Trent Reznor has a treat for audio nerds. When Nine Inch Nails’ new record Hesitation Marks drops next week, it’ll be available in regular and audiophile versions. The two sonic flavors will be mixed differently—One mix for the headphone clutching masses who demand “loundness, ” and one mix for the nerds who want to hear every frequency the way it sounded in the studio. Read more…
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NIN’s Hesitation Marks Will Come In an Audio-Nerds-Only Version
Fossils are three-dimensional objects, but you aren’t really supposed to touch them, and you can’t see their depth and detail very easily over the internet. But a new database of fossils from the British Geological Survey actually has the necessary files for you to 3D print fossils yourself. Read more…
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This Database Lets You 3D Print and Explore Thousands of Fossils
According to the Agence France-Presse, “at least” one million cockroaches escaped a nursery in Jiangsu, China where they were being farmed for traditional medicine applications like cancer and inflammation treatments. The bugs got away because of an “unknown perpetrator” who tampered with the plastic greenhouse where they were being raised. Read more…
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A Million Cockroaches Escaped From A Chinese Farm And Are On The Move
Graphene has the power to change computing forever by making the fastest transistors ever. In theory. We just haven’t figured out how yet. Sound familiar ? Fortunately, scientists have just taken a big step closer to making graphene transistors work for real . Read more…
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Scientists Just Figured Out How to Make Lightning-Fast Graphene CPUs
Remember our friendly white hat hacker , Khalil Shreateh, who got stiffed on his just reward after identifying a Facebook bug that let him post on Zuckerberg’s wall? Well, looks like the hacker community has no intention of letting their buddy’s bank account fall to the wayside. After setting up a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe , security researcher Marc Maiffret has successfully collected $10, 000 in donations for Shreateh—a full 20 times more than Facebook’s withheld offering. Read more…
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Facebook Denies Zuck Wall Hacker $500 Reward, Internet Gives Him $10K
Gravity’s often assumed to be constant across the entire planet, but because the Earth varies in shape and density, that’s not really the case. Now, this super-accurate gravity map reveals that the fluctuations are even more extreme than scientists previously thought. Read more…
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A Super-Accurate Gravity Map Shows You Where You Can Weigh Less
Hot diggity. LG just announced an insane 5.5-inch smartphone screen that has pixels that must be made from some sort of mixture between dense diamond sparkles and unicorn blood paint. More seriously, the 5.5-inch AH-IPS LCD display’s resolution is 2, 560 x 1, 440 (Quad HD) and packs 538 pixels per inch. That makes it the highest resolution and ppi for a smartphone panel. Read more…
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LG Made a 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440 Smartphone Display with 538 PPI
Khalil, a Palestinian white hat hacker, submitted bug reports to Facebook about a vulnerability that allowed him to post on anyone’s wall. But Facebook’s security team didn’t do anything. So Khalil wrote on Mark Zuckerberg’s wall about it and was generally a badass. Read more…
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A Guy Hacked Zuck’s Wall After Facebook Ignored His Bug Report
No one really knows exactly how Apple makes sure the apps that wind up in its store are safe. All we know is that the App Store has a comparatively better track record than its Android counterpart . But nothing is ever totally safe. Researchers managed to sneak malware onto the App Store with ease by giving their app the power to transform . Read more…
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Researchers Snuck Malware Onto the App Store By Making It a Transformer
A Florida prison says that a computer “glitch” is to blame after all of the doors in the maximum security wing opened without warning. Wired has news for them , though. Sometimes, these kinds of glitches are caused by sneaky characters called hackers. And this situation looks pretty suspect. Read more…
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A "Glitch" Made All the Doors in a Max. Security Prison Open at Once