If you don’t recognize it, that’s Daft Punk’s Around the World playing off a plastic LP created with a high-resolution 3D printer . It sounds awful, even worse than AM radio ever did, but that’s not what’s really important here. The fact that it exists at all is what’s neat, and it’s another example of how we’re just barely beginning to wrap our heads around the potential of 3D printers. More »
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Yep, 3D Printed Records Sound Awful, But They’re Still Pretty Awesome
Today Facebook is adding a couple of new settings for messages to make sure you see the ones you need to see. And it’s also testing a system where you pay a buck to ensure someone you aren’t friends with reads a note you sent. Ugh, hopefully that test fails. More »
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Facebook Might Make You Pay To Send Messages To Strangers
The pace of High Energy Laser (HEL) technology has become a sprint with nations and defense firms alike racing to develop more and more powerful systems. Nowhere is this breakneck pace clearer than at Rheinmetall’s Ochsenboden Proving Ground, especially during a recent test of the company’s shiny, new, 500-percent improved HEL anti-artillery platform. More »
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This Laser Weapon Got Five Times More Powerful in Just One Year
sciencehabit writes “Astronomers have discovered what may be five planets orbiting Tau Ceti, the closest single star beyond our solar system whose temperature and luminosity nearly match the sun’s. If the planets are there, one of them is about the right distance from the star to sport mild temperatures, oceans of liquid water, and even life (paper).” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Possible Habitable Planet Just 12 Light Years Away
Bookmark and Read Later apps like Pocket, Instapaper, and Readability are awesome ways to store and catch up on the interesting articles you find online, but if you use Google Reader, saving those articles is a multi-step process. Here’s an IFTTT recipe that will send articles to your favorite service in one keystroke. More »
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Automatically Send Starred Google Reader Articles to Pocket or Instapaper
Lucas123 writes “After dropping 20% in the second quarter of 2012 alone, SSD prices fell another 10% in the second half of the year. The better deals for SSDs are now around 80- to 90-cents-per-gigabyte of capacity, though some sale prices have been even lower, according IHS and other research firms. For some models, the prices have dropped 300% over the past three years. At the same time, hard disk drive prices have remained “inflated” — about 47% higher than they were prior to the 2011 Thai floods, according to DRAMeXchange.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge
DECula writes “In a move not communicated to its users before hand, Google’s Gmail servers were reconfigured to not connect to remote pop3 servers that have self-signed certificates, leaving folks with unencrypted connections, or no service when getting email from other services. Not good for the small folks. One suggestion was to allow placing the public keys on Google’s side in the user configuration. That would be a heck of a lot better than just dropping users into never never land.” Apparently, “valid” now means “paid someone Google approves to sign the certificate.” It’s not like commercial CAs have the best security track record either. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Gmail Drops Support for Connecting To Pop3 Servers With Self -Signed Certs
If you find that you cannot access your OS X administrator account, there is a relatively quick way to get it back. [Read more]
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How to quickly restore a missing admin account in OS X
In the second season of the nerdiest adaptation of The Wire to date, New York City police have busted up a violent 41-member gang in Brooklyn using—you guessed it—Facebook and Twitter. Again. More »
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Major Brooklyn Gang Taken Down by Cops on Facebook and Also by Extreme Stupidity
Mapping out your genome is the 21st Century equivalent of staring deep inside your soul; it’s tempting to look, but terrifying what you might find. The DNA divers at 23andMe are hoping that slashing the price of their home-testing service—from $300 down to $100—will be enough to tilt the scales towards discovery. Are they right? More »
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It Now Only Costs $100 To Know Everything About Your DNA