NASA’s latest data download just covered way more distance, and contained way more awesome , than any earthbound file transfer: the agency beamed a high-def video down from the International Space Station this week using a high-powered laser . Go ahead and give your WiFi router a good stern look. Read more…
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NASA’s Using Space Laser to Download Video From Orbit at Gigabit Speeds
Holograms are super cool , but they’re hard to make at home. Pepper’s Ghost, on the other hand, is a relatively simple 19th century optical trick that looks like a 3D hologram and brought a very dead Tupac Shakur back to the stage . And Joey Shanks is here to show us how to rig up a system to bring Pepper’s (or Tupac’s) ghost to your home. Read more…
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Make a DIY 3D "Hologram" Like the One That Brought Tupac Back to Life
Don “Big Daddy” Garlits is one of the Old Masters of drag racing . The first driver to officially break the 170, 180, 200, 240, 250, and 270 MPH barriers on a 1/4 mile drag strip, his name is plastered across racing’s many halls of fame. Last week, at 82 years old, Garlits earned another record, driving the world’s fastest electric-powered drag racer to a record-shattering 184.01 MPH on a 1/4 mile drag strip in Florida. Read more…
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A Drag Racing Icon Just Set a 184 MPH World Record for Electric Cars
Vine, Twitter’s six-second looping video app, just pushed another big update to its website, and it looks strangely familiar. It’s got playlists, channels, trending tags, and a “popular now” curated feed. And you no longer have to be a Vine user to use it. In short, it looks a hell of a lot like YouTube, packed to the brim with looping vids that are GIFs in spirit if not in form. Read more…
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Vine’s Website Turned Into a Massive Searchable Library of Tiny Vids
Facebook’s newest feature, Nearby Friends, begins rolling out today . The opt-in app addition lets your friends know when you’re close by, with the option to show your precise location on a map, if that’s the kind of thing you want to share with your friends. Read more…
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Facebook Adds "Nearby Friends" to Show You Where Everyone’s At
In an internal memo, NASA has stated that it will suspend all interaction with the Russian government, in response to Russia’s violations of Ukraine’s territorial independence. Fortunately for U.S. astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson, both currently orbiting on the International Space Station, the two agencies will still cooperate to transport supplies and personnel to and from the ISS. Read more…
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Report: NASA Cuts All Non-ISS Ties with Russia Over Ukraine
Toshiba just took the wraps off a medical breathalyzer that the company says can diagnose diseases by analyzing the air a patient exhales. “Bad breath” just took on a whole new meaning. Read more…
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Toshiba’s New Breathalyzer Diagnoses Diseases, Not Drunks
Cubestormer 3 is a robot with just one job—to solve a scrambled Rubik’s Cube as swiftly as possible. Today, at the Big Bang Fair in Birmingham, UK , it did the task in an astounding 3.253 seconds, faster than any human or robot in the world. Just look at that thing go . Read more…
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Lego Robot With a Smartphone Brain Shatters Rubik’s Cube World Record
Migraines suck, but do they suck enough that you’d strap on an electric headband that zaps your brain’s nerves to block the pain? The FDA doesn’t think that’s such a crazy notion—the agency just approved exactly such a device for treating and preventing migraine headaches. Read more…
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Migraine-Blasting Electric HeadbandIs Coming to The U.S.
Flickr user hala065 brings us these otherworldly images of a beach in the Maldive islands that glows with millions of pinpoints of glowing blue. The light from these bioluminescent phytoplankton looks like a fantastic starry sky somewhere deep in the universe. It’s mesmerizing. Read more…
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World’s most beautiful beach glows like millions of stars at night