This is a game changer, folks. Whereas mining stem cells has been either an ethical quandary or a months-long affair, scientist can now turn any old blood cells into stem cells in just 30 seconds— by dipping them in acid . Read more…
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Scientists Use Acid to Turn Blood Cells into Stem Cells in 30 Seconds
The numbers may be shrinking a bit in recent years but, when you look at it, the sheer aggregate of people who’ve made a toon, joined a raid or bought a pet in World of Warcraft is still mind-boggling. Read more…
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World of Warcraft’s Impressive First Decade, By the Numbers
The rumors are true: Google’s bringing Chrome apps to iOS and Android. Well, it’s providing the tools developers need in order to do so . The toolkit is only in a beta form at the moment, but it holds the promise turning Chrome apps into cross-platform suckers for your phone. If it turns out to be as easy at it sounds, Chrome apps just got a lot more interesting. [ Chomium Blog ] Read more…
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The rumors are true: Google’s bringing Chrome apps to iOS and Android.
Getting a little bored of your usual workout routine? Here are nearly 100 workout posters that will motivate you to train like Rocky, workout with the strength of Thor, or simply switch up your exercises. Read more…
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Exercise Like a Jedi, Superhero, or Warrior with Free Workout Posters
An astronomer from West Virginia University has discovered a never-before-seen river of hydrogen flowing through space —and it could explain why spiral galaxies keep up their pace of star formation. Read more…
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There’s a Massive River of Hydrogen Running Through Space
The Justice Department has formally charged the CEO of Bitcoin exchange Bitinstant.com with running an illegal wire service , and according to reports by the New York Post’s Kaja Whitehouse , he’s just been arrested at JFK. Uh oh. Read more…
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Bitcoin Exchange CEO Arrested for Money Laundering
Microsoft’s SkyDrive is a terrific little cloud service that doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves. Unless, of course, it’s being sued by British Sky Broadcasting Group over its name. But now SkyDrive will be called OneDrive, for just as long as is legally allowable. Read more…
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SkyDrive Is Now OneDrive, Until Microsoft Gets Sued Again
Clearly not content with buying a terrifying robot army , Google is now purchasing a London-based artificial intelligence company to go with it—for a cool $500 million. Read more…
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Google’s Buying an AI Startup Called DeepMind for $500M
With a literacy rate hovering around an estimated 5 to 10 percent of the population during the Middle Ages, only a select few of society’s upper echelons and religious castes had use for books. So who would have use for a sextuplet of stories bound by a single, multi-hinged cover like this? Some seriously busy scholar. Read more…
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This Transforming Medieval Text Is Actually Six Books in One
Rumors of larger iPhones that take a page from the Android phablet handbook have been swirling around for a while now , and the WSJ is now chiming in with reports that two are coming this year. One with a screen bigger than 4.5 inches, the other with a screen bigger than 5 inches. Read more…
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WSJ: Two Different Big-Screen iPhones Are Coming This Year