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An Iceberg Rises Above The Frozen Water Of Greenland's North Star Bay
Gizmodo - 3 May 2015 01:30
As a support scientist for NASA's Operation IceBridge mission, Jeremy Harbeck spends most of his time processing data at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. But it was on a recent visit to Greenland that he s...
10 houseboats that will make you want to give up land forever
Digital Trends - 3 May 2015 18:15
From canals in Amsterdam to ports in Portland, here are ten of our favorite houseboats, which are equally as stunning as they are downright extravagant. They might just want to make you give up your landlubbing ways. The...
The Best Way to Ruin the New Force Awakens Trailer? Jar Jar Binks.
Gizmodo - 3 May 2015 00:00
You know what made the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer especially great? A distinct lack of Jar Jar Binks. But some people, it seems, just want to watch the world burn.
1975 Square Duffel by Tumi
The Gadget Flow - 3 May 2015 23:00
TUMI is renowned for producing excellent goods since 1975 and this 1975 Square Duffel by Tumi comes as another great addition from the makers. It is an ideal duffel you can carry for your weekend or overnight trips which...
NASA's Ten Engine Electric Drone Goes From Chopper to Airplane and Back
Gizmodo - 3 May 2015 18:09
Space missions get all the hype, but NASA Aeronautics is doing some pretty rad stuff, too. Their ten engine, unmanned electric plane, for instance, has just successfully transitioned from hover mode to wing-borne flight ...
Living with the new MacBook Retina
Slash Gear - 3 May 2015 21:51
There's an unusual degree of forthrightness - sometimes bordering on vitriol - in how outspoken people are about the new MacBook Retina. It's something you see occasionally with high-profile, edge-pushing devices: not ju...
Small Businesses Are Jumping on the Robot Bandwagon
NBC News - 3 May 2015 02:28Minecraft Player Constructs a Camera That Correctly Captures Perspective
PetaPixel - 3 May 2015 16:33
If you’re a fan of the game Minecraft, then you may appreciate what SethBling has done. The Seattle-based player/inventor has created a working in-game camera using command blocks. His explanation is that the system us...
Here's How Much Earth Gets Blasted Away to Extract a Hunk of Diamond
Gizmodo - 3 May 2015 21:00
If you were ever wondering how much land mass had to be moved to produce that diamond engagement ring, this series of photos should help put things in perspective.
This Is What It Might Be Like to Fly Through a Giant Space Habitat
Gizmodo - 3 May 2015 01:57
Want to live in a space city? You can't move there next week, but artist Micah Ganske has designed an incredible VR experience where you drive a small spacecraft through an O'Neill cylinder, a massive tube-shaped space h...
The New York Times Will Hit One Million Digital Subscribers Soon. But Does It Matter?
Re/code - 3 May 2015 15:00
Even 1 million paying readers will not be enough to make up for losses in print.
Cover your Apple Watch with real gold for a few hundred bucks
Slash Gear - 3 May 2015 20:00
Just over week ago we told you the story of how one YouTuber saved himself a whole bunch of moolah by making his Apple Watch Sport gold with only some creativity and a can of spray paint. But what to do if you actually w...
Scientists look at flower cells in 3D without wrecking them
Engadget - 3 May 2015 08:55
Plants are delicate things, which makes them a pain to study under an electron microscope -- you'll probably damage the very cells you're trying to look at. You'll get a much better look if the University of Florida's ne...
KitchenAid Magnetic Drive Torrent Blender
The Gadget Flow - 3 May 2015 15:00
Prepping your favorite juices was never this easy. The KitchenAid Magnetic Drive Torrent Blender features an instant release carafe which makes blending super convenient for all. The design is a special one considered pr...
Unmanned cargo chopper shows off its search-and-rescue talents
Engadget - 3 May 2015 05:06
For three years between 2011 and 2014, the unmanned Kamen K-Max 1200 helicopter delivered more than 4.5 million tons of supplies to the most dangerous and far-flung US Forward Operating Bases throughout Afghanistan. It f...
SurveyMonkey CEO, husband of Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, dies suddenly
CNET - 3 May 2015 00:14How to calibrate Apple Watch to improve accuracy of calorie, distance, & other fitness data
9 to 5 Mac - 3 May 2015 23:12Fix an "Unapproved Caller" SecurityAgent Message in Mac OS X
OS X Daily - 3 May 2015 21:06
Rarely, Mac users may encounter a random error message which appears somewhat disconcerting, with an OS X pop-up message saying “Unapproved caller. SecurityAgent may only be invoked by Apple software.” This message c...
Australia's Domino's Plans Uber-Inspired Pizza Delivery Driver Tracker
Wall Street Journal - 3 May 2015 16:05
Domino's Pizza Enterprises Ltd., which holds the master-franchise rights to the Domino's brand in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, France and the Netherlands, says it's the first in the world to let customers track their p...
What’s the best video player SDK for playing HLS streams in an Android app?
Mashable - 3 May 2015 05:00
In this video, engineer Eric Brynsvold helps developers determine which video player SDK they need to best play HLS streams in their Android app. The Android device landscape is a large, disparate and continuously growin...
YouTube's first North American FanFest attracts thousands, but wants to stay 'grassroots'
Mashable - 3 May 2015 04:25
TORONTO — In a white-and-red room replete with YouTube branding, jars of chewy berry candy and T-shirt-clad publicists, a group of camera-ready millennials flash their pearly whites as they pose for a selfie. While the...
Sony makes it easier to put new operating systems on its phones
Engadget - 3 May 2015 23:58
Sony's Android smartphones haven't been tinkerer-friendly to date -- since you couldn't boot from a recovery partition, you couldn't install CyanogenMod and other unofficial operating systems without jumping through hoop...