Starting today, all of Apple’s retail stores will accept any of the company’s ageing products for recycling —and, if it looks resaleable, you might even get some store credit, too. Read more…
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Apple Now Recycles Any Product You Give Back (and Gives You Credit)
This is no 20 GB video file, painstakingly pulled from a render farm. All of it was generated in real time by one tiny algorithm. And it’s amazing. Read more…
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This Incredible Animation Was Made By Code That Could Fit on a Floppy
If you’re lucky enough to have a retractable sprayer attached to your kitchen faucet, you’ve probably noticed that its circular blast often isn’t powerful enough to really scrape dishes clean. To fix that, Kohler is introducing what it calls Sweep spray technology that blasts stuck-on food with a wide blade of water that works like a liquid scraper. Read more…
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This Faucet Sprayer’s Flat Blade of Water Scrapes Dishes Clean
A new water-repellant concrete impregnated with tiny superstrong fibers promises to leave roads and bridges free of major cracks for up to 120 years. Read more…
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Advanced Concrete Could Last More Than A Century Without Maintenance
It’s no surprise that the diamond industry is willing to spend whatever it takes to make the process of mining precious gems even more profitable. And while it already relies on X-ray technology for spotting diamonds on the surface of mined ore, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute’s Development Center for X-ray Technology EZRT have developed a way to now spot them buried inside rocks. Read more…
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Researchers Develop a Way to X-Ray Rocks To Find Hidden Diamonds
When it’s time to put away the electric blanket for the season (or starts to smell funky), it’s time to clean it. Clean an electric blanket using a washing machine and a few simple steps. Read more…
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The Proper Way to Wash an Electric Blanket
You wouldn’t think that a four-wheeled car would go faster if one of its wheels didn’t touch the ground. Or if its axles were bent. Or if it was designed to grind against a wall. But you’d be wrong, and here’s the science to prove it. Read more…
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The Science Behind Making the Fastest Possible Pinewood Derby Car
Windows Phone 8.1 is here , and with it comes not only with a notification center(!) but a brand new Halo-flavored voice assistant. But how does Cortana shape up against her competitors, who have a year or two of experience on her? Surprisingly well. Read more…
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Cortana vs. Siri vs. Google Now: The Ultimate Voice Control Showdown
After decades of work, a team of doctors say they’ve successfully engineered vaginas that have been implanted and grown in women. The vaginas were grown in a lab from the female patients’ own cells and later transferred to their bodies, where they formed into normal vaginas. The breakthrough bears some huge implications, too. Read more…
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Doctors Can Now Grow Engineered Vaginas in Women
Today, Dropbox announced that it will allow for collaborative editing in Microsoft Office. While not as seamless as editing a Google doc, it will help users avoid overwriting each others changes and sync those changes more quickly. Read more…
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Dropbox Adds Collaborative Editing for Microsoft Office