You may think toilets aren’t very exciting. That’s where you’re wrong, my friend. Because in Japan, toilets can be self-cleaning wonder thrones that are energy efficient and even keep your buns nice and toasty. A design gallery at one of the country’s major airports shows off Japan’s restroom innovation. Read more…
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This Airport Gallery Shows Off Japan’s Freakin’ Fantastic Hi-Tech Toilets
In the next ten years, Earth’s population is expected to increase by one billion , and only 3% of our planet’s water is fit for drinking. Most of that relatively small amount is trapped in frozen glaciers. But Egyptian researchers have developed a way of removing the salt out of sea water for our growing population in a way that’s super energy efficient. Read more…
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How to Desalinize Water Using Half the Energy of Traditional Methods
According to reliable leaker @evleaks , the big announcement at T-Mobile’s Un-carrier X event on Nov. 10 could be unlimited video streaming that doesn’t cut into your monthly data. This means Netflix and chill could go mobile. Read more…
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T-Mobile’s Next Perk Could Mean Unlimited Netflix
Microsoft’s been upping its app game for awhile now, and the one that’s received the most attention is Outlook. Earlier this year, Microsoft redesigned Outlook to look just like Acompli , an email client it bought months earlier. Now Sunrise, a super-great calendar app recently acquired by Microsoft, will also be sacrificed for the Outlook greater good. Read more…
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Microsoft Outlook Is Getting Ready To Cannibalize Calendar App Sunrise
With the future of computing looking increasingly likely to become light-based , it pays to work out how to make the switching of light as efficient as possible. Enter tiny silicon discs, which have now been shown to be the fastest ever optical switches at the nanoscale. Read more…
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A Tiny Silicon Disc Is the World’s Fastest Nanoscale Optical Switch
Earlier this year, the Record Industry Association of America began to pursue Pandora on behalf of record labels to seek royalties for the use of tracks recorded before 1972. Now, it’s reached a settlement that will see Pandora stump up $90 million for using the songs. Read more…
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Pandora Has to Stump Up $90M For Its Use of Pre-1972 Songs
Archaeologists can figure out how old a substance is by radiocarbon dating, but to do that they need to know what the substance is—and that’s not always clear. Radioactive material comes to the rescue again! Read more…
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How We Figure Out the Composition of a Substance by Hurling Neutrons at It
1Password has announced that it’s switching the format it uses to store its users’ data, so that less of the metadata it holds is left unencrypted. Read more…
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1Password’s Changing Its Data Format Following Metadata Criticism
Conservationists working at the University of Virginia’s Rotunda have inadvertently uncovered a chemical hearth designed by Thomas Jefferson. The discovery is offering fresh insights into how chemistry was taught over 200 years ago. Read more…
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Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Chemistry Lab Found Hidden Behind Wall
It’s taken 6, 000 pissed-off customers, a Change.org petition , and an entire website named Staingate , but Apple has finally agreed that yes, a coating peeling off Retina Macbook displays is not good. Read more…
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Apple Admits That Delaminating Screens Might Actually Be a Problem