For nearly two years, the Air Force’s X-37B autonomous space plane has been circling around the Earth doing who knows what. Now it’s finally coming back to Earth , carrying all its secrets with it. Read more…
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The Air Force’s Mysterious Spy Plane Is Landing After 2 Years in Space
There are a lot of really great updates to iOS 8 launching today. We’ve unearthed some of the less obvious tricks and features that are going to level up your phone in a hurry. Read more…
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iOS 8: The Best Hidden Features
The largest companies consume a shockingly huge amount of the world’s natural resources. Ikea, for instance, uses 17.8 million cubic yards of wood a year. When it comes to cotton, there’s VF Corp., a relatively unknown corporation that owns some of the best-known clothing brands in the world. Read more…
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A single clothing company consumes 1% of the world’s cotton
jfruh (300774) writes Korean electronics manufacturer LG has shown off experimental see-through, l roll-up displays, paper thin and flexible and capable of letting through about 30% of the light that strikes it. The company is eager to sell the concept and promises it’ll be arriving soon, though they’ve shown of similar (though less capable) technology over the past few years and have yet to bring any products to market. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Coming Soon(ish) From LG: Transparent, Rollup Display
Iddo Genuth (903542) writes “Israeli scientists from the Tel Aviv University perfected a method for using cell phone service towers’ microwave emitters to measure rain and snow and even (for the first time ) detect fog with great accuracy over vast areas in real time. The research team members have analyzed endless amounts of raw cellular data and developed more accurate ways to measure meteorological information and added more parameters that they can now measure using their growing database. When combined with existing meteorological monitoring technologies such as radars and local ground based weather stations, the results show unprecedented level of accuracy that can give better and further weather forecast as well as special warnings about upcoming floods, fog and hail which can affect both people and crop production.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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New Technology Uses Cellular Towers For Super-Accurate Weather Measurements
One of the best features of the Moto X—besides that perfectly-sized screen—is its always-on listening capability. Nothing beats saying “OK, Google” and watching the device wake up from sleep to do your bidding. It works like magic, and if this Android Police report is true, it’ll be coming to every Android phone before you know it. Read more…
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Google Wants To Bring The Best Moto X Feature to Every Android Phone
Cree, front-runners in the scramble to replace traditional forms of illumination with greener LED sources, has just announced the release of a new type of tube light designed to tackle one of the biggest energy hogs in Corporate America: fluorescent overhead lights. Read more…
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LED Tubes Will Make Fluorescent Seem Old Fashioned
Have an office without a window? Not sure whether to grab your jacket or umbrella on the way out. Sure you could hit the Internet or pop open a weather app on your smartphone, but what fun would that be? Read more…
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Build a DIY Ambient Weather Indicator with an Adafruit Neopixel Ring
Believe it or not, making ice is more complicated than just making water really cold. One thing that helps is bacteria. Yes, bacteria! In this captivatingly magic video, it takes just a second for Pseudomonas syringae to turn a whole jar of water into ice. Read more…
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Whoa, Watch Bacteria Instantly Turn Water Into Ice
The Architect’s Journal reports that Zaha Hadid will be the architect of Iraq’s future parliament building, confirming rumors that have swirled for months. The supremely expensive building is the London-based architect’s third planned project in the country where she was born. Read more…
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$1 Billion Iraqi Parliament Will Rise Over Saddam’s Half-Built Mosque