According to Bloomberg , the source of the huge Sony Pictures leak has been traced to a five-star hotel in Thailand’s capital . Leaching off of the St. Regis hotel’s high-speed wi-fi, the hackers, currently believed the work of the North Korea-linked group DarkSeoul, carried out their devastating and embarrassing attack, leaking 47, 000 SSNs and other sensitive information. Read more…
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Report: Sony Leak Traced to a Bangkok Hotel
NASA’s Orion spacecraft, designed to ferry the first humans to Mars, lifts off from Cape Canaveral on Friday morning. Orion reached speeds of 20, ooo mph and traveled 3, 600 miles from Earth before a successful splashdown in the Pacific. [ Bill Ingalls/NASA ] Read more…
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NASA’s Orion spacecraft, designed to ferry the first humans to Mars, lifts off from Cape Canaveral o
The CarPlay interface is undoubtedly better for using while driving than the regular ‘ole screen. But unless you’ve got a shiny new car (or one of the expensive aftermarket dashes), chances are you don’t have anything to pair your iPhone with. But this tweak gives you an idea of what CarPlay would look like running on just your handset. Read more…
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This Tweak Puts CarPlay On Your iPhone Without An External Screen
There’s residential design, and then there’s jigsaw puzzle design. This elegant project by the San Francisco architect Christi Azevedo , who wedged a full guest house into a laundry and boiler room from 1916, f alls somewhere in between the two. Read more…
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There’s an Entire House Crammed Into This Tiny 98-Year-Old Boiler Room
In the spirit of making problems go away, sometimes you want to just launch a particular person/problem into the sun. So—could you? And just how big would the canon need to be? Read more…
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Could You Launch Someone Into the Sun With a Big Enough Cannon?
When I saw the first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens , it felt instantly familiar. That’s very probably because anything Star Wars feels nostalgic but also because, well, we’ve seen all those scenes from the trailer before! Here is the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens remade shot-by-shot with original footage. Read more…
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New Star Wars trailer perfectly remade with original Star Wars footage
Gangnam Style fell out of the public eye a while ago (thank god) but people haven’t stopped watching it. It’s been seen so many times that it actually broke YouTube’s view counter, in the nerdiest possible way by busting the code behind the scenes. Read more…
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Gangnam Style Broke YouTube’s View Counter
Chris New took these fascinating loops at GE Global Research lab. Above: ” A tube of almost pure quartz heated to temperatures of around 1, 700 Celsius to create custom laboratory glassware.” Read more…
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Quartz heated at 1,700C looks like something out of Tony Stark’s lab
Is o nly going up in the elevator getting you down? Not for much longer: ThyssenKrupp, the German steel and engineering company, has announced that it’s building the next generation of elevators that will use magnetic levitation to travel up, down and side-to-side at speed in the buildings of the future. Read more…
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Future Elevators Will Use Maglev to Go Up, Down—and Sideways
The 8.2 version of iOS is still in beta and unavailable to non-developers, but that hasn’t stopped Chinese-based outfit TaiG from breaking it free from Apple’s shackles (and also jailbreaking 8.1.1, the current release, in the process). Read more…