NASA engineers are currently investigating a short circuit that has occurred aboard Curiosity. The Mars rover is not carrying out any further work until the fault is diagnosed. Read more…
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NASA Has Halted Curiosity’s Work to Investigate a Short Circuit
Remember those rumors about a 12-inch MacBook that ditched a MagSafe connector and traditional USB ports for a single USB Type-C port? If true, SanDisk’s new Dual USB Drive will be the first flash drive that’s able to connect to that redesigned hardware without an ugly adapter. Read more…
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SanDisk Has the First Flash Drive With a Reversible USB Type-C Connector
Stop for a second and take a look at the fingernail on your baby finger. That’s roughly the size of a microSD card that can now hold a whopping 200GB of data thanks to SanDisk. Remember when USB flash drives with a full gigabyte of storage were mind-blowing? We were so foolish back then. Read more…
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SanDisk Squeezes 200GB Into a Tiny microSD Card
Concrete is an amazing building material: cheap to create, strong when used correctly, and hard-wearing, too. But turning it into exotic and shapely forms can be prohibitively complex and expensive. Now, a 3D printer capable of producing one-off moulds as large as a phone booth could help turn architectural dreamw into affordable reality. Read more…
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A Room-Sized 3D Printer Will Make Freeform Concrete Design Easy
Today, New York Councilman Daniel Dromm will reportedly introduce legislation that will force the NYPD to stop using typewriters. That’s right, the NYPD still has typewriters in all 77 precincts. Read more…
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It’s Completely Absurd That the Police Still Use Typewriters
Microsoft is offering a somewhat insane cloud storage deal: You can get 100GB of free OneDrive storage for nearly two years if you sign up for a Bing Rewards account. Read more…
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Microsoft Will Give You 100GB of Free OneDrive Storage for Two Years
If you think your 4K laptop drips with graphical power, remember that all things are relative—and a new video standard will allow laptops to make use of 8K screens. Read more…
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New Video Standard Will Allow 8K Laptop Screens
Facebook’s policy on real names only has got it in some PR hot water in the past, when it forced members of the LGBT community to use their legal (but not preferred) names . But it also seems like it has a track record of stupidity when it comes to the Native American community. Read more…
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Facebook Keeps On Not Understanding Native American Names
If you’ve ever gone elbow-deep inside your computer to do some tweaking, you know all about the joys(?) of meticulously applying thermal paste or grease. Even if you’re a pro at applying the goop, there’s a trick that you probably don’t know about: You can just use Nutella instead . Seriously. Read more…
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Out of Thermal Paste for Your PC? Just Use Nutella
Arguably the best thing about the original Star Wars trilogy are the puppets. As George Lucas was not yet visually unleashed by CGI, these films had to work with technical limitations to create the bold and ambitious scenes that the scrips demanded. And no puppet (except, maybe Yoda) was as memorable or complex as Jabba the Hutt. Read more…
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What Life Is Like Inside Jabba the Hutt