Electric-only cars might be envogue right now, but Toyota is pursuing another eco-friendly alternative to gasoline engines with its FCV concept . The company is now claiming the vehicle will be available sometime in 2015—at least if you live in California where (hopefully) hydrogen refill stations will be plentiful by then. Read more…
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Water Vapor Will Be the Only Emission From Toyota’s New Fuel Cell Car
Kindle for iOS has been updated with a slew of new features, including flashcards, improved in-book search, a redesigned dictionary, filters for bookmarks and highlights, and more. Read more about the update here . Read more…
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Kindle for iOS has been updated with a slew of new features, including flashcards, improved in-book
Security researchers at Fox IT say they’ve detected a malicious exploit kit among Yahoo’s ad network active since December 30th. The malware seems to have hit Romania, Great Britain, and France the hardest, but wherever you are, if you’ve browsed a Yahoo site this week, you may want to run a scan or two. Read more…
Watching 4K video is wonderful and all, but with streaming increasingly popular and data caps largely still in place, it also still seems impractical. Not for long, though, if rumors of YouTube’s latest schemes are to be believed. Read more…
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Rumor: YouTube Will Debut Low-Bandwidth 4K Streaming Next Week
As Mexico City archaeologists sort through the surreal array of Aztec sacrificial skulls recently uncovered while excavating their city’s subway system , it’s worth remembering that parts of the London Underground were also tunneled, blasted, picked, and drilled through a labyrinth of plague pits and cemeteries. Read more…
Born around 276 B.C. in Cyrene, Libya, Eratosthenes soon became one of the most famous mathematicians of his time. He is best known for making the first recorded measurement of the Earth’s circumference, which was also remarkably accurate. (And, yes, people at that point had known for some time that the world wasn’t flat, contrary to popular belief .) Read more…
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How the Circumference of Earth Was Accurately Estimated 2000 Years Ago
Oh dear. In an inauspicious start to 2014 for both Snapchat and its users, a website appears to have published user name and phone number information for 4.6 million accounts. Read more…
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4.6 Million Snapchat User Names and Phone Numbers Leaked (Check Yours)
X-rays and advanced photography have uncovered the true complexity of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, a device so astonishing that its discovery is like finding a functional Buick in medieval Europe. Read more…
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Advanced Imaging Reveals a Computer 1,500 Years Ahead of Its Time
The bright ball that hovers over Times Square on New Year’s Eve is special this year. Sure, it’s iconic and colorful and mesmerizing as it always is. This year, however, the ball will captivate us all with a brand new crystal coating. And, boy, is it pretty. Read more…
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Inside the Design of the New Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball
We already knew that the NSA had developed a taste for intercepting packages to put backdoors in electronics . Now, it turns out that those hacks provide it with almost complete access to the iPhone , too. Read more…
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The NSA Has Crazy Good Backdoor Access to iPhones