Electric chainsaws aren’t anywhere near as powerful as the ones with gas engines, but Makita’s X2 LXT comes close—and offers several key advantages if you don’t need a tool capable of clear-cutting a forest. Read more…
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An Electric Chainsaw So Badass It Needs Two Batteries
The 1980s ushered in more than a few aeronautical revolutions thanks to the emergence of both composite manufacturing techniques and rapidly advancing digital technology. This uniquely designed experimental aircraft integrated all of them into a single system. Read more…
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This Wacky Forward Wing Jet Flew Faster Than the Speed of Sound
Taco Cowboy writes “Perhaps it’s not much, but China has released a panoramic view of the moonscape where their lander has landed. They ‘stitched’ up some 60 photos taken by 3 cameras on the Chang’e 3 lander, taken from 3 different angles — Vertical, 15 degrees up, and 15 degrees down. From the picture, there is a significant sized crater is seen, several meters wide, off to the left of Yutu, the (jade rabbit) moon rover, and located only about 10 meters away from the Chang’e-3 lander.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Panoramic Picture Taken By China’s Moon Lander
You’ll need a brand new strategy for Duels of the Planeswalkers, the casual “video game” version of the Magic the Gathering card game. Luckily, our ultimate Planeswalkers guide will tell you when to counterspell, when to summon a massive elder thing, when to reanimate a demon corpse, and how to lay waste to your opponent. Read more…
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How to conquer Magic the Gathering’s new Duels of the Planeswalkers
How the heck did they come up with some of the crazy monsters in Dungeons & Dragons ? There are a lot of weird, memorable monsters that GMs can use to strike fear into the heart of players — and the inspiration behind them is way different than what you probably expect. Read more…
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The Surprising Inspiration for Dungeons & Dragons’ Weirdest Monsters
We’re all outraged by the NSA’s invasions of privacy, sure—but we don’t perhaps understand exactly how it managed it. This video explains the maths behind the agency’s surveillance. Read more…
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The Math Behind the NSA’s Email Hacks
The island of California. A huge triangle of land called Florida. A great ocean that cut down from the Arctic into the Midwest. As the New World came into focus beginning in the 17th century, explorers and cartographers struggled to measure a massive expanse of land that would take centuries to accurately map. Read more…
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12 Maps of America From Before We Knew What It Looked Like
The world may be oohing and awing over all the wonderful uses we’re finding for graphene, but there’s another super-material vying for the spotlight. Vanadium dioxide might eventually become a household name because in addition to revolutionizing electronics, researchers have now discovered it can be used as an artificial muscle 1, 000 times stronger than our own. Read more…
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Berkeley Researchers Create Robo-Muscles 1,000 Times Stronger Than Ours
If you asked Santa for the chance to get favorite jailbreak features back on your iDevice this year, your Christmas miracle has arrived. The Evasi0n team just posted an iOS 7 Jailbreak . Read more…
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There’s Finally an iOS 7 Jailbreak
SonicSpike writes “Overstock plans to become the first big U.S. online retailer to accept Bitcoin, as Patrick Byrne, the company’s libertarian chief executive, warms to the virtual currency as a refuge from government control. Mr Byrne told the Financial Times that Overstock planned to start accepting Bitcoin next year – possibly by the end of the second quarter – a decision that he said was driven mainly by his own political philosophy. ‘I think a healthy monetary system at the end of the day isn’t an upside down pyramid based on the whim of a government official, but is based on something that they can’t control, ‘ Mr Byrne said.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Overstock.com Plans To Accept Bitcoin