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Cimran Virdi captures NCAA outdoor track and field pole vault title
MIT - 22 May 2015 18:55
MIT junior's third national title follows wins at the last two indoor national championships.
How's your swing? New multi-sport motion sensors focus on performance, not biometric data
Digital Trends - 22 May 2015 16:30
PIQ could be the new name for sports sensors. They've received their Series-A funding and have plans to release them to the public later this year. The firm focuses on sensors that provide users with performance metrics....
Apax Looks Set to Repurchase Airbus Mobile Satcom Unit
Space News - 22 May 2015 16:45
Apax Partners of France is negotiating to buy Airbus Defence and Space's mobile satellite communications services division, which Apax sold to Airbus in 2011. The post Apax Looks Set to Repurchase Airbus Mobile Satcom Un...
Live Off the Grid in This Solar-Powered 'Ecocapsule' Pod
NBC News - 22 May 2015 23:18
Ever feel like just leaving it all behind and moving into a tiny pod in the country? You might, after seeing the Ecocapsule.
Watch how the Navy plans to deploy its tiny Cicada drones
Engadget - 22 May 2015 15:41
Cicada, the Navy's palm-sized, sensor-laden drone, has no propeller or engine. In fact, it looks like a child's plaything. So, how will they get to their destination? Well, the Navy plans to drop them from either a ballo...
Gawker Josh Duggar Confirms Teen Molestation Reports | io9 Jon Snow Is the Hero of Coldplay's Game o
Gizmodo - 22 May 2015 15:35
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Gawker Josh Duggar Accused of Molesting Several Sisters as a Teen: Reports | io9 What's Wrong With T
Gizmodo - 22 May 2015 00:26
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Paint Splatter World Map - Beautifully Colorful Wall Sticker
The Gadget Flow - 22 May 2015 23:00
Want to imagine the world as a planet of vibrant colors? The Paint Splatter World Map will actually make you think so. It's an amazing set of wall stickers that are colorful and reusable. You can add them to your room an...
Hubble telescope observes freaky antics of 'Nasty 1' star
CNET - 22 May 2015 06:59This hydrogen-powered drone can theoretically fly for four hours straight
Digital Trends - 22 May 2015 03:55
Instead of using the standard lithium-ion cells that most drones rely on for power, the upcoming Hycopter drone uses hydrogen as its energy source. A working version is under development The post This hydrogen-powered dr...
Ryan Reynolds dressed up as Deadpool to visit a little boy with cancer
Mashable - 22 May 2015 23:55
While Deadpool may be something of an antihero, he did something undeniably heroic on Friday Ryan Reynolds donned his Deadpool attire and visited Tony Acevedo, a little boy battling Hodgkin's disease, for the Make-A-Wish...
ULA Execs Say RD-180 Engine Ban Blocks Path to Next-gen Rocket
Space News - 22 May 2015 20:47
The willingness of United Launch Alliance's parent companies to fund a next-generation rocket hinges on winning relief from the ban on the Russian-made engine that powers its current government workhorse, the Atlas 5. Th...
5 Secret Amazon Prime Perks You Don't Know About
Time - 22 May 2015 12:00
The subscription service is about much more than free shipping
Brilliant new 3D printer folds up like a briefcase, prints dozens of different materials
Digital Trends - 22 May 2015 03:40
The Focus is the first 3D printer specifically designed for easy transport. It's also compatible with an extremely wide range of materials and promises intuitive operation. For now, though, you can only snag one through ...
Guy hoverboards across a Canadian lake and into history
Engadget - 22 May 2015 23:50
No, this isn't some guerilla marketing campaign for Back to the Future's upcoming pseudo-anniversary. It's a world record-setting flight by Canadian inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru aboard a homebrew hoverboard. He recent...
4 leaked Microsoft apps reveal an exciting, intelligent future for productivity
PC World - 22 May 2015 20:16
Call them the "mash and slash" Office apps. A new wave of productivity apps from Microsoft appear to have either one of two goals: mash together two or more Office apps, or strip down an existing Office app to its bare p...
What Would It Take to Send People to Pluto?
SPACE.com - 22 May 2015 16:54
A manned mission to Pluto may be far out, but it's not impossible.
Escort website operator is going to prison for 13 months
Engadget - 22 May 2015 16:03
Eric Omuro, the operator of RedBook, has been sentenced to 13 months behind bars. RedBook or MyRedBook.com was a popular website that hosted ads for Bay Area sex workers, as well as forums where both clients and escorts ...
Honeycomb Cake Pan by Nordic Ware
The Gadget Flow - 22 May 2015 23:00
You must have come across a honeycomb sometime in your life. How about getting that design on your baking plate by using this Honeycomb Cake Pan by Nordic Ware. It's inspired from the golden honeycomb and the buzzing of ...
Google heads list of 16 companies trying to kill passwords
Engadget - 22 May 2015 15:04
People don't put enough thought into passwords because it's a pain, but that creates security problems for the whole internet. Google, Microsoft and others in the FIDO Alliance want to replace passwords with fingerprint ...
Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' video is even better with animated octopi and robots
Mashable - 22 May 2015 22:37
Two words: twerking burgers Students at the University of Newcastle in Australia were asked to animate 52 frames of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" music video using the rotoscope method, a technique that involves drawing ...
Star power: Troubled ITER nuclear fusion project looks for new path
Phys.org - 22 May 2015 09:50
In 1985, then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US president Ronald Reagan launched one of the unlikeliest ideas of the Cold War.