We delete files all the time to free up space, or to get rid of pesky evidence, but the whole process is a lot more complicated than it seems from the outside. When you go to “delete” something, you’re just pressing the start button on a much more involved, much more random process. So what actually happens to that data? Read more…
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What Actually Happens to All Your Deleted Files?
Everybody loves Wi-Fi. Fast why fy, free wee fee, everywhere wireless. But what if we could actually see the Wi-Fi signals we use everyday? What if they covered the world in an electric smoggy haze? Would you still love it? Ah what the hell, probably hell yes. Read more…
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What the World Would Look Like If You Could Actually See Wi-Fi Signals
For more than a century, scientists have been saying the same thing: It’s impossible to create a water-free disordered magnesium carbonate. It’s too difficult. You’ll never amount to anything ! Well, suck it, haters: Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden have unveiled a super-absorbent version of magnesium carbonate that breaks the world record for surface area and water absorption. Read more…
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Scientists Created an Impossible Supermaterial Totally by Accident
Earlier this week, Elon Musk announced that he would publish an alpha design for his crazy-sounding “Hyperloop” by August 12. According to Musk , the diagram above is as close as anyone has gotten to figuring out how the super-fast transit technology might work. And it seems bonkers. Read more…
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The Best Guess at How Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Transit Fantasy Might Work
One in every thousand or so babies born today will suffer from Down Syndrome, a genetic disorder caused by the presence of a third copy of chromosome 21 that results in learning disabilities, a heightened risk of bowel and blood diseases, and a severely heightened risk of dementia later in life. But a radical new genome treatment method could hold the key to turning off that extra chromosome 21 like a light. Read more…
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Scientists May Have Found a Genomic Off Switch for Down Syndrome
A few weeks ago, we wrote about a tiny micro-bot designed to be injected into a patient’s eye and controlled via magnet—a speck-sized eye surgeon. This week, a group of Berkeley researchers published a study positing a similar concept, except the ‘bots are inside your brain . And they’re the size of dust particles. It’s called neural dust. Of course. Read more…
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Brave New UI: A Fleet of Dust-Sized Sensors Embedded In Your Brain
GroupMe’s a lifechanger . You should use it. Today it got emoji (good) that for some insane reason use its logo in place of a human head, and then attach things like beards and devil horns and headphones to it (uhh). Read more…
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GroupMe, Still Awesome, Now with Emoji That Look Mostly Insane
Amazon Prime just added hundreds of Miramax titles in its instant video library, including award winners like Good Will Hunting and The English Patient , as well as cult favorites like Pulp Fiction , Kill Bill , Trainspotting and Reservoir Dogs . It’s a good get for the streaming service, especially after having lost so many of its greatest hits at the end of last month. Read more…
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Amazon Prime just added hundreds of Miramax titles in its instant video library, including award win
The easiest joke to make about IKEA is that few of its products—from shelves to meatballs—are made from what they seem. But even particleboard still requires wood—and a lot of it, when you’re selling 100 million products every year. Read more…
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IKEA Uses a Staggering One Percent of the World’s Wood
At what point does a building become a city? At 1.2 million square feet, the New Century Global Center certainly toes the line. Read more…
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The Largest Structure Ever Built Has Opened in China