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New app treats esports like real sports: Scores, news, standings
Mashable - 4 Feb 2015 19:24
Canadian sports media company TheScore is the first to release an app for esports — competitive games played with a high level of skill, treating them with the same interest and thoroughness as football or basketball. ...
Holy crap, I never realized bowling balls had this weird stuff inside
Gizmodo - 4 Feb 2015 01:59
I'm sure that professional and semi-professional bowlers know that high end bowling balls are not solid but contain weird-looking cores that are supposed to make your game better. I don't know how much science is there, ...
The World's Rockets to Scale
Universe Today - 4 Feb 2015 22:08
Inspired by a book and poster from 1995, titled “Rockets of the World,” graphic artist Tyler Skrabek has provided a new and updated "clean" look for his latest work. "The 'Rockets of the World' poster emulates a 1960...
The Silk Road Case: Ross Ulbricht's Fate Up To Jury As Defense Rests
IBTimes - 4 Feb 2015 06:34
How could a criminal mastermind brilliant enough to create his own anonymous online drug marketplace also be stupid enough to keep a journal of his criminal activity? That was the crux of the closing argument from the de...
Design and construction of the DEAP-3600 dark-matter detector
Phys.org - 4 Feb 2015 13:40
This spring, scientists at SNOLAB will switch on a dark-matter detector that was designed and built at the University of Alberta.
Ancient Microbes May Have Created the World's Largest Gold Mines
Gizmodo - 4 Feb 2015 02:30
Nearly half the gold ever mined comes from the Witwatersrand Basin, a layer of gold-flecked rock that spreads out under South Africa. The mines there are famously deep and prolific. Why is there so much gold concentrated...
Pope Francis Will Host Google+ Hangout
ABC News - 4 Feb 2015 23:15
Pope Francis will be appearing before a global audience on Thursday via webcam when the pontiff hosts his second Google+ hangout.
Microsoft Releases "Universal" Touch-Friendly Office Apps For Windows 10
TechCrunch - 4 Feb 2015 19:43
Microsoft today released early builds of its Office suite designed for Windows 10, software that is designed to accept touch input and work across tablets and phones. Office 2016, the desktop edition of Office, will al...
The International Space Station Workspace
Life Hacker - 4 Feb 2015 03:00
How's this for a unique workspace? This is where ISS astronauts get things done.
Tiny Drones Capture Gorgeous Views of Sizzling Lava Lake
Live Science - 4 Feb 2015 22:50
Stunning footage of a man descending to the rim of a bubbling lava lake was captured using tiny recreational drones.
YouTube's latest experiment: multiple camera angles
Engadget - 4 Feb 2015 21:33
Sports broadcasts were among the first to give viewers the chance to pick how they watch the action on the internet, but now YouTube is giving the feature a try. A video of artist Madilyn Bailey performing at YouTube Mus...
[GadgeTell] Samsung Galaxy S6 metal skeleton pictured from all angles
Technology Tell - 4 Feb 2015 20:18
[From GadgeTell] We've been patiently waiting for visual representation of Samsung's soon-to-be Galaxy S6 while gradually piecing the hardware puzzle together, and today, we give you... the mother lode.
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BGR - 4 Feb 2015 20:05
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Cortana's now predicting the outcome of Premier League matches
Engadget - 4 Feb 2015 15:20
Microsoft's Cortana has already proven itself to be quite the oracle. Last summer, the Windows Phone assistant accurately predicted almost all of the World Cup's knockout matches, and since then it's started guessing NFL...
Dashcams capture apparent footage of Taiwanese plane crash
The Verge - 4 Feb 2015 07:17
Taiwanese drivers reportedly captured the moments before TransAsia flight GE235 crashed into a river near the country's capital city of Taipei today. The unverified footage appears to show the plane, a turboprop ATR-72, ...
Samsung begins mass production of ePoP for smartphones
ZDNet - 4 Feb 2015 07:08
Thinner electronics will be available from the South Korean giant after it started producing its embedded package-on-package memory for smartphones.
Rare part for groundbreaking 1949 British computer found in US
CNET - 4 Feb 2015 03:21Only 40 percent of Ebola donations have been received by affected countries
The Verge - 4 Feb 2015 01:30
The international response to the Ebola crisis was more generous than most health policy experts predicted, but the actual deployment of those resources has been extremely slow, according to an analysis of Ebola donation...
Amazon, Google and Microsoft pay AdBlock Plus to bypass the plug-in
Digital Trends - 4 Feb 2015 01:08
A report from The Financial Times has revealed some of the world's largest technology companies pay AdBlock Plus for automatic whitelisting which bypasses the plug-in's blocking function. The post Amazon, Google and Micr...
Ross Ulbricht Found Guilty On All 7 Counts In Silk Road Trial
Slashdot - 4 Feb 2015 23:15
blottsie writes Ross Ulbricht was convicted on Wednesday of running Silk Road, a Dark Net black market that became over a $100 million Internet phenomenon before Ulbricht's 2013 arrest. Ulbricht was found guilty on all s...
Newfound Frog Has Strange Breeding Habits
Live Science - 4 Feb 2015 21:03Hidden Molten Channel Beneath Earth Discovered with a Blast
Live Science - 4 Feb 2015 20:28
The bottom of the Pacific plate under New Zealand has been visualized in fine detail using reflected sound waves.