Flexible touch screens have been “just round the corner” for some time now. Heck, Samsung showed off a flexible screen at CES in January 2013. Sadly, it was just a prototype. The truth is that flexible displays just haven’t been durable enough for mass production. Until now. Read more…
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This New Technology Will Finally Bring Flexible Displays To Market
For more than a year, Intel’s 14-nanometer Broadwell chip, the successor to its Haswell microarchitecture, has been consistently delayed , due in part to early-stage manufacturing snafus. But today Intel gave a glimpse of this incredibly tiny powerhouse, and the computing future it will introduce in its wake. Read more…
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Intel’s Broadwell Chips Will Make Full-Fledged PCs as Tiny as Tablets
There’s a very commonly held view that atoms can never touch: bring them together slowly, and you reach a point where they begin to repel. But in this video, Professor Philip Moriarty explains that really isn’t the case. Read more…
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Can Atoms Ever Touch?
Welcome to Reading List , Gizmodo’s weekend collection of the best writing from around the web. Today we’ve got pieces from The Daily Dot, Motherboard, Medium, and more! Read more…
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How a Stoned Teen’s Wikipedia Hoax Is Still Fooling Scholars and Experts
Solar power is one of the most reliable forms of renewable power—but it’s still expensive. Now, a team has developed a smart, adaptive material that could slash the its cost in half. Read more…
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A New Adaptive Material Could Halve the Cost of Solar Power
The advent of online file sharing made it easy for anyone to copy and distribute media for free, and many feel—and fear—that 3D printing will eventually do the same for physical products. So it’s surprisingly refreshing to hear that a corporation like Hasbro has decided to embrace 3D printing, and will work with Shapeways to allow fans to design and sell their own toys based on the company’s properties. Read more…
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Hasbro Won’t Mind If You Design (And Sell) Your Own 3D-Printed Toys
Apple has gotten in the wonderful little habit of discounting some of its most beloved App Store fare for its birthday, and this year is no different. In honor of the sixth anniversary of the App Store, Apple developers have kindly discounted a whole slew of gems for you. We’ve picked out the best of the bunch. Read more…
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The Best Free and Cheap Apps in the App Store Sixth Anniversary Sale
Apple has added on-device step counting to its iOS 8 beta’s Health app—though it almost certainly uses the M7 motion tracking hardware of the iPhone 5S to work. Read more…
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Since building something that’s conventional is out of the question for Dubai, the second-largest United Arab Emirates city announced today that it’s breaking ground on the world’s largest shopping mall. Read more…
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Dubai Is Obviously Building the World’s Biggest Mall
Facebook appears to be offline, internationally. The social network isn’t working on web or mobile, and even its developer platform is down. Facebook is yet to offer an explanation on its own site or via Twitter. Read more…
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Facebook Is Down (Updated: It’s Fixed!)