly Free Up Almost 1GB on Your Raspberry Pi By Ditching LibreOffice and Wolfram
The very name of the T6 ion thruster sounds like something from sci-fi. But it’s very real, and this little engine will be one of four that take the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo spacecraft to Mercury. Read more…
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This Futuristic Ion Thruster Will Take a Mission to Mercury
Researchers have developed a new image enhancement technique that allows them to boost the resolution of satellite images, revealing unprecedented levels of detail. Read more…
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New ‘Image Enhance’ Lets Satellites See 2-Inch Objects on Mars
It’s incredible that it escaped notice for so long, but scientists have just discovered a massive, 9, 500 square-kilometer reef system at the mouth of the Amazon river. And it’s home to some truly bizarre life forms. Read more…
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There’s a Gigantic Reef Surrounding the Amazon River and Nobody Noticed
Teamviewer’s Android Remote Contol app now lets you wake up a sleeping computer, an important feature for connecting to a remote PC. Read more…
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Teamviewer for Android Adds Wake-on-LAN, SD Card Support, and More