Every day, scientists make discoveries that change the way we live. But sometimes, just sometimes, they achieve results that are so extraordinary or unexpected that they literally don’t know what to do with them. Here are five of the most puzzling. More »
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5 Amazing Scientific Discoveries We Don’t Know What to Do With
After showing us tons of awesome looking games, straight up denied us the console. We have specs , we’ve seen the controller, but we haven’t seen the box yet. Or triangle, or orb, or whatever this non-existant hardware might look like. Oh and no price or release date, either. We don’t even know when Sony will tell us more. Sony stoked our excitement, and there’s no way to be satisfied. What a bummer. More »
Backed by tech luminaries, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, a $3 million reward, is being presented to 11 different scientists for their efforts to cure diseases. [Read more]
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Mark Zuckerberg co-sponsors $33M prize to extend human life
Want to launch your own high-capacity networked storage infrastructure? Backblaze just shared its new 180-terabyte Storage Pod design. [Read more]
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Backblaze shares third-gen storage server design
The latest version of the popular hacking tool officially works with Apple’s recently released iOS 6.1.2. [Read more]
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Evasi0n jailbreak tool supports iOS 6.1.2
Did you hear about the HTC One’s fancy new “UltraPixel Camera”? HTC touts the camera as an end to the “megapixel wars.” UltraPixels! Revolution! And, yes, the technology sounds very promising , but, uh, wait a second, what is an UltraPixel anyway? More »
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What Is an UltraPixel?
Amazon’s Lending Library is a great treat for Kindle-owning Prime members: You get nearly 300,000 books to read for free . Browsing the selection on a Kindle is easy enough, but Amazon doesn’t offer a direct link to these titles on its site. To get to it, you need to jump through a little hoop. More »
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BlackBerry has released news which warns of a vulnerability that could expose enterprise servers to malware attacks. More »
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BlackBerry Security Flaw Could Compromise Enterprise Servers
Stats obsession has been the provenance of baseball’s sabermetricians for the last several decades. But if your data-crunching heart belongs to basketball, you’ve finally got a datum-filled palace to call home. Meet NBA Stats . It’s… comprehensive. More »
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The NBA Built Itself a Massive Interactive Stat Shrine
Deep in your heart you know it: there are like two drivers out there on the road that are causing all the traffic jams and one of those assholes is the guy right in front of you. Well, new information collected from hundreds and hundreds of drivers’ cellphones actually backs that up . Sort of. It turns out that it takes very few jackasses to screw things up for everyone. More »
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Most Traffic Jams Are Caused By Just a Handful of Idiots