The brains that will power your next laptop are here. Intel’s just taken the covers off the high-powered versions of its new Broadwell architecture. That is to say, the 5th generation Intel Core i3-i7 chips that will make your next laptop better than ever. Read more…
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Intel Broadwell: The Badass Brains That Will Power Your Next PC
Copyright holders were not shy about asking Google to remove pirated content in 2014. Last year, there were over 345 million requests to take down infringing content, according to a Torrent Freak summary of Google’s weekly transparency reports . That’s a 75 percent increase from 2013. Google honored most of the requests. Read more…
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Copyright Holders Asked Google to Remove 345 Million Links Last Year
Just a few days after reports emerged that the infamous Mt. Gox meltdown was an inside job , one of the biggest , oldest, and most trusted bitcoin exchanges—Bitstamp—just went offline after a security breach. Bitcoin exchanges come and go all the time , but this is different. Bitstamp is supposed to be the reliable one . Read more…
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One of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchanges Just Went Dark After Getting Hacked
Archeologists have discovered an ancient tomb modeled after the mythical Tomb of Osiris as described by Egyptian lore in the necropolis of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, on the West Bank at Thebes. The complex includes a shaft that connects to multiple chambers, including one with demons holding knives. Read more…
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Archeologists discover mythical Tomb of Osiris in Egypt
When it finally rolls out of the garage, Bloodhound SSC will hit a dizzying 1, 000mph . But before it can do that, the team behind the vehicle needs to put it all together. Read more…
Audiophiles have a laundry list of reasons why you should be buying your music on vinyl, but with DJ Qbert’s new album Extraterrestria, aspiring turntablists now have a reason to skip the MP3s too. Using printed MIDI technology from a company called Novalia, the artwork in the vinyl’s sleeve doubles as a DJ controller for Algoriddim’s djay iOS app. Read more…
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The Vinyl Artwork on Qbert’s New Album Doubles As a MIDI DJ Controller
If Times Square is too gaudy, crowded, and frankly insane for you, then there is another New York tradition worth your New Year’s Eve—one that is, in fact, ending tonight. For the past fifty years, the Pratt Institute has set out its amazing collection of big old steam whistles out on the lawn of its Brooklyn campus . Tonight’s your last chance to steam blast your way into the new year. Read more…
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Brooklyn’s Best NYE Tradition Ends Tonight
Every decade produces iconic pieces of futurism that help to define a generation. For the 1960s it was The Jetsons and Star Trek . For the 1970s it was Future Shock and Soylent Green . What about the 1980s? It was almost certainly Back to the Future Part II . Read more…
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Back to the Future II Takes Place This Year. How Close Did We Get?
When I saw Return of the Jedi in the movie theater back in 1983 I and everyone else thought this matte painting of a Rebel hangar was a real thing—that, somehow, they managed to build a full size set with giant models. It was all a magic trick that used distraction to fool your brain. This BBC documentary explains how. Read more…
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How ILM made you believe this painting was a real hangar in Star Wars
Forget gaming PCs. Forget Doom on an ATM . Forget Super Smash Bros. on a graphing calculator . The only game worth playing is Quake on an oscillascope. I mean, holy crap would you look at this thing? It’s as nerdy as it is awesome. Read more…
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The Nerdiest Way to Play Quake Is Also the Coolest