It’s the stuff of legends: the knight riding to the Crusades with the key to his lady’s chastity belt tucked under his armor. But it’s about as real as stories of Prester John or the Holy Grail . Read more…
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Chastity Belts Were Definitely Not A Medieval Thing
The capacity of our digital storage devices has skyrocketed in recent years. But there’s one storage medium that still kicks the crap out of our state-of-the-art solid state, and humans didn’t invent it. It’s called DNA. Read more…
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How DNA Could Replace Hard Drives
Ever try measuring the straight-line distance between two points on Google Maps? You had to hold some object or appendage up to the little scale, then eyeball-measure the distance on your screen. What a mess. No more—a new update puts the task a right-click away . Also, you can doodle with it. Read more…
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Google Maps Update Lets You Measure Distances (or Aimlessly Doodle)
None of us like to think about our death or the death of a loved one, but death is one thing it’s important to prepare for. When it comes, you don’t want to be stuck trying to get into a loved one’s Gmail or Facebook account to shut things down. This graphic shows you what you’re in for, and what you—or your loved ones—should have ready. Read more…
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This Graphic Shows What Happens to Your Social Accounts When You Die
Apple just released the Mavericks 10.9.4 update. The update fixes some WiFi issues, general reliability issues, and a quirk where some computers weren’t properly waking from sleep. Grab the update from Apple right now . Read more…
Seagate will be shipping a 4TB hard drive that has the distinction of being the world’s first to include a 1TB per platter design. This basically means that each spinning disk in the hard drive has a capacity of 1TB, and that there are four of them. It’s not everyday that you can claim to that have something that’s the “world’s first”, so don’t be too hard on Seagate. This certainly isn’t the first hard drive to have a 4TB capacity, but apparently the new 1TB per platter design significantly increases the hard drive’s performance over the competition. It consumes 35 percent less power than comparable drives on the market with 4TB capacities, and at 145MB/s, it has the highest average data rate as well. But most importantly, the new design will also bring down costs. A hard drive in an external casing can be had for $212, while just the bare drive will cost around $190. Bring on the terabytes, Seagate. My body and my illegally downloaded movies are ready.
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Seagate Ships World’s First 4TB HD With Four 1TB Platters
A team of British researchers have successfully grown a tooth from human gum tissue —which might make false teeth a thing of the past. More »
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Teeth Grown from Gum Cells May Make Dentures Obsolete