Technology News
'Destiny' Xur Location, Inventory And Times: Find The Agent Of Nine From Jan. 30 To Feb. 1
IBTimes - 31 Jan 2015 03:34
Hey, "Destiny" fans! It's Friday, and Xur is back in Bungie's popular shooter. The merchant is located in the Tower this weekend, and he'll be there until Sunday. This week, Xur is offering upgraded versions of Exotic ar...
Google's 3D-Scanning Project Tango Just Got a Little More Real
Gizmodo - 31 Jan 2015 17:00
Google ATAP (that's Advanced Technology and Projects) is where wonderful things are born. Things like the animated magic of Glen Keane's Duet or the modular Project Ara smartphone. It's all great stuff, but it's also all...
For Silk Road founder, evidence keeps piling up
CNET - 31 Jan 2015 01:30Researchers may have found the most ingenious way yet to generate solar power
BGR - 31 Jan 2015 04:00
Solar energy is definitely taking off and now researchers may have come up with the absolute best way to generate cheap solar power by installing solar panels in public parking lots. [pmc-related-link href=”://bgr.com/...
Watch a super hydrophobic knife cut through a water droplet
Gizmodo - 31 Jan 2015 02:26
Black magic and sorcery and deals with the devil and breaks in The Matrix and possibly other dimensions. That's what super hydrophobic material is made out of. Like this super hydrophobic knife that just slices through a...
See NASA Launch Rockets Into the Northern Lights in These Spectacular Photos
SPACE.com - 31 Jan 2015 14:24
The gorgeous green glow of the northern lights served as a backdrop for bright white rocket tails in a set of amazing new photos. Five rockets launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska this week carried experimen...
Canon 7D mirror box filmed at 10,000fps
DP Review - 31 Jan 2015 03:16
The Slow Mo Guys do just what their name implies - record slow motion videos. In a new episode they use a Phantom Flex to capture the Canon 7D's mirror box and shutter mechanism being triggered at a variety of shutter sp...
Convert AA Batteries Into C Batteries with Some Thin Cardboard Strips
Life Hacker - 31 Jan 2015 01:02
If you're in need of some C batteries for one of your tools, a little cardboard or some thick paper can convert some AA batteries in no time.
The Pirate Bay is back online after nearly 2 months of downtime
Mashable - 31 Jan 2015 18:25
Nearly two months after it went offline following a police raid in Sweden, torrent-indexing site The Pirate Bay is back online The comeback is hardly surprising. Following a period of complete unavailability, the site wa...
If You Want a 100% Sunny Wedding Day You Can Pay $150k to Explode Clouds
Gizmodo - 31 Jan 2015 18:00
This sounds fake as hell but it does have some scientific backup: A luxury travel company is offering a $150,000 cloud-killing package to guarantee sunny wedding days in the south of France. Pilots will consult with mete...
India tests long-range missile from mobile launcher
Phys.org - 31 Jan 2015 15:29
India on Saturday succeeded for the first time in using a mobile launcher to test-fire a long-range missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead deep inside rival China.
Watch this mesmerizing timelapse video of Earth in infrared light
BGR - 31 Jan 2015 04:45
We can’t get enough awesome footage of Earth taken from space. Now James Tyrwhitt-Drake has given us yet another jewel in the form of NASA footage that’s been edited into a timelapse movie that shows the Earth in inf...
"Dread Pirate Roberts" sought romance online
USA Today - 31 Jan 2015 03:12Magnetic Field Lines on the Sun
SpaceRef - 31 Jan 2015 23:58
Scientists have developed a way to produce models of where the magnetic field lines are several times each day....
Blizzard Aftermath Seen From Space
SpaceRef - 31 Jan 2015 22:56
As the storm moves offshore and the skies clear over the Northeast United States, the extent of snowfall from the blizzard is shown in this image from the Suomi NPP satellite imagery, taken on January 28, 2015 at 1:50 ES...
GeForce GTX 980 and 970 Cards From MSI, EVGA, and Zotac Reviewed
Slashdot - 31 Jan 2015 22:51
MojoKid writes: In all of its iterations, NVIDIA's Maxwell architecture has proven to be a good performing, power-efficient GPU thus far. At the high-end of the product stack is where some of the most interesting product...
New video purportedly shows ISIS militants beheading Japanese journalist
Mashable - 31 Jan 2015 22:49
An online video released Saturday purportedly shows Islamic State (ISIS) militants beheading Japanese journalist Kenji Goto. The video, which has not yet been authenticated, shows a militant with a British accent beheadi...
NASA Launches Revolutionary Earth Science Satellite Measuring Soil Moisture Cycle
Universe Today - 31 Jan 2015 20:52
At dawn this morning (Jan. 31) NASA launched an advanced Earth science satellite aimed at making measurements of our planet's surface soil moisture and freeze/thaw states from space that will revolutionize our understand...
Awesome New Radar Images of Asteroid 2004 BL86
Universe Today - 31 Jan 2015 20:26
New video of 2004 BL86 and its moon Newly processed images of asteroid 2004 BL86 during it brush with Earth Monday night reveal fresh details of its lumpy surface and orbiting moon. We’ve learned from both optical and ...
NASA's SMAP Mission Launches
Space News - 31 Jan 2015 19:40
WASHINGTON -- After weather and equipment delays earlier in the week, NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) successfully launched Jan. 31 aboard one of the last remaining United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rockets. SMAP...
Happy Hour Watches - With a Bottle Opener
The Gadget Flow - 31 Jan 2015 09:00
What makes the Happy Hour Watches more than a timepiece is the bottle opener in disguise. The case has been made of brushed or black IP stainless steel which is 100M water resistant. The dial, on the other hand, has a ma...
As the Powerful Argue AI Ethics, Might Superintelligence Arise on the Fringes?
Singularity Hub - 31 Jan 2015 20:30
Last year, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking admitted they were concerned about artificial intelligence. While undeniably brilliant, neither are AI researchers. Then this week Bill Gates leapt into the fray, also voicing con...