There’s nothing quite like getting heavily sedated and having a big ol’ camera crammed down your throat so that doctors can take a look at your esophagus and cut out a little peice to study in the lab. A fun Friday night. Fortunately, endoscopy doesn’t have to be like that too much longer thanks to a small, easily-swallowable endoscope that requires no sedation at all, and returns a full 3D rendering. More »
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Tiny Pill-Shaped Cameras Make Endoscopy Easy To Swallow
The 161-megawatt Spinning Spur Wind Project in Oldham County boasts 70 Siemens wind turbines of 2.3 megawatts each. Google says the farm produces enough juice to power more than 60,000 homes in the U.S. [Read more]
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Google wafts $200M to Texas wind farm
Seagates demos its third-gen hybrid drive at CES 2013 and aims to replace all high-end laptop hard drives with hybrid drives. [Read more]
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Seagate embraces SSHDs, phasing out 7,200rpm laptop HDDs
A deal with DocuSign means that anyone filing a request for income verification — meaning most people applying for a mortgage — can sign electronically. [Read more]
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IRS begins accepting DocuSign on 25 million annual forms
Leap Motion’s amazing-looking gesture control debuted last May, and has had developers crawling all over it ever since. Now, Asus has announced that it’s teaming up with the company to produce a range of computers using the tech—and they should be here this year. More »
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Asus Is Putting Sick 3D Gesture Controls in Its PCs This Year
Upping its Web presence with high-level “ask me anything” sessions, the social news site racks in hundreds of millions of users and reveals its top 10 posts of 2012. [Read more]
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Reddit’s visitors skyrocket in 2012 with 37 billion page views
An anonymous reader writes “YouTube has dropped 2 billion fake music industry views and their offending videos. From the article: ‘Google made good on its promise to weed out views inflated by artificial means last week, according to Daily Dot. Record company sites impacted included titans like Universal Music Group, which reportedly lost 1 billion of its 7 billion views, and Sony, who lost 850 million views. The cuts affected marquee names like Rhianna, Beyonce and Justin Bieber. YouTube said in a statement that the figures had been deliberately, artificially inflated. “This was not a bug or a security breach. This was an enforcement of our view count policy,” the company, which is owned by Google, wrote.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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YouTube Drops 2 Billion Fake Music Industry Views
If you’re a science hobbyist you probably don’t have access to actual liquid nitrogen (-320 degrees Fahrenheit) but you can make your own cryo-fluid from dry ice and rubbing alcohol that goes down to -110 degrees Fahrenheit, enough to instantly freeze flowers, cherries, and other popular liquid nitrogen demonstrations. More »
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DIY Cryogenic Fluid Made from Dry Ice and Rubbing Alcohol Performs Most Liquid Nitrogen Demonstrations
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The Soviets Made a Hobbit Movie In 1985. It’s So Terrible it’s Incredible.
In November of 2011, American commercial airlines consumed 48.3 million gallons of fuel— every day —and paid a total of $49.8 billion that month to do so. And with increasingly tight operating budgets, fuel efficiency has quickly become a primary concern for the airlines. Boeing thinks one possible solution is its new plug-in hybrid jet concept that burns 70 percent less gas per flight with the help of the local power grid. More »
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Boeing’s Concept SUGAR Plane Plugs In Like a Prius