Laser scanning has helped England do everything from discovering new things about Stonehenge to planning better flood infrastructure . Now, the country has made the entirety of its massive trove of scans available for free—in part because of requests from everyone from researchers to Minecraft players. Read more…
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England Makes 3D Data of the Entire Country Free After Minecrafters Ask For It
The new Ford Focus RS Comes with a Stall Recovery feature that will help you look like less of a jackass after you cut the engine out with the clutch pedal, but it won’t stop you from stalling. Here’s how it works. Read more…
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Here’s How The 2016 Ford Focus RS’s Stall Recovery Feature Works
Sony’s Playstation 4 does most of the TV-watching things a TV-watching box is meant to do, apart from the fact that watching Netflix using two analog sticks is a pain. Sony’s new Bluetooth universal remote should fix all that. Read more…
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A New PS4 Remote Makes the Playstation a Halfway Decent Set-Top Box
According to several reports , the ‘largest-ever technology merger’ is set to be announced later today — and it’s between Dell and storage technology firm EMC, in a deal said to be worth over $50 billion. Read more…
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Dell Reported to Announce $50 Billion ‘Biggest Deal in Tech’ Later Today
The Federal Aviation Authority comes down on hard on illegal drone flights — and now it’s issued its biggest ever fine for the offence, demanding $1.9 million from the aerial photography company SkyPan International. Read more…
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The FAA Issued a $1.9 Million Fine to a Company for Illegal Drone Flights
The Illapel earthquake that hit Chile in September shifted the ground by up to 1.4 meters. That’s awfully far to move the not-so-steady rock below our feet. Read more…
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Parts of Chile Moved More Than a Meter in the Illapel Earthquake
We’ve been seeing teasers about the Tesla Model X for years, but as the first six vehicles finally make their way into the hands of owners tonight we’ve got more info on falcon-doors, mono-post seats, and the SUV’s bioweapon defense mode. Read more…
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Tesla Model X: This Is It
London Underground has been experimenting with a new system which recovers energy lost by braking trains, and it could save the subway system an impressive 5 percent on its energy bills. Read more…
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London Underground Is Trialling Regenerative Braking to Help Power Trains
More than 50 items have been recovered at the site of the ancient Greek shipwreck that yielded the famous Antikythera mechanism. Working at a depth of 180 feet (55 meters), archaeologists managed to pull up the remains of a bone flute, glassware, luxury ceramics, and a bronze armrest. Read more…
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Dozens of Cool Artifacts Recovered From the Antikythera Shipwreck
We’re always being told the U.S. is now lagging behind other, more industrious nations in science and technology and basically anything that isn’t spending on the military. How much are we lagging? Here is a depressing graph to help quantify that. Read more…
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Compared To the Rest of the World, US 4G (Unsurprisingly) Sucks