Electricity bill got you down? Blame your cable box or PlayStation or printer or refrigerator or any of your smart, networked devices that have a gentle-sounding but energy-sucking “standby mode.” A new report from the International Energy Agency puts the energy from networked devices worldwide at 616 terawatt-hours. That’s more than the entire energy consumption of the United Kingdom. Read more…
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Your Cable Box Is Wasting Absurd Amounts of Energy and Money
It looks like something out of a movie, but is very much real life: you’re looking at the Aurora Borealis as they illuminate a huge cave in Iceland. It’s pretty humbling. Read more…
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Look at the Aurora Borealis Lighting Up a Frozen Icelandic Cave
The footprint of Manhattan’s been expanding since the 17th century, when early New Yorkers began their first project to infill its shoreline. A huge part of the island we know today is built on artificial pilings. Now, it might get its biggest expansion in years. Read more…
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A Massive New Levee Could Add Two New City Blocks To Manhattan
The Federal Trade Commission has accused T-Mobile of placing hundreds of millions of dollars of bogus charges onto its customers’ phone bills. Read more…
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FTC: T-Mobile Took Hundreds of Millions of Bogus Charges on Phone Bills
The nearest Earth-like planet is only 16 light-years away from us. It has a mass that is more than five times the mass of the Earth and it orbits a red dwarf star that has half the mass and radius of our sun. Read more…
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This Is The Most Earth-Like Planet Discovered Yet
An old MUNI bus in San Francisco is getting a second life with a noble cause. Outfitted with toilets and showers, Lava Mae ‘s refurbished bus will bring mobile bathrooms to homeless people around the city. The long-awaited bus will make its first rounds this weekend . Read more…
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A Refurbished Bus Will Bring Showers to the Homeless in San Francisco
The late 1990s were a fascinating period in the evolution of cinema technology. Film, the only physical medium cinema had ever known, was slowly being replaced by newfangled digital technology. And it was in 2000 that the Academy Award winning film O Brother, Where Art Thou gorgeously illustrated the potential of digital filmmaking. Read more…
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O Brother, This Was the First Movie to Use All-Digital Color Grading
iOS 8 is just around the corner (and potentially unjailbreakable), but for folks who have found themselves stuck on the more recent 7.1.1 update and unable to jailbreak, there’s finally an option . Thrown together by as-yet untested Chinese developers Pangu, the untethered jailbreak is windows only, but works for all devices that can run 7.1.1. Read more…
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There’s Finally a Jailbreak for iOS 7.1.1
If you ever want to change the style of all the headings or captions in a document, bold all the italicized text, or otherwise fine-tune the formatting of your document in one swoop, Microsoft Word has a setting for that. Read more…
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Select All Text with the Same Formatting in Word (and Other Word Tips)
A US Court, at the behest of movie studios, has ordered the shutdown of domains related to DVDFab, one of our favorite DVD and Blu-ray ripping tools . For the time being, DVDFab reps say you can get around it by going to the company’s Japanese website . Read more and see the full injunction over at TorrentFreak . Read more…
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A US Court, at the behest of movie studios, has ordered the shutdown of domains related to DVDFab, o