This recently published photo of an F-35B going supersonic during twilight testing is stunning. The blue-hour moment, the burning colors of the setting sun, the ragged high altitude clouds—and the afterburner, with about ten shock diamonds . Magical. [ Lockheed Martin ] Read more…
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Shock Diamonds Are a Pilot’s Best Friend
This looks like a fairly normal piece of stainless steel mesh—but it’s coated with a special substance which allows it to block oil while allowing water through. Read more…
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This Mesh Stops Oil But Lets Water Right Through
There’s just nothing quite like the sound and feel of typing away on a keyboard with genuine mechanical switches under each key. But while most mechanical keyboards are giant and designed to permanently live on your desk, the TEX Yoda has a much smaller form factor and footprint making it easier to travel with so you’ll never have to settle for typing on a portable keyboard’s Chiclet keys ever again. Read more…
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A Compact Semi-Portable Keyboard With Genuine Mechanical Keys
Being able to carbonate water in your own home is awesome. Not being able to inject the same magic bubbles into every other liquid you can get your hands on? That’s a drag. But no longer! The SodaStream Mix is a new machine that can bubblify anything . Are you quaking with glee yet? I know I am. Read more…
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19 Things I’m Dying to Carbonate With SodaStream’s Magical New Machine
If you use uTorrent for your torrenting needs, there’s a good chance your client is also mining Bitcoin without you even realizing it, and gobbling up your computer’s processing power. Read more…
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How to Make Sure Your Torrent Client Isn’t Secretly Mining Bitcoin
If you’ve got an iOS device somewhere on your person then you’ve probably noticed the latest software update is available. Beyond the usual selection of bug fixes and patches (of which there are more than usual), there are a number of small but handy improvements for your iPhone and iPad to take advantage of—here’s how to use them. Read more…
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7 Things You Can Do in iOS 8.3 That You Couldn’t Before
Measuring magnetic fields with accuracy is important, whether it’s for geological exploration or medical imaging. Now, a team from MIT has developed a new laser-based magnetic field detector that’s 1, 000 times more efficient than previous examples. Read more…
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A Magnetic Field Detector 1,000 Times More Efficient Than Those Before It
Beneath the streets of London, an underground rail network once existed to shuttle mail around the city. Decommissioned in 2003, this 3D laser scan serves to save its existence for posterity. Read more…
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3D Laser Scan Shows London’s Abandoned Underground Mail Rail Network
As the ongoing Meerkatification of humanity proves, the internet (in one form or another) is becoming more and more about video. At peak times, Netflix and YouTube alone account for half of all web traffic. That’s an understandably huge burden for ISPs to carry. But as well as making the pipes bigger, we can also shrink down what goes through them. Read more…
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Why You Should Care About VP9, Google’s Clever Video Codec
Staph infections are one of the most pervasive and annoying bacterial infections faced by hospitals every year. It infects half a million people in the US every year, with symptoms ranging from skin infections to heart problems — and worse, some strains (commonly known as MRSA) have evolved to resist common antibiotics. Read more…
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A Medieval Recipe Could Kill Hospital Superbugs. No, Really.