This is what a Virgin Galactic supersonic flight with the SpaceShipTwo looks like, up close and personal. It’s not quite space, but it’s still damn gorgeous to watch. Read more…
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You know how papers can mysteriously go missing amongst the sea of documents strewn about your desk? The same thing could soon happen to your keyboard, thanks to the work of England-based research firm CSR. It’s developed a touch keyboard that measures less than half a millimeter thick, making it the perfect accessory for a similarly thin tablet—if you can find it. Read more…
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The World’s Thinnest Keyboard Is Just Half a Millimeter Thick
This image shows a great white expanse on the surface of Earth, but it’s not snow or super-fine sand: in fact, it’s a dried up salt lake in Turkey called Lake Tersakan—and satellites even use it as a calibration tool. Read more…
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This Dried-Up Salt Lake Lets Satellites Set Their White Balance
You can now post GIFs on Facebook thanks to a workaround from Giphy. Read more…
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You Can Finally Put GIFs on Facebook, Here’s How
These coy hippos come from a 19th century illustration in The Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. They’re now part of a new book, published by New York’s American Museum of Natural History, that combines some of the best illustrations and artworks from the museum’s rare book collection .
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The best of the American Museum of Natural History’s rare book collection
Trent Reznor has a treat for audio nerds. When Nine Inch Nails’ new record Hesitation Marks drops next week, it’ll be available in regular and audiophile versions. The two sonic flavors will be mixed differently—One mix for the headphone clutching masses who demand “loundness, ” and one mix for the nerds who want to hear every frequency the way it sounded in the studio. Read more…
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rjmarvin writes “Two developers were able to successfully reverse-engineer Dropbox to intercept SSL traffic, bypass two-factor authentication and create open-source clients. They presented their paper, ‘Looking inside the (Drop) box’ (PDF) at USENIX 2013, explaining step-by-step how they were able to succeed where others failed in reverse-engineering a heavily obfuscated application written in Python. They also claimed the generic techniques they used could be applied to reverse-engineer other Frozen python applications: OpenStack, NASA, and a host of Google apps, just to name a few…” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Researchers Reverse-Engineer Dropbox, Cracking Heavily Obfuscated Python App
Nissan got bold on Tuesday afternoon by announcing plans to build and, more notably, sell an affordable self-driving car by 2020. And when Nissan say affordable, it means it. The company estimates the cost of upgrading a luxury sedan to a luxury autonomous sedan will be just $1, 000. Read more…
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Nissan Wants Self-Driving to Be a $1000 Car Upgrade by 2020
Facebook has just unveiled a new feature that allows multiple users to share one photo album. Now, up to 50 different “contributors” can each upload up to 200 photos into one, collaborative album—contributors can only edit their own photos while moderators get absolute power. In other words, let the public shaming commence. Read more…
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Facebook has just unveiled a new feature that allows multiple users to share one photo album.
Fossils are three-dimensional objects, but you aren’t really supposed to touch them, and you can’t see their depth and detail very easily over the internet. But a new database of fossils from the British Geological Survey actually has the necessary files for you to 3D print fossils yourself. Read more…
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This Database Lets You 3D Print and Explore Thousands of Fossils