The last time Hamburg’s hulking air raid bunker saw use, it was 1945—and locals were taking cover from Allied bombs inside its six-foot-thick concrete walls. That was almost 70 years ago. This year, the bunker is serving a new purpose: Supplying the city with renewable energy. Read more…
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This Abandoned Nazi Bunker Just Reopened As a Clean Energy Plant
jeditobe writes with this announcement from the ReactOS home page: “The ReactOS Project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.3.16. A little under a year has passed since the previous release and a significant amount of progress has been made. More than 400 bugs were eliminated. Some of the most significant include completion of the CSRSS rewrite and the first stages of a shell32 rewrite. 0.3.16 is in many ways a prelude to several new features that will provide a noticeable enhancement to user visible functionality. A preview can be seen in the form of theme support, which while disabled by default can be turned on to demonstrate the Lautus theme developed by community member Maciej Janiszewki. Another user visible change is a new network card driver for the RTL8139, allowing ReactOS to support newer versions of QEMU out of the box.” You can download release images here. Want to see how it handles Windows software? Here are demos of Office 2003, Photoshop CS2, and OpenMPT. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Windows Replacement? ReactOS 0.3.16 Gets Themes, CSRSS Rewrite, and More
The Breakmate was supposed to revolutionize how we consumed soda, on par with the advent of the soda fountain and soda bottles, and bring delicious sugary soft drinks to millions of disenfranchised American office workers. So why did Coca-Cola’s foray into small-scale commercial vending during the 1980’s flop so miserably? Read more…
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The Lost History of Coca-Cola’s Biggest Failure
It’s already a pretty great time to be a couch-bound art lover , and this summer the gallery experience is getting even more futuristic—because anyone with a working Wi-Fi connection will be able to sign up to pilot light- and camera-clad robots around the Tate Britain late at night, offering a self-guided tour with a drone’s-eye-view. Read more…
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You’ll Soon Be Able To Explore Museums After Dark Using These Robots
sciencehabit writes “A gift of dried whale meat—and some clever genetic sleuthing across almost 16, 000 kilometers of equatorial waters—has helped scientists identify a long-forgotten animal as a new species of beaked whale. The ‘resurrection’ raises new questions about beaked whales, the most elusive and mysterious of cetaceans. Overall, the saga shows ‘that there are probably even more species of beaked whales that we don’t know about, ‘ says Phil Clapham, a marine mammalogist at the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, Washington. ‘We don’t see them because they’re very deep-diving and live far from land.’ They also live in a poorly surveyed part of the ocean, Baker says, where very few people dwell on remote atolls.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Dried Meat "Resurrects" Lost Species of Whale
The source of the massive Target security breach that allowed hackers to swipe the credit and debit card data of up to 40 million customers may have finally been tracked down. The culprit? One extremely unfortunate HVAC repairman. Read more…
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Last Month’s Massive Target Hack Was the Heating Guy’s Fault
It seems like snoring has become more of an epidemic than any of us have realized. At CES, Sleep Number revealed its IQ bed that lets bedmates silence a snoring partner. But now there’s a pillow that can stop a deafening snorer all by itself. Read more…
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Snore Sensing Pillow Automatically Nudges You To Roll Over
Pininfarina is known for turning Ferraris and other exotic cars into even more impressive works of art, so it’s a safe assumption that its new 4.EVER Pininfarina Cambiano writing instrument is going to cost a small fortune when available. But with an inkless design that never needs a new cartridge, it could eventually pay for itself—after a century of use. Read more…
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A Gorgeous Inkless Pen That Never Needs a Refill
For the first time in half a decade, the ice atop Lake Superior has frozen thick enough to provide visitors safe passage to the “Sea Caves” of Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands , where centuries of erosive, wave-on-sandstone action have hewn arches, chambers and passageways into the region’s various cliffsides. Read more…
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Did you know Lake Superior has ice caves?
Not everything always came in technicolor; TVs, movies, and photography only existed in black and white for the beginning. And while 3D printing has been largely stuck with single-color creations, it’s recently started to explore more colorful results . Objet500 Connex3 is the latest along those lines, a machine that can print in 46 hues and multiple materials. Read more…
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A Closer Look at How 3D Color Printing Could Change the World