The dirty little not-so-secret of smartphones is that you’ll never get the full amount of memory marked on the case. Operating systems take up space! But different phones leave you with different amounts of storage. Here, from W hich? , are the most and least generous. Read more…
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How Much Storage Does Your Smartphone Actually Give You?
After the bevy of problems Healthcare.gov encountered in its first few months of life, dumping one more onto the pile shouldn’t phase you all that much, right? Well, not if that hiccup is actually a gaping vulnerability—and one that can grant hackers access to over 70, 0000 private records in just four minutes, at that. Read more…
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Hackers Swiped 70,000 Records from Healthcare.gov in Four Minutes
It’s usually over in an instant, but when you capture macro footage of a match head igniting at 4, 000 frames per second, suddenly that almost instantaneous event becomes a fascinating look into the science of fire and ignition. And believe it or not, YouTuber UltraSlo had to throw an additional 2, 000 watts of light on this match head to capture this mesmerizing footage—that’s a lot of birthday candles. Read more…
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Match Heads Igniting at 4,000 FPS Look Like Dying Alien Worlds
The USNS Fall River , the fourth vessel in the US Navy’s new Spearhead -class of high-speed, shallow-draft transport catamarans launched for the first time over the weekend. This multi-function catamaran will transport up cargo and up to a battalion of troops between ports. Read more…
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The Navy’s Newest "Pickup Truck of the Sea" Just Launched
The Los Angeles Times reports that Paramount Pictures is the first major Hollywood studio to ditch 35mm film and go all-digital for United States theater releases, with The Wolf of Wall Street being shipped to theaters in digital format only. Sorry film fans, it sounds like that’s a wrap. Read more…
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Report: Paramount Pictures Cuts Film, Goes All-Digital in U.S.
Scientists have long been toiling to create artificial life, managing to produce man-made cell walls and even synthetic DNA. But now, a team of chemists has produced a functioning cell made from polymers . Read more…
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This Is the World’s First Working Cell Made From Plastic
Until now, Spotify’s free accounts provided unlimited as-supported streaming via its desktop client for six months, until it then imposed a cap on your streaming. Now, though, that cap is being scrapped. Read more…
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Spotify Now Provides Unlimited Free Music on its Desktop App
We’re smack-dab in the middle of winter and baby, it’s cold outside (or so I’ve heard; I live over in LOL ). I imagine that it might be tough to find the beauty in yet another day of sub-zero temperatures, but for some enterprising creative types, bone-chilling frost is more than a major nuisance—it’s the stuff that musical dreams are made of. Read more…
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8 Otherworldly Songs Performed On Instruments Made Of Ice
Even with perfect typography, a stunning design, or a novel shape, a business card is still an antiquated way to share your contact details. So the folks over at TechKeys—makers of custom keyboards—wanted to design a card that reflected their work and left a lasting impression—and what better way to do that than with a business card that doubles as a working keyboard . Read more…
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You Won’t Mind Pocketing a Business Card That’s a Working Keyboard
The Universe is so big that it can be difficult to accurately measure the huge distances between things in it. But no longer, because now a team of researchers working on the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey can measure distances between galaxies with 1 percent accuracy . Read more…
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The Universe Can Now Be Measured to 1% Accuracy