First Instagram , now this: An architecture and planning firm in Hong Kong has reportedly been chosen to turn a military airstrip in North Korea into an international airport. The plans show two donut-shaped terminals that could contribute to what some are describing as a tiny-but-not-imperceptible North Korean economic boom. Read more…
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Kim Jong-un Confirms Design For a $200 Million International Airport
It sometimes feels like there’s a big data breach in the news every week—but some are far worse than others. This data visulization shows the world’s biggest data breaches to date, and how they compare over time. Read more…
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The World’s Biggest Data Breaches, Visualized
We delete files all the time to free up space, or to get rid of pesky evidence, but the whole process is a lot more complicated than it seems from the outside. When you go to “delete” something, you’re just pressing the start button on a much more involved, much more random process. So what actually happens to that data? Read more…
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What Actually Happens to All Your Deleted Files?
For more than a century, scientists have been saying the same thing: It’s impossible to create a water-free disordered magnesium carbonate. It’s too difficult. You’ll never amount to anything ! Well, suck it, haters: Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden have unveiled a super-absorbent version of magnesium carbonate that breaks the world record for surface area and water absorption. Read more…
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Scientists Created an Impossible Supermaterial Totally by Accident
A few weeks ago, we wrote about a tiny micro-bot designed to be injected into a patient’s eye and controlled via magnet—a speck-sized eye surgeon. This week, a group of Berkeley researchers published a study positing a similar concept, except the ‘bots are inside your brain . And they’re the size of dust particles. It’s called neural dust. Of course. Read more…
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Brave New UI: A Fleet of Dust-Sized Sensors Embedded In Your Brain
GroupMe’s a lifechanger . You should use it. Today it got emoji (good) that for some insane reason use its logo in place of a human head, and then attach things like beards and devil horns and headphones to it (uhh). Read more…
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GroupMe, Still Awesome, Now with Emoji That Look Mostly Insane
The easiest joke to make about IKEA is that few of its products—from shelves to meatballs—are made from what they seem. But even particleboard still requires wood—and a lot of it, when you’re selling 100 million products every year. Read more…
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IKEA Uses a Staggering One Percent of the World’s Wood
Any advanced Internetter knows that the best way to enjoy the pure Internet is to get an ad blocker. It zaps away all the excess and gives you the meaty good stuff. However, it looks like companies are figuring ways to circumvent ad blockers… by paying them off. Google is reportedly paying one of the most popular ad blockers, AdBlock Plus, to not block Google’s ads. Read more…
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Google Supposedly Paid Off AdBlock Plus to Not Block Google Ads
At what point does a building become a city? At 1.2 million square feet, the New Century Global Center certainly toes the line. Read more…
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The Largest Structure Ever Built Has Opened in China
You’d have to be in serious denial not to know that Google Reader is officially dead as of this morning. But there has been a certain ambiguity about how long your data would be available after the rapture. No longer. July 15th is the end. Read more…
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Google Reader Data Will Be Permanently Deleted on July 15th