The lure of quantum entangled computing is strong, as it can provide a means of impenetrable encryption —but the hardware has always been too bulky to make it practical. Now, though, researchers have shrunk the technology down to less than the width of a human hair, small enough to squeeze onto a chip. Read more…
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Quantum Entanglement Can Now Be Performed on a Chip
Google Earth Pro , the premium version of Google’s popular Google Earth service, is now free. Google sliced the price from $400 a year, so this is a pretty solid deal. If you like to make 3D measurements or create HD videos of virtual trips around the world, I’d jump on this. You can download the software key directly from Google and start an online global journey. Read more…
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Google Earth Pro Is Now Available for Free
If you ever thought writing your own choose your own adventure or text-based game would be too difficult, the free storytelling tool, Twine, makes it a piece of cake. Read more…
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Twine Lets You Create "Choose Your Own Adventure" Stories with Ease
Because Middle-Earth can be a confusing, perilous place, Reddit user mbingcrosby created this Google Maps-style guide to the journey from Hobbiton to Mordor. As you can see, it’s expected to take six months (“four months without Orcs”), and be ready, because “this route has trolls.” Read more…
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Plan Your Next Trip To Mordor With This Google Map Of Middle-Earth
Jay-Z is buying the Scandinavian music streaming company Aspiro—which currently runs to music services—for $56 million, in a bid to take on Spotify. Read more…
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Jay-Z Is Taking on Spotify By Buying Aspiro For $56m
According to a story from the UK edition of Vice (a story which, I hasten to add, relies on a source named ‘K2’ and should therefore be taken with the requisite gallon of salt), drug dealers in the fair city of Birmingham have turned to dumphones in an attempt to evade the police. Read more…
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Drug Dealers Are Using Nokia Dumbphones To Stay Ahead Of "The Feds"
It might seem like LED bulbs are only for early-adopters hoping to cut down their monthly Con Ed power bill, but come Sunday, the energy-efficient lighting alternative will take center stage at one of the greatest spectacles on Earth. This will actually be the first Super Bowl to be entirely lit by LED bulbs . Read more…
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The First Super Bowl Played Under LEDs Will Use 75 Percent Less Power
Producing quality 360-degree video for Oculus Rift-like headsets is still really difficult to do, which is why high-tech porn company Huccio had the $250, 000, seven camera rig above custom-designed for its venture into the world of immersive video. Read more…
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The Insane Camera Rig Being Used to Shoot 360-Degree Oculus Porn
Not all spider silk is created equal. Some spiders spin webs of wet, sticky silk. Others like the Uloborus spider have fluffy webs made of nanoscale filaments. But those fluffy webs are just as good at catching prey, likely thanks to their electrostatic charge. Read more…
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This Spider Catches Prey With a Web of Electrically Charged Silk
Michelin and Bridgestone have been racing to take the air out of everyone’s tires—but in a good way. Both companies have been developing open-air wheels that will never puncture or deflate, and while they’ve mostly seen use in research and military vehicles to date, John Deere will finally offer a ride-on mower that uses Michelin’s see-through Tweels . Read more…
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John Deere’s New Ride-On Mower Is One of the First To Have Airless Tires