Integrated graphics are getting better and better , but if you really want to game on your laptop, ain’t nothing gonna beat discrete. Nvidia’s new line of GTX mobile cards are about as good as it gets, and they’re not just bringing performance upgrades, but better battery life as well. Read more…
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Nvidia’s New Laptop Cards Are Battery-Saving Scorchers
No, this portrait isn’t made up of thousands upon thousands of magnetic sculpture beads . The metallic wonder’s lifelike contours and shimmer comes from painstakingly hand-placing 13, 000 variably sized platinum beads. Read more…
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Watch Pure Platinum Turn Into a Pricey 3D Portrait
Are you tired of waiting for Nike to design the perfect sneakers for your tastes? Thanks to a new flexible filament from Recreus that can be used in standard 3D printers without clogging the nozzle, you can finally design and print your own kicks in a wide variety of colors. The only limiting factors are your imagination and sense of taste. Read more…
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A New Flexible Filament Lets You 3D-Print Custom Sneakers
A US Court, at the behest of movie studios, has ordered the shutdown of domains related to DVDFab, one of our favorite DVD and Blu-ray ripping tools . For the time being, DVDFab reps say you can get around it by going to the company’s Japanese website . Read more and see the full injunction over at TorrentFreak . Read more…
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The new iPhone camera is 8-megapixels. Meanwhile, Canon is reportedly testing a new DSLR with 75-megapixels. But how many megapixels is the human eye? That is, how many megapixels would an image the size of your field of vision need to be to look normal? Read more…
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What Is the Resolution of the Human Eye?
Every so often, a project slides across your screen that seems too cool to be truly feasible. But Tyler Short, the architecture student behind this incredible louvre system, says his system’s been worked out to the last mechanical detail. Someone, manufacture this thing! Read more…
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This Amazing Mechanical Shading System Makes Blinds Beautiful
We don’t need to tell you that data can be beautiful—but the process of putting it in order can look pretty darn good, too. A new site called SORTING aims to make people aware of just how elegant some of computer science’s most fundamental algorithms can be. Read more…
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Visualizing How Sorting Algorithms Work Is as Good as Any Art
itwbennett writes “As Slashdot readers will remember, last month the U.S government ‘petitioned the court system’ to let the NSA retain phone call metadata for more than 5 years, ironically ‘because it needs to preserve it as evidence for the various privacy lawsuits filed against the government.’ Well, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has ruled against that request. The FISC’s Presiding Judge Reggie B. Walton ruled Friday (PDF) that the proposed amended procedures would further infringe on the privacy interests of U.S. persons whose ‘telephone records were acquired in vast numbers and retained by the government for five years to aid in national security investigation.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Court Denies NSA Request To Hold Phone Records Beyond 5 Years
Have you been wanting to dive into the world of Star Trek novels, but aren’t sure where to start? Check out the Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flowchart , which lays out which books should come earliest on your reading list. Read more…
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The Proper Reading Order for the Star Trek Novels in a Handy Flowchart
Visit any major U.S. city and you’ll likely see the anecdotal evidence that use of public transit is steadily growing in popularity. Last year, however, Americans reached an important milestone: according to a new study by the American Public Transit Association , U.S. residents took almost 10.7 billion trips on transit, the highest number since 1956. Read more…
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Americans Are Riding Public Transit In Record-Breaking Numbers