Well, here’s a cooooool finding. Take any piece of electronic equipment you can think of and its circuits are powered by, yes, electrons. But a new experiment takes us one step closer to “atomtronic circuits” made of supercold quantum matter that can be reconfigured on the fly. Read more…
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How Do We Make Transforming Quantum Circuits? Lasers and Ultracold Atoms
iOS 8.1.1 is here, and while it’s a pretty minor update, Apple says it should increase performance for the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S, two of the oldest devices that make the leap to iOS 8. Go grab it now, especially if you have some more elderly devices. Read more…
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We’ve been promising airless, puncture-proof tires for – bloody-ever by this point. But pump-haters, your time is arriving: starting next week, a factory in Piedmont, SC is going to start pumping them out. Read more…
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Michelin’s Airless Tire Might Actually Start Existing
We’ve all received that email at least once before. A kind prince/princess/spambot in Nigeria has millions of dollars, and better yet, they want to split it with you . Just hand over your social security code and wait for them to arrive on American soil. As the above newspaper clipping shows, these types of scams were going on even before email came around—in this case, as early as 1876. Read more…
In-flight WiFi is great (because Snapchat on planes!) but also terrible (because paying $12 for two hours of dial-up era internet), something that AT&T was planning to change by offering its own in-flight WiFi. Sadly, AT&T just announced that it’s nuking that idea. Read more…
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AT&T’s Killing Its In-Flight WiFi Plans
Live in a Microsoft bubble? Then you might be able to make good use of its new Work & Play Bundle, which wraps up all its subscription services in one place for $200 a year. Read more…
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All of Microsoft’s Best Subscription Services Are Now in a $200 Bundle
Here’s a fun but depressing Saturday afternoon fact: taking and sharing photos of the Eiffel tower at night is a copyright violation that could land you with a hefty fine (not that it’s stopped the selfie-snapping masses, of course). Read more…
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Sharing Night-Time Photos Of The Eiffel Tower Is Illegal
Even the latest generation of nuclear power reactors can only harvest about five percent of the energy stored in their radioactive fuel supplies, and the toxic leftovers must then be buried deep underground to slowly decay over hundreds of thousands of years. But thanks to a new breed of sodium-cooled pool reactor, we may soon be able to draw nearly 100 times more energy from nuclear fuels, while slashing their half-lives by two orders of magnitude. Read more…
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Fast-Acting Nuclear Reactor Will Power Through Piles of Plutonium
Ebook subscription service Scribd updated today to now offer over 30, 000 audiobooks along with their collection of standard ebooks as part of their current $8.99 per month plan. Read more…
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Scribd Adds More Than 30,000 Audiobooks to Its Subscription Service
Silk Road 2.o, the illegal drug marketplace that cropped up to replace the original has been shutdown by the FBI and its alleged operator has been charged in Manhattan Federal Court. Read more…
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Silk Road 2.0 Shut Down By the FBI, Operator Charged In Federal Court