Keven McAlester’s short film which compares Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill in the 1940s to today using perfectly synced footage is the closest thing we can get to experiencing legitimate time travel . Read more…
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Perfectly Synced Side-by-Side Video Compares 1940s Los Angeles to Today
Last week we learned you can jailbreak every current model of Kindle . Even better, while the process is a bit time-consuming, it’s also pretty easy to do. The end result is a Kindle that’s a little more pleasurable to use. Here’s how to do it. Read more…
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How to Jailbreak Your Kindle
In theory, Twitter’s blue “verified” check mark made it harder to impersonate famous people, but in practice it mostly showed who was famous enough to bother impersonating. Prepare for the “verified” badge of approval to stop mattering nearly as much now that Twitter has opened up its once-mysterious verification process to everyone . Read more…
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We Can All Be Verified On Twitter Now
Researchers working in the Netherlands have developed an atomic-scale rewritable data-storage device capable of packing 500 terabits onto a single square inch. Incredibly, that’s enough to store every book written by humans on a surface the size of a postage stamp. Holy shit . Read more…
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Record-Setting Hard Drive Writes Information One Atom At a Time
Ever wonder why your highlighters glow in the dark? How about glow sticks at a rave? Our world is full of glowing objects that awe us even into adulthood, and their existence is easily explained. Read more…
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Fluorescence Is Like A Rave At the Molecular Level
Holy crap. Rebels has a new Big Bad, and it’s an old Big Bad—Grand Admiral Thrawn, the brilliant Imperial military commander who took over the remnants of the Empire in the old Expanded Universe, as revealed in the very first EU novel trilogy by Timothy Zahn. Read more…
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Grand Admiral Thrawn Joins Rebels and the New Star Wars Canon
CNN Turk has been allegedly forced to halt their coverage of the coup in Turkey after soldiers vacated the studio. Read more…
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CNN Turk Facebook Live Feed Taken Over By Military As Coup Attempt Continues
Earlier this week, Taiwanese hackers tricked ATMs into unloading piles of cash—more than $2 million dollars, in fact—without using a credit card. Instead of using a stolen credit card like most ATM thieves, these masked robbers used a computer program and walked away with piles of cash in a backpack. Read more…
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Hackers Snag $2 Million From ATMs Without Using Credit Card
The astronomical map you see here doesn’t depict stars, it shows galaxies— 1.2 million of them, to be exact, a new record for astronomers. This extraordinary new 3D scan of the universe provides yet more evidence that a mysterious substance known as dark energy is likely causing the universe to expand at an accelerating rate. Read more…
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New 3D Map of the Universe Features a Whopping 1.2 Million Galaxies
Today, Christie’s auctioned off the well-worn leather jacket of Albert Einstein . You may know him as the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician who figured out the essence of the universe almost a full century before science could prove him right . But he also had great fashion sense. Read more…
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Someone Bought Einstein’s Smelly Leather Jacket for Nearly $150,000