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Amazing Time-lapse Shows Recovered SpaceX Falcon 9 Moving To Land After Port Canaveral Arrival
Universe Today - 13 May 2016 03:20
The recovered SpaceX first stage booster that nailed a spectacular middle-of-the-night touchdown at sea last week sailed back to Port Canaveral, Florida, late Monday and was transferred by crane on Tuesday from the drone...
Rumble Low Frequency Sensor
The Gadget Flow - 13 May 2016 15:00
Keep your hearing healthy and in check with the Rumble Low Frequency Sensor. As our world is only getting louder with powerful headphones, blaring ambient noises such as traffic, and surround sound entertainment, low fre...
Apple invests $1B in Didi Chuxing, China's largest ride-hailing app
TechCrunch - 13 May 2016 06:01
Apple made the bombshell announcement today that it has invested $1 billion in China’s top ride hailing app. Didi Chuxing (formerly called Didi Kuaidi) is often described in U.S. media as Uber’s Chinese rival, but ...
Google's cool new natural language tool is called Parsey McParseface
PC World - 13 May 2016 02:07
Google has changed the way developers build applications that understand human language -- and in the finest tradition of the Internet, has named the result after Boaty McBoatface. The company announced a new SyntaxNet o...
MIT's tiny robot operates on your stomach from the inside
Engadget - 13 May 2016 05:05
Imagine this: you accidentally swallowed a battery (!), and to get it out, you need to take a pill that turns into a robot. Researchers from MIT, the University of Sheffield and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have dev...
Ex-Apple CEO Not Impressed With Apple Watch, Says It 'Doesn't Have Enough Utility'
Tech Times - 13 May 2016 04:19
Former Apple CEO John Sculley is not impressed with the functionalities of the Apple Watch. Sculley believes that Apple would do well to imbibe messaging technology into the wearable to increase its consumer appeal.
Silk Cocoons Can Store Blood Samples Sans Refrigeration
Tech Times - 13 May 2016 03:38
Using silk fibroin, researchers developed a method to store blood samples without refrigeration. The blood can still be analyzed after 84 days of storage at 45 degrees Celsius.
ASUS ZenFone Go TV has a built-in digital TV tuner
Slash Gear - 13 May 2016 01:58
ASUS has launched an interesting addition to its ZenFone lineup: the ZenFone Go TV smartphone with an integrated TV tuner. As expected, the tuner allows users to receive and watch local over-the-air TV channels wherever ...
The Himalayan Salt Lamp freshens your room like a breezy summer day
Coolest Gadgets - 13 May 2016 21:30
If you’ve ever been to a spa or bath house, you’ve likely come across a million different types of rocks that all tout different properties. Now whether or not you believe in that sort of thing, there are some scient...
Windows 10 phones gaining support for fingerprint readers this summer
PC World - 13 May 2016 15:39
Microsoft's improving the biometric login capabilities of Windows 10 Mobile in the coming months. The company plans to add fingerprint sensor capabilities to Windows Hello--the biometric login feature built into the oper...
People Understand How to Make Good Passwords, But Still Don't
Motherboard - 13 May 2016 15:31
Turns out people have a pretty good idea of what makes a good password, but they still make terrible ones.
Android N Will Not Come With 3D Touch When It Launches This Fall: Report
Tech Times - 13 May 2016 15:18
It was expected that a feature similar to Apple's 3D Touch is coming to Android N. However, a report claims that it will not be included in the initial launch of the next version of Google's mobile operating system.
Zuckerberg Weighs in on the Trending News Controversy
Wired - 13 May 2016 15:07
"I want to have a direct conversation about what Facebook stands for and how we can be sure our platform stays as open as possible." The post Zuckerberg Weighs in on the Trending News Controversy appeared first on WIRED.
Right to be forgotten online still divides the world
New Scientist - 13 May 2016 14:38
Two years after the right to be forgotten took root in Europe, the world is deeply split over the future of digital deletion, says Meg Leta Jones
German Intelligence Agency Warns of Russian Cybersabotage
ABC News - 13 May 2016 14:37
The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency has warned that Russia is being increasingly aggressive in its cyberwar activities
The SwimTrain exergame makes swim workouts fun again
Phys.org - 13 May 2016 13:41
To many who swim for exercise, workouts come down to the monotony of doing laps--swimming back and forth in a pool. Over and over. Unlike other exercisers, who can make their routines less of a chore by adding a social c...
Doom Collector's Edition in pictures: See what you get for £100
Pocket-lint - 13 May 2016 11:01
The long awaited reboot of Doom is out for PC, PS4 and Xbox One today and we've got our hands on the £100 Collector's Edition. Our review will be coming over the next few days because multiplayer servers have only just ...
Google crushes five bad bugs with patch run and $20k in bounties
The Register - 13 May 2016 04:58
Follows Flash, Microsoft fixes. Google has slung patches at vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux....
Hidden high-tech ocean pods will unleash Naval drones
BGR - 13 May 2016 04:12
What if the U.S. could seed secret pods deep in the oceans that suddenly burst out of the water unleashing devastating surprise attacks on the enemy? While this sounds like the stuff of science fiction the Defense Advanc...
This origami robot can retrieve the batteries you swallow - CNET
CNET - 13 May 2016 03:28Look what Google's doing to the outside of its massive data centers
Digital Trends - 13 May 2016 03:06
Keen to highlight the work of its huge data centers, as well as to prettify the rather dull structures, Google recently hired the services of four mural painters to jazz up their outside walls. And the results are stunni...
Image: New Antares rocket rolls out at NASA wallops
Phys.org - 13 May 2016 14:22
Orbital ATK's Antares first stage with the new engines is rolled from NASA Wallops Flight Facility's Horizontal Integration Facility to Virginia Space's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A on May 12, 2016, in preparat...