In order to keep up with the frenetic growth of global shipping traffic— which has quadrupled over the past two decades alone—commercial cargo ships keep getting bigger. And the newest king of the containerships isn’t one of Maersk’s EEE titans, it’s the CSCL Globe. Read more…
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This Is the Biggest Cargo Ship on Earth
Something that seems ripped from the future is being developed right now inside a lab in Brooklyn. It’s the VetiGel which is also known as the borderline magical band-aid of the future. It’s a gel that when applied on a wound, almost immediately stops the bleeding. Here’s the lab where they make the future. Read more…
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Inside the lab that makes the instant blood stopping gel of the future
Well, here’s a cooooool finding. Take any piece of electronic equipment you can think of and its circuits are powered by, yes, electrons. But a new experiment takes us one step closer to “atomtronic circuits” made of supercold quantum matter that can be reconfigured on the fly. Read more…
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How Do We Make Transforming Quantum Circuits? Lasers and Ultracold Atoms
Fancy creating a little more distance between your social and professional facades on Facebook? Well, the Financial Times is reporting that Zuckerberg & Co. are working on a new site, called “Facebook at Work, ” that will do just that. Read more…
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Report: Facebook’s Working on a New "Facebook at Work" Site
We’ve been promising airless, puncture-proof tires for – bloody-ever by this point. But pump-haters, your time is arriving: starting next week, a factory in Piedmont, SC is going to start pumping them out. Read more…
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Michelin’s Airless Tire Might Actually Start Existing
Against all odds, Philae has confirmed that the first ever drilling of a comet has happened! ESA has received telemetry data indicating that the drill went down and up. The probe will now analyze whatever material the drill has managed to grab. What is Philae going to find? Perhaps the buildi ng blocks of life? UPDATED 2. Read more…
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First comet drilling ever confirmed: 100% successful mission, says ESA
A bug in the service that delivers Google ads to thousands of websites went down this morning, producing acres of blank pixels where banner ads once resided . It was a little ad-vacation. Read more…
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Hope You Enjoyed Today’s Ad-Free Internet, Thanks to a Google Glitch
Christopher Becke, a high school physics teacher, made this outstanding size comparison showing what the Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko would look like next to famous spacecrafts from science fiction. His images show the comet next to ships from Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly and Battlestar Galactica. Read more…
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A size comparison of the comet 67P with popular sci-fi spaceships
As scary as Heartbleed was this past Spring, it looks like virtually every Microsoft Windows user is in for a little deja vu. Microsoft just released a critical patch for a huge server vulnerability —one that affects every current version of Windows out there. Read more…
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All Current Versions of Windows Have a Huge Vulnerabilty, Get the Patch Now
Live in a Microsoft bubble? Then you might be able to make good use of its new Work & Play Bundle, which wraps up all its subscription services in one place for $200 a year. Read more…
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All of Microsoft’s Best Subscription Services Are Now in a $200 Bundle