Pocket Casts has long been one of our favorite cross-platform podcasting tools , and there’s a new Android version out today with a Material Design overhaul and even more ways to cut down the amount of time it takes to burn through your podcast queue. You can also get statistics on the amount of listening time you’ve saved overall. Read more…
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Burn Through Your Podcasts Faster Than Ever With the New Pocket Casts
Looking more like a wisp of stellar smoke than anything else, these shockwaves are anything but gentle. The twisted mass is part of the Veil Nebula, the remnants of a star that now tears through space. Read more…
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These Are the Twisted Shockwaves Produced By an Exploding Star
After years of planning , the solar-powered airplane Solar Impulse 2 has successfully started its round the world trip . If everything goes to plan, it will become the first aircraft to fly around the globe without a single drop of fuel. Read more…
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Solar Impulse Has Successfully Started Its Round-the-World Trip
Apple design VP Jony Ive told the Financial Times that Apple had invented a new kind of ultra-hard 18 karat gold for its line of luxury Apple Watches. Though rumors about the gold’s bizarre molecular structure are false, Apple Gold is a real thing. Here’s what the patent reveals about it, and a possible Apple Diamond as well. Read more…
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How Apple Will Make Superhard "Apple Gold" for Its Watches
iOS 8.2 is coming today, bringing with it no doubt the new Apple Watch app. Start your iPhones. Read more…
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iOS 8.2 is coming today, bringing with it no doubt the new Apple Watch app.
Chemotherapy is a brutal but often life-saving treatment for an even worse disease. It can also reduce a patient’s white blood cell count, which hinders the body’s ability to fight off infections. Injections of Neulasta (pegfilgrastim) can help boost white blood cells, if given exactly a day later. That’s where this sticker comes in handy. Read more…
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This Sticker Automatically Injects Meds When a Chemo Patient Can’t
Since May 2012, a giant solar farm has slowly started to harvest the sun’s rays in California. Construction finished last month, and the farm — the world’s largest — is now fully operational. It takes a photo from a NASA satellite to grasp how ridiculously huge this operation is. Read more…
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Satellite Image Shows Off The World’s Largest Solar Farm
I first heard of Girl Scout Cookies a few years ago, shortly after I got my prescription for cannabis in California. I went into my local dispensary and asked for whatever buds they had that smelled the nicest. “Have you tried Girl Scout Cookies ?” the woman behind the counter asked. “It’s famous.” Read more…
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Girl Scout Cookies, or California’s Most Notorious Strain of Cannabis
McDonald’s announced today it will begin only sourcing chickens raised without medically important antibiotics in the U.S. When a juggernaut like McDonald’s makes such decisions, the food world listens—and sourcing only antibiotic-free chicken is a big deal. Read more…
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McDonald’s Chickens Going Antibiotic Free Is a Really Big Deal
Quantum computing could make complex calculations trivial in the future, but right now it’s fraught with problems . Consider one of them solved, though, in the shape of a new quantum error correction technique. Read more…
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New Error Correction Take Us a Step Closer to Quantum Computing