Olympus’ 5-axis image stabilization is some of the best out there. The system makes images that would ordinarily be too blurry to use suddenly shake-free. This video captures a view of what the system looks like under the hood. It’s hypnotizing. Read more…
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Watch Olympus’ Dope Image Stabilization Work Like Magic
The laws of probability seems simple at first thought, but scratch the surface and their inner truth can be rather more counterintuitive. This video describes one of those situations—and the answer might prove more useful than you think. Read more…
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How Understanding Probability Could Save Your Life
Across the Hudson and over Newark Bay, about 15 miles from Manhattan, a group of investors led by Goldman Sachs is financing the construction of what will become the largest vertical farm in the world inside a former steel mill. Read more…
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The World’s Largest Vertical Farm Is Being Built In an Old Steel Mill
Looking more like a wisp of stellar smoke than anything else, these shockwaves are anything but gentle. The twisted mass is part of the Veil Nebula, the remnants of a star that now tears through space. Read more…
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These Are the Twisted Shockwaves Produced By an Exploding Star
If you’ve ever toyed with the petals of a rose, you’ll know that they’re pleasingly stretchy. Now, their material properties are being aped to produce a new breed of stretchable electronics. Read more…
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
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
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
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
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