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A llama and goat on the loose accosted some guy in a parking lot
Mashable - 23 Mar 2015 18:53
Llamas are on the loose. And they're breaking their goat brethren free, too. YouTube user Stephen Peterson was surprised to see an escaped goat and llama clop up to him in the parking lot of his office on Friday in Liver...
7 incredibly simple inventions that are changing the world
Mashable - 23 Mar 2015 13:04
The world's most pressing issues need smart solutions, but that doesn't necessarily mean high-tech. While various cutting-edge innovations, such as mind-controlled robotic body suits and microchip drug delivery, are impr...
3D-printed drill is smaller than a quarter, and it actually works!
Slash Gear - 23 Mar 2015 03:49
We've seen some amazing 3D-printed things these days. From sonic art installations to human noses ready for transplant, the 3D printers of today know no bounds. At first, it seemed the trend in 3D printing was to go bigg...
Boeing Patents 'Star Wars'-Style Force Field Technology
ABC News - 23 Mar 2015 16:05
Boeing's new patent may let the force be with you even in real life.
US Navy's latest diving suit saves helium, space and weight
Engadget - 23 Mar 2015 00:05
The US Navy has just unveiled a new diving suit prototype, and aside from being more efficient than older models, it also helps conserve helium. See, the agency's current suit uses Fly-Away Mixed Gas System (FMGS), which...
Deadspin Don't Coat Your Innards With Space Oil To Conserve Ketchup | Gawker Ted Cruz's Audience Tho
Gizmodo - 23 Mar 2015 23:29
Deadspin Don't Coat Your Innards With Space Oil To Conserve Ketchup | Gawker Ted Cruz's Audience Thought His Announcement Speech Was a Load of Crap | Jalopnik Russia Threatens To Nuke Denmark, Of All Places | Kotaku What...
Search for Alien Water Begins in Mojave Desert | Video
SPACE.com - 23 Mar 2015 16:45
NASA's Mojave Volatiles Prospector (MVP) is placing a suite of instruments to detect water on the Earthly desert surface. This testbed will fine tune designs for future probes to Mars, the Moon and other solar system bod...
New unmanned Dream Chaser spacecraft designed for ISS missons
Slash Gear - 23 Mar 2015 05:30
Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) created a new spacecraft to compete in NASA's latest space vehicle contract. SNC's newest creation is the Dream Chaser Cargo System. This futuristic looking spacecraft is designed to fly back an...
This Luxury Smartwatch Right Out Of 'Mission: Impossible' Keeps Your Data Safe
Tech Times - 23 Mar 2015 23:48
This luxury smartwatch concept design right out of 'Mission: Impossible' is designed to secure your sensitive personal information and files using the 'Bulgari Vault' app, 'a military-level virtual security vault.'
[EntertainmentTell] Fin: The Jeanine Pirro Jinx, Alex Gibney good and bad and Gaby Hoffmann's nudity clause
Technology Tell - 23 Mar 2015 22:15
[From EntertainmentTell] Alex Gibney vs. Apple and Scientology, Gaby Hoffmann: naked again on 'Girls' and Jeanine Pirro's "We need to kill them!" vs. Robert Durst's "I killed them all"
I Used a 56K Modem for a Week and It Was Hell on Earth
Gizmodo - 23 Mar 2015 20:06
In 1998, the year the first 56K modem was available for purchase, I was in the 8th grade.
Drone smuggling prison contraband gets stymied by stupidity
Engadget - 23 Mar 2015 16:09
Smuggling contraband into prison via drone is a bad idea, even if you toss morals out the window: the aircraft are noisy, flashy, and require a good amount of skill to fly in undetected. However, some British crooks didn...
Universe may be on the brink of collapse (on the cosmological timescale)
Phys.org - 23 Mar 2015 15:30
(Phys.org)--Physicists have proposed a mechanism for "cosmological collapse" that predicts that the universe will soon stop expanding and collapse in on itself, obliterating all matter as we know it. Their calculations s...
Astronaut and Cosmonaut to Launch on 1-Year Space Mission This Week
SPACE.com - 23 Mar 2015 13:50
An American astronaut and two cosmonauts are set to fly up to the International Space Station Friday (March 27), and two of those crewmembers won't be back on Earth for about a year on a mission that aims to help open th...
Hypnotic video visualizes half a million journeys on the London Underground
Mashable - 23 Mar 2015 13:47
LONDON — It might not seem it when you're armpit-deep into a stranger at 8 a.m. on a Monday morning, but the thousands of underground journeys Londoners make daily can be quite beautiful. 26-year-old Will Gallia used O...
Engineering a multipurpose, environmentally friendly dam
Phys.org - 23 Mar 2015 13:19
Researchers in the Philippines are using green engineering to develop a low-cost dam that aims to prevent flooding, generate electricity, and help end food and water shortages.
Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge give users control over some pre-installed apps
Slash Gear - 23 Mar 2015 13:10
One of the universally hated things that smartphone users have to deal with no matter the brand are pre-installed apps. In many cases this pre-installed app bloatware can't be removed and takes up space that most of us w...
12-year old girl tries to poison her mom for taking her iPhone away
Digital Trends - 23 Mar 2015 13:09
We'd be pretty annoyed if our smartphone was taken away, but we wouldn't go to the lengths this 12-year old went to after her mom confiscated her iPhone. She was so mad, she decided poisoning her was an appropriate respo...
Study claims lunar caverns could hold city-size colonies
Gizmag - 23 Mar 2015 02:38
We tend to think of future lunar colonies as being cramped futuristic domes or subsurface rabbit warrens, but what about underground caverns big enough to hang glide in? According to a study by a Purdue University team, ...
This Apple Watch app lets you monitor the Australian property market
Mashable - 23 Mar 2015 00:23
More than a month out from launch, the Apple Watch app game is starting to heat up in Australia. Popular real estate website, Domain, is joining the stable of apps launching at the same time as Apple's smartwatch, with a...
The HTC Re camera: An AC editor roundtable
Android Central - 23 Mar 2015 23:58
Here's what we think about HTC's RE camera now that we've used it a bit. When HTC announced the RE camera in the fall of 2014, plenty of people were curious. HTC is branching out and building "lifestyle" products (their ...
Eternally optimistic dog simply cannot catch food
Cult of Mac - 23 Mar 2015 23:58
Fritz the Golden Retriever may be adorable with his bandanna and soulful doggy eyes, but man he can’t catch a damn thing. Well, except maybe a french fry near the end of this hilarious video that looks like it was…