A mahogany wind tunnel for testing spacecraft aerodynamics is just too delightfully steampunk for real life. Or is it a real-life simulation of a 1980s-style overly-exuberant display of photographic superposition?
Saturday, November 7, 2015
World's Largest Fusion Reactor is About to Switch On
If “The Stellarator” sounds like an energy source of comic book legend to you, you’re not that far off. It’s the largest nuclear fusion reactor in the world, and it’s set to turn on later this month.
Share Your Best Parent Technology Fails With Us
Parents: They just don’t get technology, right? It’s probably one of the most common grievances among sons and daughters worldwide. From Mom asking you who this Reddit person is to Dad watching Netflix in silence because he muted the sound on his computer, we’ve all had a moment (in some of our cases, hundreds) where we wanted to laugh, cry and scream at our parents’ technological ineptitude.
Friday, November 6, 2015
How to Forage for Cocktails
I was traipsing around a conifer forest, looking for the perfect white fir. I wasn’t hunting for a Christmas tree. I had just been taught to see the wilderness as my own personal liquor cabinet, and I was searching for ingredients for my next cocktail.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Comcast Will Cap More People's Data Because of 'Fairness'
The Comcast data cap ‘trial’ is starting to look less like a trial and more like a handy way to extract money: starting December 1st, markets from Arkansas to Virginia will see data capped to 300GB, with $10 per 50GB over. Comcast says this is about “fairness and providing a more flexible policy to our customers”.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
It’s worth downloading the latest update to Google Maps for iOS: just like on Android, you now get u
It’s worth downloading the latest update to Google Maps for iOS: just like on Android, you now get up-to-the-minute traffic updates read out to you, so that you can avoid crashes that occur while you’re en route.
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