For those who like to really spoil their eyes, Dell’s new 27-inch monitor services them a whopping resolution of 5120×2880 . That works out to 14.7 million pixels in total, and 218 PPI. That’s just a hair shy of the 15-inch MacBook Pro’s 220 PPI, on a display that’s nearly twice the diagonal lenth. Wowza. Read more…
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Dell’s 27-Inch 5K Monitor Is Like Filet Mignon For Your Eyeballs
Lenovo introduced its Helix detachable last year, with a 11.6-inch, 1080p screen, a beefy Intel Core i5 chip inside and a battery-boosting keyboard dock. Pretty much a Surface Pro. This year it’s back with a new, slimmer body and it’s one of the first gadgets out there to rep Intel’s newest “Core M” brains . Read more…
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Lenovo’s New Thinkpad Helix: A Full, Fanless PC in an iPad-Size Body
Did you bust your Nexus 5 smartphone ? Don’t sweat it— users are saying that the Play Store will send you a brand-new (refurbished) handset for free, no matter how you broke yours. Google hasn’t confirmed the offer just yet, but it seems legit . Read more…
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Google Will Apparently Replace Your Nexus 5 No Matter How You Broke It
Saqqara, in Egypt, is the oldest stone complex ever built by humans—and within it sits the oldest pyramid in Egypt. It’s a piece of irreplaceable history that’s been crumbling for 4, 600 years. But according to local news reports, it’s currently being destroyed by the company hired to “restore” it. Read more…
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Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid Is Being Destroyed By the Company Hired to Fix It
Tens of thousands of photons go into making up each pixel in your standard cat photo That’s because e xisting cameras—even infrared night-vision ones—rely on many, many photons of light to create an image. But now physicists have photographed in almost pitch blackness, where there on average is less than one photon of light per pixel. Read more…
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Physicists Figure Out How to Take Photographs In Near-Total Darkness
Underneath every picture of a dog in a beekeeping suit and ice-bucket challenge video you see on the internet, there’s a complex framework of code. Soon, that framework will get a tiny tune-up that will make surfing the web on your phone faster than it’s ever been . Read more…
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New HTML Is About To Make Your Phone Way Better at Using the Internet
Death is unfathomable and terrifying. We try to stave it off with vitamins, checkups, and exercise, to diminish the awful permanence with beliefs in afterlives and miracles. For some people, that’s not enough. There will be no accepting mortality for believers in cryonics, the process of preserving human bodies at low temperatures with hopes of one day reviving them. Read more…
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You Can Pay $200,000 to Replace Your Blood With Antifreeze
Some of the mystery behind Apple’s app rejection decisions has been solved. Now, the powers-that-be behind the App Store have finally revealed why software is so often rejected. You might be surprised by how mundane its reason are. Read more…
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The Top Ten Reasons Why Apple Rejects Apps
This looks like some 3D rendering of a fantastic alien matter that can’t possibly exist on Earth. But, being the amazing planet we live in, it is actually a real thing: “A bismuth crystal illustrating the many iridescent refraction hues of its oxide surface.” We live in a wonderful world, people. Read more…
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A rock so fantastically beautiful that it’s hard to believe is real
