Over a year ago, the solar-powered airplane Solar Impulse 2 started its audacious round-the-world trip —but it became so damaged that it had to pull up short in Hawaii . Now, it’s ready to fly again. Read more…
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Solar-Powered Airplane Solar Impulse 2 to Continue Round-the-World Flight
I was kind of tired of the FBI vs. Apple story, but now it has a secret collective of morally ambiguous hackers, and I’m into it again. Read more…
Several years ago, scientists calculated the properties of an exotic form of carbon—called Carbyne—and found that it promised more strength and stiffness than any other known material. Now, it’s finally been made in a stable form inside an Austrian lab. Read more…
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Scientists Finally Made Carbyne—a Material Stronger Than Graphene—That Lasts
E-readers get a bad rap—probably because there are a lot of illiterate assholes out there who hate reading. For the rest of us totally wicked people e-readers are amazing and Amazon’s rumored announcement of a new e-reader is a cause to celebrate. Read more…
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Leak of New Amazon E-Reader Suggests It’s Flipping Cool
Late last week, an absolutely ginormous python was found caught under a tree that had fallen near a Malaysian construction site. Its length has been pegged at 26 feet (8 meters), which, if verified, would make it the longest snake ever captured. Read more…
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World’s Longest Snake Captured, Promptly Dies
A blood-engorged female Aedes albopictus mosquito feeding on a human host. Photo James Gathany With summer approaching, the risk of a surge in cases of the Zika virus has become a major concern for US officials, and the White House has announced that they would be redirecting money earmarked for Ebola to efforts combatting Zika. Read more…
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The White House Is Redirecting $598 Million From The Fight Against Ebola To Combat Zika
Turning a Raspberry Pi into a retro game station is easily one of the most popular Raspberry Pi projects around. If you want to make that project portable, you’ll need a screen but the most common one, the Adafruit PiTFT, requires a little effort to get it working for more advanced games. Read more…
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Everything You Need to Tweak To Get Raspberry Pi Emulators Working on a Portable Display
Android/iOS: PayPal may be a decent way to transfer money online, but if you use cash, PayPal doesn’t exactly have a local branch you can deposit money at. Until now. The latest app update now lets you deposit money at CVS and Rite-Aid. Read more…
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You Can Now Deposit Cash Into PayPal At Your Nearest CVS or Rite-Aid
Modding a Game Boy to add a retro game console is nothing new . However, one modder took it to the next level with a working cartridge and removable battery pack. Read more…
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Add a Working Cartridge to Your Raspberry Pi Powered Game Boy Console
This will be a day long remembered. Here it is, after months and months of staring at the same picture of Felicity Jones and her band of troops , it’s finally here: the blistering first footage from a whole new chapter in the Star Wars saga. Take a look! Read more…
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The Rebellion Rises In the First Trailer For Rogue One: A Star Wars Story