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Blister B30 - Magnetic Screw Holder
The Gadget Flow - 18 Jul 2016 14:53
The MICATON® magnetic screw holder is a simple, but innovative and ergonomic way to make sure your screws are always straight, and never risk stripping them, or damage to the surrounding area. MICATON® increases the gr...
Germany wants a 'black box' in any car with self-driving features
TechCrunch - 18 Jul 2016 16:44
Cars that drive themselves should be able to account for themselves, or so goes the thinking behind new legislation proposed by Germany’s transport ministry. The country is planning new laws that require cars equippe...
Hatch Eggs In Pokémon Go With a Turntable
Life Hacker - 18 Jul 2016 01:00
Certain aspects of Pokémon Go, like hatching eggs, require a great deal of walking, running, or biking. If moving is more difficult for you, however, a basic turntable can help even the playing field.
The Most Expensive Xbox One S Will Ship On August 2
Time - 18 Jul 2016 16:39
You'll have to wait until December for the cheaper models promised at E3
DARPA Awards $7.5M Grant For Development Of Implantable Biosensors
Tech Times - 18 Jul 2016 15:41
DARPA has awarded a grant worth $7.5 million to San Francisco-based Profusa for the development of tissue-integrated biosensors. The biosensors will be used by the military to monitor the health status of soldiers in rea...
Kickstarter Project Aims to 'Back Up Humanity' in Cosmic Cloud
SPACE.com - 18 Jul 2016 18:00
All of the books ever written, the genetic blueprint for human life and much of the other information that defines us as a species could soon be riding laser beams toward faraway exoplanets.
Throwing Shade on a Comet
Bad Astronomy - 18 Jul 2016 18:00
On Valentine's Day last year--Feb. 14, 2015--the Rosetta space probe passed an astonishing six kilometers above the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Mind you, the comet is only about four km end to end, so...
What lies beneath
ESA - 18 Jul 2016 17:15
ESA's Venus Express reveals details on Venus' surface by studying patterns of clouds in its thick atmosphere
SpaceX Lands Another Rocket
Scientific American - 18 Jul 2016 16:45
Company racks up its 5th rocket landing in a cargo launch to the Space Station --
SpaceX successfully launches crucial docking adapter to the International Space Station
The Verge - 18 Jul 2016 07:16
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida this morning, lofting the company's Dragon cargo capsule into orbit around Earth. Bound for the International Space Station, the Dragon will bri...
NASA's Rebooted K2 Mission Yields 104 New Exoplanets --"A Brilliant Second Life!"
The Daily Galaxy - 18 Jul 2016 22:40
NASA's Kepler confirms 100+ exoplanets during its K2 mission. It's the largest haul of confirmed planets obtained since the space observatory transitioned to a different mode of observing includes a planetary system comp...
Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During K2 Mission
SpaceRef - 18 Jul 2016 19:30
An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA's Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission....
Go hands-free virtually anywhere with the Anti-Gravity iPhone case
Pocket-lint - 18 Jul 2016 19:21
Skip the selfie sticks and unreliable, sticky phone mounts with the Anti-Gravity iPhone 6/6S case, offering an entirely new way to interact with your smartphone and capture life's most important moments. For a limited ti...
Kepler confirms more than 100 planets in single trove
Phys.org - 18 Jul 2016 19:00
An international team of astronomers have discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds. The researchers achieved this extraordinary discovery of exoplanets by combining NASA's K2 mission data with follow-up ob...
An Interesting Unnamed Large Crater On Mars
SpaceRef - 18 Jul 2016 16:46
This striking perspective view from ESA's Mars Express shows an unnamed but eye-catching impact crater on Mars....
You Can Now Swing a Lightsaber in Trials on Tatooine for HTC Vive
Time - 18 Jul 2016 15:49
Fend off squadrons of stormtroopers like a Jedi boss
As Robots Take Our Jobs, Guaranteed Income Might Ease the Pain
The Huffington Post - 18 Jul 2016 15:28
Let's start with a small test. When was the following text published -- in 1961, 1987 or last week? The number of jobs lost to more efficient machines is only part of the problem. What worries many job experts more is th...
Invisibility 'cloak' hides objects by making them seem flat
Engadget - 18 Jul 2016 06:54
Humanity is still some distance away from a real, honest-to-goodness invisibility cloak, but British scientists are that much closer to making it practical. They've developed a coating that uses graded refractive index n...
SoftBank is reportedly buying chip designer ARM for $31 billion
The Verge - 18 Jul 2016 06:07
SoftBank has agreed to acquire British chip designer ARM Holdings for £23.4 billion (about $31 billion), the Financial Times reports, making the deal the biggest ever purchase of a European technology company. The publi...
Cancer Immunotherapy Could Be Useful In HIV Treatment
Tech Times - 18 Jul 2016 05:43
A promising research shows possible, new treatment for HIV using gene immunotherapy. A group of potent antibodies used in cancer research could also help in the global fight against the HIV epidemic.
Satellite spots remnants of Ex-Tropical Cyclone Celia
e! Science News - 18 Jul 2016 20:34
Tropical Cyclone Celia weakened to a remnant low pressure area. NOAA's GOES-West satellite provided an infrared look at the clouds associated with the low.
Twitter lights up with 95th birthday wishes for John Glenn
Phys.org - 18 Jul 2016 19:37
John Glenn is being showered with birthday recognition.