Everyone breaks a phone every once in a while. But if you break your new HTC One it’s a little less soul-crushing. HTC says it will fix your cracked display for free in the first six months, even if it’s your fault. Read more…
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HTC Will Fix Your Busted Screen For Free in the First Six Months
It’s getting remarkably easy to hack ATMs these days, and security researchers say that Microsoft’s aging Windows XP is making the problem worse. This week, security analysts at Symantec blogged about a new technique popping up in Mexico that uses text messages to give hackers access. It’s as wild as it sounds. Read more…
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Hackers Can Force ATMs to Spit Out Money With a Text Message
More than 160 years ago, paleontologists found a partial fossil of a 70-million-year-old giant sea turtle, the only known example of its particular species. This week, they found the other half. Read more…
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Both Halves Of A Giant Sea Turtle Fossil Found 160 Years Apart
On the left, a ship in a heavy storm as seen from the deck, going through giant waves. On the right, a ship in a heavy storm seen from a level deep inside, going through the same stress forces. I really don’t know which perspective is scarier. Read more…
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Watch a large ship getting deformed from the inside in a heavy storm
Check out the incredible footage of a ball breaking a glass filmed at an uncanny 10 million frames per second by the HyperVision HPV-X Camera of Shimadzu, a Japanese corporation that makes precision instruments, measuring instruments and medical equipment. Read more…
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Holy crap, watch a ball breaking glass at 10 million frames per second
Aerogel must be one of the strangest supermaterials to ever exist. Ghostly and shimmering in appearance, it’s insanely light, incredibly strong, and an amazing thermal insulator. And its tricks look absolutely impossible when you see them up close. Read more…
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Amazing Aerogel: Eight Looks at the Ghostly Supermaterial in Action
PlanetQuest is NASA’s effort to search for new Earths, exoplanets like ours that would probably contain life too. They’re doing some really cool stuff, like this sunflower-telescope combo spaceship—”a cutting-edge effort to take pictures of planets orbiting stars far from the sun.” Imagine that—seeing the actual planets! Read more…
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NASA’s prettiest spaceship yet will take actual photos of alien worlds
Bitcoin is big money. When Mt. Gox went belly up , hundreds of millions in bitcoin up and disappeared. Now, the troubled exchange just happens to have stumbled into 200, 000 ‘coin it thought was lost , or roughly 116 million dollars. Read more…
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Mt. Gox Found Over $100 Million In Bitcoin In a Random Wallet
Good news, security lovers! Google just announced that Gmail will be all encrypted all the time. More specifically, every single email you send or receive will use an encrypted HTTPS connection, regardless of which device you’re using and which network. Even public Wi-Fi is okay. Read more…
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Every Single Gmail Message You Send Will Now Be Encrypted
Weehawken 16-year-old Justin Casquejo pulled a fast one on the guards at One World Trade Center on Sunday, reaching the spire of the 1, 776-foot-tall tower around 4AM and hanging out for at least two hours. Some people’s rebellious teenage phases are just cooler than others. Read more…
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Teen Sneaks Past Sleeping Guard to Reach Top of 1 WTC