Airborne pollution is a major issue in China, with local hospitals opening up ” smog clinics ” and waves of city-dwellers migrating to more rural areas to escape . While Chinese officials are pursuing “cloud seeding” as a way to control pollution, a Zhejiang University professor thinks he has a better idea: Sprinklers. Big ones. Read more…
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China Could Wash Away Smog With Artificial Rain Storms From Skyscrapers
The next time you’re peeling a fresh, organic, “all-natural” banana just remember: it’s filled with tons of chemicals! But don’t worry, so is everything else. Read more…
We know how extreme photo retouching can get when human bodies are the focus . But what about when the subject is an inanimate object? This time-lapse shows the insane levels of doting that go into make a Rolex watch look its absolute best. Read more…
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It’s Amazing How Much Retouching Goes Into Even a Rolex Photo
The NSA is monitoring thousands upon thousands of offline computers every day. It’s watching cellphone calls, location data. And if that wasn’t enough, a new report from the Guardian indicates it’s also scooping up around 200 million text messages a day. At random. Read more…
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The NSA Scoops Up 200 Million Random Text Messages Every Day
Adobe is updating Photoshop to let you create 3D-printable files within the program. Hooray! Read more…
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Photoshop Is Getting Support For 3D Printing
An anonymous reader writes “Google today released Chrome version 32 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new version includes tab noise indicators, a new look for Windows 8 Metro mode, and automatic blocking of malware downloads. You can update to the latest release now using the browser’s built-in silent updater, or download it directly from google.com/chrome.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Google Chrome 32 Is Out: Noisy Tabs Indicators, Supervised Users
We already know that the NSA intercepts computer deliveries to introduce backdoors into hardware , but now a story in the New York Times suggests that the Agency uses radio technology to spy on 100, 000 computers that aren’t connected to the internet. Read more…
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The NSA Uses Radio Waves to Monitor 100,000 Computers Without Internet
A new report by the BBC reveals that China isn’t just experimenting with cloning—it’s doing it on an “industrial scale.” Which is at best interesting and at worst more than a small cause for concern. Read more…
When we last saw metamaterials, they were helping us create real-life invisibility cloaks . But, in even more exciting news for true nerds, light-bending metamaterial can also do math. Not just simple math, but calculus. Read more…
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This Amazing, Light-Bending Metamaterial Can Do Calculus
Rumor has it Windows 9 (codenamed “Threshold”) will be revealed at BUILD 2014, with a target delivery date in April 2015. [ WinSuperSite via TechMeme ] Read more…
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Rumor has it Windows 9 (codenamed "Threshold") will be revealed at BUILD 2014, with a target deliver