Microsoft has won the right to disclose the FBI’s demand for information about Office 365 customer—a pretty significant victory for transparency and free speech. Read more…
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If you’re a cinema fan you may know part of this story but, if you aren’t, this video is a throughout summary of how American westerns influenced the samurais of Akira Kurosawa—and how the samurais of Akira Kurosawa influenced that galactic western known as Star Wars. Read more…
The Surface Pro has never been a bad idea. One device that’s both your laptop and your tablet! Sounds great! The problem was that it was just never quite either; it was awkward on both counts. The new, bigger Surface Pro 3 though, might have actually pulled it off. Read more…
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Surface Pro 3 Hands On: A Laptop Replacement That Just Might Work
This week, for the first time in decades, the Colorado River flowed to its natural end in the Gulf of California. But it was the opposite of a natural event. The artificially engineered “pulse flow” that pushed the waters all the way to the Gulf required an unprecedented collaboration between the U.S. and Mexico, wading into a complex body of laws around a basic question: to whom does a river belong? Read more…
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How the Colorado River Finally Reached the Sea Again
To learn how the whole brain works, it doesn’t do to just record from one neuron—you want to know what every single neuron is doing every millisecond . Now scientists have invented a technique that can actually capture the 3D activity of an entire brain milliseconds at the time—possibly the most complete picture of brain activity we’ve ever had. Read more…
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Every Neuron in a Brain Recorded in 3D on a Millisecond Timescale
You may think this looks like the surface of the Death Star, but actually it’s a microscopic device that delivers DNA into the nucleus of a single cell. Read more…
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This Mechanical Nano-Lance Is One Hundredth the Size of a Human Hair
Inside a cave so deep and dark it’s called Hoyo Negro, or Spanish for “black hole, ” divers are transporting a 12, 000-year-old skull for 3D scanning. The skull belongs to one of the oldest and most complete skeletons ever found in the Americas. Lucky for us, the expedition was documented with an entire set of stunning photos. Read more…
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This Diver Is Cradling a 12,000-Year-Old Skull in an Underwater Cave
Holy crap, this guy made the best Wolverine claws replicas ever. These 12-inch steel blades are fully automatic: they can deploy or retract with the push of a button. I’ve seen many tries at making these, but nothing as amazing as this these ones. And for sure, you can use these as real—very—mortal weapons. Read more…
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These fully automatic Wolverine claws are as badass as the real thing
As many as 50, 000 gallons of crude oil spilled onto the streets of Los Angeles early this morning when a 20-inch pipeline ruptured. According to the Los Angeles Fire Department , the oil is knee-deep in places. Read more…
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Thousands of Gallons of Crude Oil Spill In Los Angeles
I recently switched from an iPhone to Android, and discovered shortly thereafter that my phone number was still associated with iMessage, meaning that any time someone with an iPhone tried texting me, I’d receive nothing, and they’d get a “Delivered” receipt in their Messages app as though everything were working as expected. Read more…