If you’re a science hobbyist you probably don’t have access to actual liquid nitrogen (-320 degrees Fahrenheit) but you can make your own cryo-fluid from dry ice and rubbing alcohol that goes down to -110 degrees Fahrenheit, enough to instantly freeze flowers, cherries, and other popular liquid nitrogen demonstrations. More »
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DIY Cryogenic Fluid Made from Dry Ice and Rubbing Alcohol Performs Most Liquid Nitrogen Demonstrations
Want to loan your tablet to a child or friend but don’t want to provide access to all your data? Windows, Android, and even Amazon tablets make it easy. Apple’s iPad has some catching up to do. [Read more]
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iPad is left behind as rival tablets get multiuser support
Feel the need for more computer speed? Even if you’re already rocking a fast SSD ( one of the best upgrades you can make), you can still improve your computer’s performance by adding more memory and turning it into a RAM disk, which can be as much as 70 times faster than a regular hard drive or 20 times faster than an SSD. More »
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Add a RAM Disk to Your Computer for Faster-than-SSD Performance
In his largest donation to date, the social network’s CEO donates nearly $500 million to a local foundation to focus on projects in health and education. [Read more]
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg gives a boatload of cash to charity
The social network is rumored to be amping up its video ads by adding in autoplay, audience targeting, and video expansion. [Read more]
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Facebook said to launch autoplay video ads in news feed
Eerily reminiscent of the design of Sonny and the other NS-5s in I, Robot , Kenshiro is the University of Tokyo’s latest attempt to create a humanoid robot that accurately mimics human movement. And the researchers there believe the best way to build an artificial human is to simply copy our anatomy, particularly our muscular and skeletal systems. More »
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Skeleton Muscle Bot Brings I, Robot’s Future One Step Closer
It’s not clear what might have caused the outage this morning, but it appeared to be fairly widespread. [Read more]
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Gmail goes down briefly for both consumers and enterprise users
An anonymous reader writes “After having Wine to run Windows binaries on Linux, there is now the Darling Project that allows users to run unmodified Apple OS X binaries on Linux. The project builds upon GNUstep and has built the various frameworks/libraries to be binary compatible with OSX/Darwin. The project is still being worked on as part of an academic thesis but is already running basic OS X programs.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Hewlett-Packard says it’s way ahead of Apple in the race to bring more computer assembly back to the U.S. [Read more]
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HP to Apple: Hey, we already make PCs in the U.S.
Consumer weblog “Which?” tested the most popular 7- and 10-inch tablets to compare battery life, and found quite a bit of variation. If you’re looking for a new tablet, here are some things to watch out for. More »
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Tablets Go Head-to-Head on Battery Life, iPad Comes Out On Top