Using sound to hunt for food is a pretty ingenious adaptation for bats flying at night. But it doesn’t work if another bat is messing with you. Scientists have discovered that a species of bats can purposely jam the sonars of others to keep rivals away from their insect prey. Read more…
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Bats Can Use Sonar Jamming to Steal Food From Each Other
For its next stab at original programming, Netflix is venturing into kid-land with a series based on Daniel Handler’s Lemony Snicket books . The series is a partnership with Paramount, which produced the 2004 Jim Carrey film. How great would it be if Carrey starred in the series, too? [ Variety ] Read more…
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For its next stab at original programming, Netflix is venturing into kid-land with a series based on
The IRS doesn’t often raise the amount that you can contribute to your 401(k), so when they do, we tend to take notice. As of 2015, you’ll be able to contribute an additional $500 to both your regular 401(k) as well as another $500 to catch-up contributions if you’re over 50. Read more…
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You Can Increase Your 401(k) Contribution by $500 Next Year
It’s been a while since we heard anything new about Nest’s flagship product, the quiet elder brother to the attention-hogging Protect . But today the company is pushing a new software update to all existing devices this week, and it’s using a clever new bit of software to make them far more efficient. Read more…
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Nest Just Made Your Thermostat Smarter With a New Algorithm
With thousands of TV shows and movies available to stream at home, it takes more than just celebrities in a film to get people into theaters. You need to show them something spectacular, and for Christopher Nolan’s latest film, Interstellar , that meant shooting almost an hour of the movie with a 70mm IMAX camera. Read more…
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Why Seeing Interstellar in 70mm Might Just Be Worth the Effort
Here’s an action scene from a movie called Hardcore that’s filmed completely from one character’s point of view so it looks exactly like a first person shooter video game. In fact, it’s so good, it’s as if those FPS video games like Call of Duty all of a sudden came to life. Watch it. Read more…
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Movie filmed to look like a first person shooter game looks incredible
Following the tragic accident on Friday which saw Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo fail catastrophically, engineers are now scrabbling to understand the cause. In a new briefing , the National Transportation Safety Board has explained that the craft d eployed its braking system prematurely. Read more…
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Deployed Its Braking System Prematurely
This report on a 4-acre spider web covering a building has made shiver and curl in disgust. You are looking at the Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Plant, where 4 acres of their facility were covered by a spider web made by an estimated 107 million spiders. That’s 35, 176 spiders per cubic meter! Read more…
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4-acre spider web may be the grossest thing you will see this Halloween*
Microsoft has released a new version of Outlook for Mac, available to Office 365 subscribers, with a refined interface and better push email support. Read more on the Office blog . Read more…
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Microsoft has released a new version of Outlook for Mac, available to Office 365 subscribers, with a
The best way to maximize the screen real estate on a smartphone without turning it into a massive phablet is to whittle away as much of the wasted space around the display as possible. And with its new 5.3-inch full HD LCD panel, LG has managed to reduce the size of the display’s bezel to just 0.7mm—which is thinner than a credit card. Read more…
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LG’s New Smartphone Display Has the World’s Thinnest 0.7mm Bezel