Solar Impulse 2 completes its flight across the Pacific
After
months of delays and days of flying, Solar Impulse 2 has finished
crossing the Pacific. The sunlight-powered aircraft arrived in San
Francisco Bay on the night of April 23rd, with an expected touchdown at
Moffett Field (as of this writing) aro... Read More ...
NASA pours $67 million into solar electric spacecraft engines
NASA
is big on solar electric propulsion (the Dawn spacecraft uses it, for
instance) for a good reason: while the engines aren't powerful, they
supply thrust for a very long time before giving up the ghost. And it
now looks like the agency is ready t... Read More ...
Intel execs received threats over the company's diversity push
Intel's
bid to promote company diversity is running into opposition... and some
of it is particularly vicious. CEO Brian Krzanich told guests at a
technology conference that it has received some hostility, including a
"bit of a backlash" from within... Read More ...
Stanford wind tunnel for birds could lead to more stable drones
Birds
can navigate both urban and real jungles with ease even when they're
facing moderately turbulent winds. If they could speak, we'd have
already asked their secret. But since they can't, the Stanford School of
Engineering built one of the most ad... Read More ...
Congress asks the NSA how often it spies on Americans
Thanks
in part to leaks, it's no secret that the National Security Agency's
foreign intelligence gathering also covers some Americans. But just
how many Americans are under watch, and how many are simply innocents
caught in the crossfire? Congress... Read More ...
Sales skyrocketed after 'Rust' added female character models
When
Rust creator Garry Newman introduced female character models to the
open world survival game, he said the idea was rooted in a social
experiment: He wanted to see if lady characters would be attacked more
or less because players might perceive t... Read More ...
Facebook was the victim of a backdoor hack
Even
a tech giant like Facebook isn't immune to significant security
breaches. Devcore's Orange Tsai recently discovered that someone had
installed a backdoor on one of Facebook's corporate servers (that is,
not the social network itself) in a bid t... Read More ...
Oree's real ink-and-paper stylus is not for starving artists
Known
for chic, artisanal digital products like a $190 walnut keyboard,
French company Orée is going after the creative set with the Stylograph.
Fabricated from pure copper, the ink stylus lets you transcribe your
scribblings from paper over t... Read More ...
Roku's $50 Streaming Stick makes 1080p set-top boxes obsolete
Roku
has seemingly done the impossible with its latest Streaming Stick. It's
smaller than the previous 2014-era version, it packs in a faster
quad-core CPU and it's still just $50. The speed improvements, in
particular, are a welcome change because t... Read More ...
Six amazing underwater buildings
By Cat DiStasioWhile architecture on land strives ever higher, designers in wetter parts of the world are finding new ways to build beneath the waves. Underwater buildings aren't exactly common -- partly thanks to their enormous expense -- but ther...
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Recommended Reading: Is Instagram ruining our vacations?
Instagram Is Ruining Vacation
Mary Pilon,
Backchannel
Instagram users, myself included, share many daily activities with the social channel's filter-driven photography and videos. That habit is only amplified when we go on vacation, nabbing photos...
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ICYMI: Targeting Zika with tech, flexi-cam and more
Today on In Case You Missed It: Brazil is taking on the Zika virus by creating a smart billboard that attracts, then kills mosquitoes. Columbia University researchers built a camera prototype that takes pictures at a curve. And a Chinese company ha...
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Try a free strategy game from the makers of 'Minecraft'
Developer
Mojang might be best known for wildly popular and influential
Minecraft, but it's no one-trick pony. Which brings us to Crown
& Council, the studio's latest that, from the sounds of it, is a
fast-paced strategy game in the vein of Risk... Read More ...
CERN opens access to 300TB of Large Hadron Collider data
CERN
will keep you researchers, students and dataphiles busy this weekend.
The institute has released 300 terabytes of Large Hadron Collider data
collected by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector back in 2011. You
know how scientists use the coll... Read More ...
The Public Access Weekly: The sky was all purple
While I usually start off these round-up posts with some comments on what's happened the previous week, or talking about days of note like geek holidays, today there is none of that. Not because I'm too depressed about Prince's passing (although li...
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Apple mandates that new Watch apps 'must' work without an iPhone
Apple's
laying the law down: Watch apps must operate without an iPhone nearby.
In a blog post, the company mandates that anything submitted for App
Store approval from this June 1st forward has to be a native app running
watchOS 2. This should be a b... Read More ...
Feds scrap Apple lawsuit in New York
The
Department of Justice will no longer go after Apple in court in an
effort to compel the company to unlock an iPhone related to a Brooklyn
drug case. According to the court document US Attorney Robert Capers
submitted (and obtained by Apple Inside... Read More ...
Satellite TV is helping Iranians bypass internet censorship
People
who live in countries with a strict nationwide internet filter always
come up with ways to get around it. In Iran, according to Wired, people
are using satellite TV and a free anti-censorship system called Toosheh.
While Iranians do use VPN to... Read More ...
'Tekken X Street Fighter' is on hold for now
There's
a chance Tekken X Street Fighter will never see the light of day. Or it
could, but not anytime soon. In a recent interview with GameSpot,
Tekken's game director Katsuhiro Harada revealed that development for
the highly anticipated crossover i... Read More ...
Log in with your skull via bone conduction biometrics
Researchers
looking for a better way to secure their face computers have come up
with a novel solution for hands-free, head-mounted password entry. A
device could potentially identify its wearer by emitting an ultrasonic
hum through their skull and l... Read More ...
The government is shaming people for texting and driving
It's
a bad idea to text and drive. Beyond just being dangerous, it's now
illegal in most US states and in several countries around the world.
Yet, despite the many ad campaigns telling them it's wrong, people still
do it. In fact, some of them actual... Read More ...
Bank of America now supports Android's fingerprint scanner
Sure,
smartphone fingerprint scanners like Apple's Touch ID and Google's
Nexus Imprint help keep your phone more secure. But they also make it
easier to log into various apps or make purchases without having to type
an unwieldy password into your pho... Read More ...
Step inside the artistic algorithms of 'No Man's Sky'
Even
if you haven't played it yet, one thing is clear about No Man's Sky:
It's stunning. The entire game hinges on the idea of procedural
generation on a massive scale, meaning when artists at Hello Games
create a patch of grass or a fluffy animal ta... Read More ...
Some of the greenest gadgets for Earth Day
Most
of us know how we can be friendlier to the environment: We can drive
less, recycle more and bring tote bags to the grocery store. But what
most people don't realize is that we can make green choices when it
comes to consumer electronics too. Tha... Read More ...
How '60 Minutes' played 'Telephone' with public-hacking hysteria
On
Sunday, 60 Minutes took a year-old segment on phone hacking it shot and
aired in Australia, fluffed it up with other old hacks from last year's
Def Con and repackaged it for an American audience.Almost no one noticed those particular details.
B...
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