Chromebooks are pretty reliable, but problems do happen. Create a restore disk with the Chromebook Recovery Utility, so you can reinstall your operating system if anything ever goes wrong. Read more…
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Chromebook Recovery Utility Makes Recovery Media For Your Chromebook
Kepler just can’t stop discovering exoplanets. Nearly two years after scientists said it was crippled, the planet-hunting telescope recently identified eight new planets. But that’s not all. They’re all in the Goldilocks zone of their respective stars, and two of them are more Earth-like than anything astronomers have ever seen . Read more…
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Kepler Just Found the Most Earth-Like Exoplanets Ever Discovered
When I saw the first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens , it felt instantly familiar. That’s very probably because anything Star Wars feels nostalgic but also because, well, we’ve seen all those scenes from the trailer before! Here is the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens remade shot-by-shot with original footage. Read more…
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New Star Wars trailer perfectly remade with original Star Wars footage
Ever since the dawn of the Twitch livestreaming age, it’s seemed like a no-brainer for Steam to add some sort of quick and easy broadcasting option. And yet for some reason (hint: it’s Valve), they’ve taken their time. But finally, it’s here. Read more…
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You Can Now Livestream Games On Steam
Google just announced a new internet subscription service called Google Contributor , essentially a paywall for web publishers to provide ad-free content for a $1-$3 contribution. Read more…
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You’ll Soon Be Able to Pay to Make Google Ads Disappear
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
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
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
In-flight WiFi is great (because Snapchat on planes!) but also terrible (because paying $12 for two hours of dial-up era internet), something that AT&T was planning to change by offering its own in-flight WiFi. Sadly, AT&T just announced that it’s nuking that idea. Read more…
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AT&T’s Killing Its In-Flight WiFi Plans
Last month, the biggest sunspot in 22 years traversed across the Sun. Labelled AR 2192, it was big enough to see without the need for a telescope. This awesome timelapse animation can show you what you missed. Read more…
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This Ultra-HD timelapse shows the biggest sunspot in 22 years