With each passing year, engineers are getting closer to recreating the 3D interface technology that pop culture has rendered so clearly for decades. Read more…
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You Can Feel These Plasma Holograms Made With Femtosecond Lasers
Apple violated federal antitrust law in a conspiracy with five book publishers to fix ebook prices, according to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court ended a long-running legal battle with a big blow to Apple, calling its ebooks price-fixing scheme “the supreme evil of antitrust.” Read more…
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Apple Will Pay $450 Million for Conspiring to Fix Ebook Pricing
iOS 8.4 was just released today , but it’s already jailbroken. The process is the exact same as it was with iOS 8.3 , just make sure you grab the newest version of the jailbreak tool, TaiG . Read more…
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iOS 8.4 was just released today, but it’s already jailbroken.
The prospect of a material that can change color yet is still flexible enough to wear as clothing is a perennial sci-fi dream—and now amazingly close to reality. This new electronic skin is just a few microns thick and yet manages to change color, acting as a credible digital display. Read more…
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This Full-Color Display is Just Microns Thick and Flexible Like Skin
I used to work at Boeing and repaired the computerized part of the machines which put together 747’s. People not familiar with airplanes are scared because they are forced to be quiet and go along with acting normal while stuck in a tube hurtling through the air at 600 miles an hour, and 30, 000 feet above the earth. What could go wrong? Read more…
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What Are All Those Weird Noises You Hear on an Airplane?
I mean, if you want to get caught committing a crime, please do wear your Fitbit. That’s what a Florida woman learned when she told police she’d been assaulted in March — only to have them examine her Fitbit and discover that the truth was a lot uglier and more awkward. Read more…
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Tip of the Day: Don’t Commit a Crime While Wearing a Fitbit
Many of us know feeling of posting a regrettable pic or two online. But while your thoughtless photos might be an embarrassment, they (typically) aren’t offensive enough to merit a US Air Force strike. If you’re an terrorist, on the other hand, a wee bit more discretion is probably advised. Read more…
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Air Force Uses ‘Moronic’ Selfie to Bomb ISIS Headquarters
After floods hit Denison, Texas last week, park rangers were mystified to find stringy clumps dotting the rain-soaked streets in inexplicably organized lines. It was no pasta-based apres -flood prank. It was just piles of living, squiggling worms. Read more…
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Nobody Knows Why Giant Piles of Worms Mysteriously Lined Up in Texas
SanDisk’s just announced an updated version of its Ultra Fit USB 3.0 flash drive that now comes with 128GB of storage, somehow hidden inside a tiny form factor that’s barely larger than the USB connector hanging off the other end. Read more…
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Where Is the World’s Smallest 128GB Flash Drive Hiding All Its Storage?
Researchers in fields from epidemiology to genetics are studying mummies, using the latest imaging technology. Now we know more than ever before about what lies beneath the mummies’ wrappings — and these long-dead people are telling us a lot about ancient lives and cultures. Read more…
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Everything We’ve Learned About Mummies Using 21st Century Technology