If a friend told you he was off to take a dip in Baltimore’s Harbor, you’d probably be concerned for his health and sanity. But five years from now, swimming in Baltimore’s waterways might not sound so crazy—and there’s an innovative piece of technology to thank. Read more…
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Baltimore’s Stealthy Plan to Make Its Harbor Swimmable By 2020
Sometimes a unique design isn’t enough to make a product a hit, but then it makes an appearance in a major motion picture and suddenly everyone wants one. Let’s call it the DeLorean BTTF effect, and that’s exactly what happened with the Seiko Giugiaro 7A28-7000 once Ripley wore it in Aliens . Read more…
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Seiko Is Re-issuing the Futuristic Watch Ripley Wore In Aliens
Twenty years ago, construction workers in the Israeli town of Lod working under a city street came across something extraordinary: A massive mosaic, laid down almost two millennia before. Now, they’ve found another . Read more…
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These Huge Roman Mosaics Were Hidden Under City Streets For 1,700 Years
An artificial intelligence program received such high scores on a standardized test that it’d have an 80% chance of getting into a Japanese university. Read more…
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An AI Program in Japan Just Passed a College Entrance Exam
Battery life is one of the biggest headaches in tech—but while capacity remains a problem, manufacturers are at least making big improvements to charge times. Like Huawei, whose new experimental set-up can take a dead battery to 48 percent change in about five minutes. Read more…
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Huawei’s Researhers Can Charge a 3,000mAh Battery to 48% in 5 Minutes
A new ultrasound technique uses microbubbles and focused sound waves to help chemo medication sneak past the the stubborn blood-brain barrier. Developed by Canadian surgeons, the technique could eventually be used to treat such conditions as Alzheimer’s and depression. Read more…
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Ultrasound Helps Chemo Drugs Sneak Past Blood-Brain Barrier
Conventional wisdom says that brains don’t fossilize, but these seven fossilized brains beg to differ. Read more…
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Scientists Have Found Fossilized Brains
Crews working on water mains below New York City’s Greenwich Village made an appropriately spooky find for the week after Halloween: A 19th-century burial vault containing the remains of least a dozen people. Read more…
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Workers Discover 19th-Century Burial Vault With a Dozen Human Skeletons Under Manhattan
In the ‘90s, Sennheiser asked it engineers to make the best headphones ever and the result was 300 sets of the legendary Orpheus , each pair of which sold for $16, 000. Now, Sennheiser has created an ever better-sounding successor to those luxurious cans—but they’ll set you back $55, 000. Read more…
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Sennheiser’s Built Probably the World’s Best Headphones—But They Cost $55,000
The FCC has been taking a much-needed stand against companies that block personal Wi-Fi hotspots in an effort to get people to buy overpriced access to (normally crap) Wi-Fi networks. The latest pair of cartoon corporate villains: Hilton Hotels, and M.C. Dean, provider to Wi-Fi to the Baltimore Convention Center. Read more…
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FCC Fines Hilton and MC Dean $750,000 Over Blocking Guests’ Wi-Fi