Apps die—often. It’s all part of the technological circle of life where alpha predators in multi-billion dollar dens feast on more vulnerable, less cash-infused prey. And one company that has always had an insatiable T. Rex-level hunger is Apple. Read more…
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Every App That Apple’s Tried to Kill
Researchers have discovered a new form of carbon structure, called Q-carbon, that’s harder than diamond and allows artificial versions of the precious stone to be made at room temperature and pressure. Read more…
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There’s a New Form of Carbon That’s Harder Than Diamond
This is really cool: astronauts onboard the International Space Station have long shown off what it’s like to play with water in microgravity. Now, they’ve taken some ultra high-def footage with color and effervescent tablets. Read more…
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This High-Def Footage Of Colored Water On The ISS Is Mesmerizing
Thanks to this explanatory video full of really cool time lapse footages, we can take a look inside BAE Systems’ shipbuilding halls in Scotland, where the new offshore patrol vessels for the Royal Navy are being built as part of a £348 million contract, or about $530 million. Read more…
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Plasma-Cutting Steel Underwater Is a Wondrous Phase of Shipbuilding
Imagine putting this thing on a ring. You’re looking at the biggest diamond to be found in the last 100 years, which was discovered in a mine in north-central Botswana. Read more…
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Miners Just Unearthed This Huge Diamond—the Largest To Be Found in 100 Years
A bunch of Apple services are down, it’s not just your imagination! The App Store, iTunes Store, and a bunch of other Stores you didn’t even know about aren’t working. Use your time free from capitalist digital tyranny carefully. Read more…
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A bunch of Apple services are down, it’s not just your imagination!
Entanglement is one of the strangest aspects of quantum mechanics, whereby two subatomic particles can be so closely connected that one can seem to influence the other even across long distances. Albert Einstein dubbed it “spooky action at a distance, ” and two new experiments have now definitively shown that the phenomenon is real. Read more…
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Physicists Prove That Spooky Action At a Distance Is Real
An artificial intelligence program received such high scores on a standardized test that it’d have an 80% chance of getting into a Japanese university. Read more…
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An AI Program in Japan Just Passed a College Entrance Exam
Battery life is one of the biggest headaches in tech—but while capacity remains a problem, manufacturers are at least making big improvements to charge times. Like Huawei, whose new experimental set-up can take a dead battery to 48 percent change in about five minutes. Read more…
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Huawei’s Researhers Can Charge a 3,000mAh Battery to 48% in 5 Minutes
Back in the early 1960s, Dr Stewart Adams had a bad hangover. So he did what many a confident scientist of the time might do: he took a handful of an experimental drug he was working on. It worked—and the compound went on to become known as ibuprofen. Read more…
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How a Bad Hangover Helped Discover Ibuprofen