Last year, Verizon bought $3.6 billion worth of spectrum, and now it’s finally making use of it: its LTE coverage just got three times faster in some big cities . Read more…
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Verizon’s LTE Just Got Three Times Faster in a Bunch of Big Cities
Back in May, our friend and ex-NASA JPL engineer Mark Rober , figured out a way to shoot “bullet time” videos on the cheap , with a ceiling fan, a pair of flashlights, and a GoPro. Pretty damn creative, but the rig had its limitations. So Mark set out to find a way to create a similar set-up, this time using a high-end Phantom camera. Thank goodness. Read more…
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NASA Engineers Built an Insanely Complex Bullet-Time Rig For Fun
Those Mexican thieves that stole a truckload of coblat-60 ? They’re virtually sure to die, according to experts. Read more…
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Those Mexican Cobalt-60 Thieves Will Die of Radiation Exposure
Hanjie Wanda Square, a high-end mall designed by Dutch architects UNStudio, opened in the Chinese city of Wuhan this week. There are 42, 300 stainless steel orbs strung along the facade, each embedded with an LED that, together, turn the building’s skin into a multi-colored screen at night. [ Domus ; image by Edmon Leong ] Read more…
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Hanjie Wanda Square, a high-end mall designed by Dutch architects UNStudio, opened in the Chinese ci
Card skimmers are getting way more common , to the point that they’ve even started appearing on point-of-sale card machines . And, boy, if this thing is anything to go by, they’re getting better and better. Read more…
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Beware This Simple But Incredibly Effective Point-of-Sale Skimmer
Time Warner is now offering a new, affordable plan that lets you get HBO and about 20 channels for just $30/month for the first year. Great news for anyone who doesn’t want to be saddled with 70 channels they’re never watching. Read more…
The most thrilling [marketing] advancement in recent years was unveiled last night on 60 Minutes . If you missed it— how could you have missed it? —Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos detailed the [marketing] future of his company for millions [of potential customers]: Amazon PrimeAir . The [marketing] future is here, and it is [vague promises of] 30-minute delivery by drones. Read more…
Everything from photography, to television, to printers made the eventual evolution from black and white to full color. And following in those technological footsteps is the 3D printer, with 3D Systems recently announcing what it’s claiming is the world’s first continuous-tone full color plastic printer called the ProJet 4500 . Read more…
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Full-Color 3D Printing Is Here, and It’s Marvelous
There may well be more than 60 billion habitable planets littering the Milky Way, but it’s virtually impossible to make use of that figure. Instead, how about this picture , which shows you how many planets are within 60 light-years of Earth. Read more…
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All the Habitable Planets Within 60 Light-Years of Earth, Visualized
Items directly related to life and death should not go on sale. Sure, the price of any product can be affected by market conditions, but you just don’t want to be buying bungee jumping cords half off. You just don’t. Read more…
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Don’t Buy Knockoff Prescription Drugs on Cyber Monday