Keven McAlester’s short film which compares Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill in the 1940s to today using perfectly synced footage is the closest thing we can get to experiencing legitimate time travel . Read more…
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Perfectly Synced Side-by-Side Video Compares 1940s Los Angeles to Today
Last week we learned you can jailbreak every current model of Kindle . Even better, while the process is a bit time-consuming, it’s also pretty easy to do. The end result is a Kindle that’s a little more pleasurable to use. Here’s how to do it. Read more…
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How to Jailbreak Your Kindle
In theory, Twitter’s blue “verified” check mark made it harder to impersonate famous people, but in practice it mostly showed who was famous enough to bother impersonating. Prepare for the “verified” badge of approval to stop mattering nearly as much now that Twitter has opened up its once-mysterious verification process to everyone . Read more…
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We Can All Be Verified On Twitter Now
Researchers working in the Netherlands have developed an atomic-scale rewritable data-storage device capable of packing 500 terabits onto a single square inch. Incredibly, that’s enough to store every book written by humans on a surface the size of a postage stamp. Holy shit . Read more…
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Record-Setting Hard Drive Writes Information One Atom At a Time
The MeerKAT radio telescope isn’t even finished being built, but it’s already released its first image: a small patch of sky showcasing 1, 300 galaxies. Read more…
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Hundreds of New Galaxies Detected in First Image From Super Telescope
“With Google Play and Android app support hitting Chromebooks, it’s now possible to run Windows applications/games on Chromebooks via CrossOver For Android, ” reports Phoronix. Slashdot reader grungy writes: The first Intel ChromeBooks have access to the Play Store now, and the Android version of Wine apparently runs on them… Pictures show the Steam client running, and a clip of a D3D game. Of course, the Play Store is only available on the ChromeOS developer channel so far, but that should change later this year. CrossOver for Android also hasn’t been officially released, but Thursday CodeWeavers’ president blogged excitedly that “we are staring at a Leprechaun riding on the back of a Unicorn while taking a picture of a UFO. We are running CrossOver through Android on a ChromeBook running a Windows based game launched from the Steam client. THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE…EVER!!!” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Intel ChromeBooks Can Now Run Wine and Steam
Holy crap. Rebels has a new Big Bad, and it’s an old Big Bad—Grand Admiral Thrawn, the brilliant Imperial military commander who took over the remnants of the Empire in the old Expanded Universe, as revealed in the very first EU novel trilogy by Timothy Zahn. Read more…
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Grand Admiral Thrawn Joins Rebels and the New Star Wars Canon
CNN Turk has been allegedly forced to halt their coverage of the coup in Turkey after soldiers vacated the studio. Read more…
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CNN Turk Facebook Live Feed Taken Over By Military As Coup Attempt Continues
Earlier this week, Taiwanese hackers tricked ATMs into unloading piles of cash—more than $2 million dollars, in fact—without using a credit card. Instead of using a stolen credit card like most ATM thieves, these masked robbers used a computer program and walked away with piles of cash in a backpack. Read more…
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Hackers Snag $2 Million From ATMs Without Using Credit Card
The astronomical map you see here doesn’t depict stars, it shows galaxies— 1.2 million of them, to be exact, a new record for astronomers. This extraordinary new 3D scan of the universe provides yet more evidence that a mysterious substance known as dark energy is likely causing the universe to expand at an accelerating rate. Read more…
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New 3D Map of the Universe Features a Whopping 1.2 Million Galaxies