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Deloitte Says Millennials Will Spend $62 Billion on Media in 2015
Re/code - 18 Jan 2015 03:13
Millennials will spend a surprising sum on media this year.
Leaked Snowden Docs Show That Some Spies Treat Cyberwar as a Punchline
Gizmodo - 18 Jan 2015 17:19
Yesterday evening, an absolutely huge collection of Snowden classified data was published on the German website Der Spiegel. Among the horribly designed slides, filled with terrible clip art and font choices (seriously g...
How iPhone health gadgets could change what 'see your doctor' means
Mashable - 18 Jan 2015 06:22Facebook Messenger adds voice transcription (for some)
Engadget - 18 Jan 2015 13:05
Google Voice's transcription feature really comes in handy when when you're not in the position to listen to spoken messages. This news isn't about Google Voice, though -- it's about a similar (but experimental) transcri...
The Clone Photography of Daisuke Takakura
PetaPixel - 18 Jan 2015 17:02NSA-Led Panel Says There's No Alternative To NSA Data Collection
Gizmodo - 18 Jan 2015 01:00
Surprise! An academic advisory panel, chaired by director of national intelligence James Clapper -- yup, the same guy who lied to Congress -- has concluded that there's no alternative to bulk data collection. Sorry, citi...
Budweiser built a life-size Pac Man game for a Super Bowl ad
Digital Trends - 18 Jan 2015 22:39
Budweiser constructed a life-size Pac Man maze in Los Angeles' Fashion District recently for a Bud Light advertisement, set to air at the upcoming Super Bowl XLIX in February. The post Budweiser built a life-size Pac Man...
Steve Jobs rolls over in his grave: the iPad Pro could have a stylus
Cult of Mac - 18 Jan 2015 21:00
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is usually dead right with his predictions on upcoming Apple products. But lately, his predictions have been whoppers. First, Kuo predicted that Apple would ditch Intel chips in the Ma...
Master Cpl. Jeff Davis, lip-syncing Delaware police officer
The Loop - 18 Jan 2015 19:02
7Online: A video of a bald and burly Delaware police officer enthusiastically lip-syncing to Taylor Swift's "Shake it Off" is getting global attention.The video, posted to the Dover Police Department's Facebook page Frid...
Maser -- A Microwave Laser -- No Bigger Than A Grain Of Rice Created At Princeton
IBTimes - 18 Jan 2015 08:34
Researchers say they have built a microwave laser no bigger than a grain of rice that is powered by single electrons tunneling through artificial atoms known as quantum dots. The device, called a maser, could help make a...
NSA brags about turning the tables on cyberwarfare hackers
Engadget - 18 Jan 2015 02:55
How confident is the National Security Agency about its ability to wage cyberwarfare? Enough so that it's bragging about it. A new round of Edward Snowden leaks published by Der Spiegel reveal that the institution has no...
Rare Jerome Pearson Video Speaking on the Space Elevator Concept
SpaceRef - 18 Jan 2015 18:10
While Sir Arthur C. Clarke popularized the concept of the Space Elevator, it was Jerome Pearson and Yuri Artsutanov who did the original engineering, separately, on the concept originally put forward by Konstantin Tsiolk...
After 17 years in orbit, how durable is the International Space Station?
Fox News - 18 Jan 2015 17:52
Even though the ammonia leak that forced a partial evacuation of the International Space Station's U.S. section on Wednesday proved to be a false alarm, the news did raise questions on the station's durability.
Neil deGrasse Tyson shares meaning of life with 6-year-old, nails it
CNET - 18 Jan 2015 02:24After The Social Web, Here Comes The Trust Web
TechCrunch - 18 Jan 2015 18:00
The bitcoin train is really made up of two revolutions in one: Money and finance, based on the bitcoin protocol, and exploiting the “currency programmability” aspects; and decentralized applications, based on the b...
Sea turtles navigate home using Earth's magnetic field
Mashable - 18 Jan 2015 17:15
Female sea turtles, known to swim thousands of miles before returning to their birthplace to lay eggs, find their way home by relying on unique magnetic signatures along the coast, a new study finds. For more than 50 yea...
Simon Chetrit: Using the Pentax 67 to Conquer Shyness
The Phoblographer - 18 Jan 2015 13:01
Photorapher Simon Chetrit used the Pentax 67 to help him get over shyness and take the portraits of strangers.
Lizard Squad's paid cyberattack service faces a hack of its own
Engadget - 18 Jan 2015 05:04
Lizard Squad is apparently getting a taste of its own medicine. Security guru Brian Krebs has learned that someone hacked Lizard Stresser, the cyberattack-for-hire service that Lizard Squad launched following its takedow...
Feds Operated Yet Another Secret Metadata Database Until 2013
Slashdot - 18 Jan 2015 05:02
A story at Ars Technica describes yet another Federal database of logged call details maintained by the Federal government which has now come to light, this one maintained by the Department of Justice rather than the NSA...
Shipping Port Gets Super-Sized Rooftop Solar System
Forbes - 18 Jan 2015 02:52
Singapore’s Jurong Port, an international shipping terminal for dry bulk and containerized cargo, is installing the largest port-based solar power system in the world.
With Thanks to Our Twitter Community!
The Daily Galaxy - 18 Jan 2015 22:31
My thanks to our vibrant Twitter community. We've just reached 330,000 followers, including many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and g...
Top 5 Videos in Elon Musk and SpaceX's Quest For Reusable Rockets
Singularity Hub - 18 Jan 2015 20:00
A week ago, in the open ocean off the Florida coast, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket nearly made history. SpaceX is attempting to recover, refurbish, and...