Apple design VP Jony Ive told the Financial Times that Apple had invented a new kind of ultra-hard 18 karat gold for its line of luxury Apple Watches. Though rumors about the gold’s bizarre molecular structure are false, Apple Gold is a real thing. Here’s what the patent reveals about it, and a possible Apple Diamond as well. Read more…
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How Apple Will Make Superhard "Apple Gold" for Its Watches
It should come as no surprise that the Apollo astronauts left a few things behind after landing on the moon. Since the lunar module could only lift so much weight off the surface, they swapped out unwanted goods and gear for moon rocks . Among those unwanted goods were all kinds of weird things. What kinds of weird things? There were 96 bags of poop, pee, and puke. Read more…
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There’s Poop on the Moon
Your gadgets contain tiny specks of precious and rare earth metals—we rely on these dust-sized particles, which are so small they’re often not recycled because the cost of recycling outweighs the value of the metals. But according to the American Chemical Society, the overall value of these minute materials is massive. Read more…
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There’s $2.5 Billion Worth of Silver and Gold in Phones Sold This Year
An anonymous reader writes Oracle is buying hospitality and retail technology vendor Micros Systems for $5.3 billion, in a deal that will be its largest since the purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010. “Oracle said the acquisition will extend its offerings by combining Micros’ industry-specific applications with its business applications, technologies and cloud portfolio. Oracle expects the deal to immediately add to its adjusted earnings. Its stock climbed 18 cents to $41 before the market opened. Micros’ board unanimously approved the transaction, which is expected to close in the second half of the year.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Oracle Buying Micros Systems For $5.3 Billion
Intel has just announced a new reference PC design that uses its upcoming Broadwell chipset. Usually, that wouldn’t get us excited—but this concept ushers in the prospect of silent ultrabooks and MacBook Airs. Read more…
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Intel’s New Broadwell Processor Could Make Your Next Ultrabook Silent
Coral sex is a wonder to behold. On a summer night, always around a full moon, corals somehow all know to release billions of sperm and eggs into the sea, turning the water into a pink miasma of sex. This spawning relies on precise environmental cues, which could get scrambled in climate change. That’s why researchers are trying to get them to spawn in the lab. Read more…
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Look At These Beautiful Little Corals Grown Like Popsicles In A Lab
Let’s take rooftop farming to a whole new level—a microscopic level. Unveiled at Expo Milan this week, the Urban Algae Canopy is a living, breathing alternative to our inert roofs and facades. Could algae be the next hip trend in urban agriculture? Read more…
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This Photosynthetic Algae Roof Filters the Neighborhood Air
Rumors of larger iPhones that take a page from the Android phablet handbook have been swirling around for a while now , and the WSJ is now chiming in with reports that two are coming this year. One with a screen bigger than 4.5 inches, the other with a screen bigger than 5 inches. Read more…
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WSJ: Two Different Big-Screen iPhones Are Coming This Year
SonicSpike writes “Overstock plans to become the first big U.S. online retailer to accept Bitcoin, as Patrick Byrne, the company’s libertarian chief executive, warms to the virtual currency as a refuge from government control. Mr Byrne told the Financial Times that Overstock planned to start accepting Bitcoin next year – possibly by the end of the second quarter – a decision that he said was driven mainly by his own political philosophy. ‘I think a healthy monetary system at the end of the day isn’t an upside down pyramid based on the whim of a government official, but is based on something that they can’t control, ‘ Mr Byrne said.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Overstock.com Plans To Accept Bitcoin
When Megaupload got taken down two years ago, it took a whole hell of a lot of data with it. And eventually it got obliterated . Some of it was pirate data, sure, but some was legit too. And new research shows that, at the very least, ten million innocent files got the axe . Read more…
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The Megaupload Takedown Killed At Least 10 Million Innocent Files