Did you know there’s a proper way to eat sushi that doesn’t involve completely soaking the rice in soy sauce? You’re only supposed to dip the fish, which can be tricky if you’re not skilled with a set of chopsticks. So Fukuma, a Japanese soy sauce manufacturer, is now packaging the salty brown side in tiny spray bottles so you can perfectly spritz your sushi. Read more…
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Spray-On Soy Sauce Ensures Your Sushi Isn’t Soaked In Salt
Philae, the probe that landed on a comet as part of the Rosetta mission, has detected organic molecules in the comet’s atmosphere. We don’t know exactly what the molecules are yet, but they could hold a key to early life on Earth. Hell, this is a big reason we sent Rosetta all the way to a lonely comet in the first place. Read more…
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Rosetta’s Lander Has Found Organic Molecules on a Comet
Well, here’s a cooooool finding. Take any piece of electronic equipment you can think of and its circuits are powered by, yes, electrons. But a new experiment takes us one step closer to “atomtronic circuits” made of supercold quantum matter that can be reconfigured on the fly. Read more…
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How Do We Make Transforming Quantum Circuits? Lasers and Ultracold Atoms
The oldest lightbulb in continuous use was installed before the Wright Brothers took flight, is 110 years old, and is still as beautiful as the day she was born. In fact, it’s likely the oldest electrical device in continuous use period . Take a moment and consider just how much the world has changed around this one, singular device. Read more…
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The 110 Year-Old Light Bulb That’s Never Been Turned Off
New York ‘s cover story this week proclaims, “Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji.” But are you? Do you understand the difference between the tongue-out emoji and the winking tongue-out emoji? Today’s children communicate almost exclusively in these little smileys , and soon the weak emoji-illiterates in our society will be left behind. Read more…
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12 Emoji That You’re Probably Using Wrong
After seven years and $40 million of development, the US Navy has finally sent its prototype laser weapon, one capable of blowing holes clean through UAVs , on patrol throughout the disputed Persian Gulf . Read more…
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The U.S. Navy’s First Laser Cannon Is Now Deployed in the Persian Gulf
Last month, Mayor De Blasio announced a push to fund green spaces in New York’s poor neighborhoods. This probably isn’t exactly what he meant: Very wealthy power couple Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg have announced plans to fund a giant park in the Hudson River. Read more…
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Some Billionaires Want To Give NYC a $170 Million Floating Park
iOS 8.1.1 is here, and while it’s a pretty minor update, Apple says it should increase performance for the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S, two of the oldest devices that make the leap to iOS 8. Go grab it now, especially if you have some more elderly devices. Read more…
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iOS 8.1.1 is here, and while it’s a pretty minor update, Apple says it should increase performance f
Fancy creating a little more distance between your social and professional facades on Facebook? Well, the Financial Times is reporting that Zuckerberg & Co. are working on a new site, called “Facebook at Work, ” that will do just that. Read more…
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Report: Facebook’s Working on a New "Facebook at Work" Site
Visualizers were the kind of thing that I kind of assumed had died with Windows Media Player and Winamp. But Google says no. Google says you must have motion with your music. Read more…
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Google Play Music Has A Stunning New Visualizer