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World's Tiniest Tweezers Grab Nanoparticles Using Nothing But Light
Mar 04, 8:40PM
When you're working with tiny nanoparticles, you need extremely delicate tools. Like, say, tweezers that can manipulate particles 1,000 times thinner than a human hair without physically touching them. That's exactly what researchers at the Institute of Photonic Sciences have come up with: optical nanotweezers that use light to move tiny particles in three dimensions. It's not sci-fi anymore.
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These Smartshoes Help the Blind Navigate City Streets
Mar 04, 8:20PM
Wearable technology is a pretty busy buzzword these days, but some of the coolest inventions take the idea well beyond some gadget that lets you read email on your wrist. Wearable technology can actually be life-changing for some people. Consider, for instance, what these shoes can do for the blind.
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Tour the Crazily Complex Skeleton of NYC's Newest Subway Line
Mar 04, 8:00PM
The Second Avenue Subway is more than 80 years in the making. Some said it would never be done. Yet, deep underneath Manhattan this spring, the final framework is being laid for a system that will carry millions of commuters through the city—and it looks downright primordial.
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Roku's New HDMI Streaming Stick: $50 and More Than 1,000 Channels
Mar 04, 7:52PM
This is Roku's brand new streaming stick. It's only $50 (half the price of the last version), and it's ready to pop into your TV right out of the box.
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Tokyo Is No Longer the Most Expensive City in the World
Mar 04, 7:40PM
Legendarily unaffordable Tokyo is no longer the priciest metropolis in the world—it has been supplanted by another, far more inaccessible city. Want to take a guess who it is? It's not New York. It's not San Francisco. The world's most expensive city is…
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Here's a First Look at Microsoft's Siri-Like Assistant Actually Running
Mar 04, 7:34PM
We've been hearing for sometime about Microsoft's forthcoming Cortana assistant, set to arrive in Windows Phone 8.1. Here's a video that appears to show the new Siri-clone in action. And it looks pretty damn good.
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41 Beautiful Black & White Photos
Mar 04, 7:20PM
Who needs color when good old black and photography is so simply beautiful? Here are the results from this week's Shooting Challenge .
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Unlocking the Mystery of the $10 Million California Time Capsule
Mar 04, 7:10PM
An anonymous Northern California couple out walking their dog recently discovered six rusty canisters buried on their property. The canisters were filled with 19th century gold coins, worth about $10 million today. Who's responsible for that much buried treasure? You might just be looking at him.
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What a 30,000-Year-Old Giant Zombie Virus Means For the Future
Mar 04, 7:00PM
A monster virus comes back from ancient times to wreak havoc on mankind. That may sound like a blurb from a science fiction novel, but as scientists have known for some time, it's not at all impossible. And thanks to the recent revival of a 30,000-year-old giant virus in Siberia, there's increasing concern that it might describe our future.
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Sony NEX-7, $20 Off Kindles, Timbuk2 Bags 25% Off, [Deals]
Mar 04, 6:45PM
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The Sony Alpha NEX-7 is a tiny camera with a huge sensor , and you can get a nice bundle today on eBay for a great price. $950 gets you the camera, kit lens, case, extra battery, and a UV filter. For comparison's sake, Amazon has never charged less than $998 for the camera and lens by themselves.
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Q&A with an Astrophysicist from Stanford's Particle Accelerator
Mar 04, 6:30PM
The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is one of those places that makes magic . Originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, this facility is where many modern discoveries about how matter works were made. Six researchers have earned Nobel prizes for their work at SLAC. It's also where the first website in North America was built.
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What the Ukrainian Crisis Means for Astronauts in Space
Mar 04, 6:20PM
Ever since NASA retired its space shuttle program in 2011, the only way to get up to the International Space Station is on a Russian Soyuz. That's why the six humans currently orbiting in space—including two Americans and three Russians—might be paying attention to what's happening on earth two hundred miles below. As tensions run high between the U.S. and Russia over the situation in Ukraine, geopolitics may find its way into space again.
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Rise of the Intestinal Selfie
Mar 04, 6:00PM
Londoners! The luckiest amongst you will be treated to a bizarre new public event next week, hosted by culinary wunderkinder Bompas & Parr. On Friday, March 14th, before a live, paying audience, "food writer, pop-up chef and Sunday Times columnist Gizzi Erskine" will "swallow a medical grade pill-cam which will broadcast its footage live to video screens." Everyone there in attendance will thus watch, over the course of roughly two hours, as Erskine's digestive system is filmed from within, live on screens for all to see.
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I Would Have Killed to Have This Open-Source Laser Tag Game as a Kid
Mar 04, 5:40PM
Even when it's just team deathmatch in a dark, smelly room inside the local roller rink, laser tag is awesome. So imagine how cool it would be if you could liberate it, and play an open-source version wherever you want with game-types you made up. It'd be like a video game in real life! Or paintball without the pain!
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AirPnP Connects Mardi Gras Partiers With Places to Pee
Mar 04, 5:20PM
Today is Mardi Gras, and like any booze-fueled street celebration, that means tons of full-bladdered revelers seeking out a place to relieve themselves. Thankfully, technology's here to save New Orleans from becoming a literal Urinetown. Meet AirPnP, the web app that lets you do your business in the privacy of a stranger's home.
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Sorry, It's Not Tech Money Ruining San Francisco
Mar 04, 5:00PM
They're being targeted as harbingers of evil as their buses chug through otherwise inaccessible, gentrified neighborhoods. Now San Francisco's tech workers are fighting back with a networking event called the Tech Workers Against Displacement Happy Hour, that, in addition to sounding like a whole lot of fun, hopes to gather attendees who are "sick of being blamed for SF's housing crisis."
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The Quantum D-Wave 2 Is 3,600 Times Faster than a Super Computer
Mar 04, 4:40PM
Quantum computing is being hailed as the future of data processing, with promises of performing calculations thousands of times faster than modern supercomputers while consuming magnitudes less electricity. And in the span of just two years the only commercially available quantum computer, the D-Wave One , has already doubled its computational power. Kiss your law goodbye, Mr. Moore.
Quantum computing differs from classical computing at its most fundamental level . While traditional computers rely on the alternate bit states of 1 and 0 to store data, quantum computers exploit the fuzzy effects of quantum mechanics, allowing its "qubits" to exist as a 1, 0, or both simultaneously, a.k.a "superposition." So while a traditional computer will sequentially explore the potential solutions to a mathematical optimization problem, the quantum system looks at every potential solution simultaneously, known as quantum annealing, and returns answers—not just the single "best" but nearly 10,000 close alternatives as well—in roughly a second. What's more, unlike traditional computers which rely on logic gates to manipulate bits, the D-Wave system uses an adiabatic, which reads out the ground state of its qubits to find a solution.
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China's Designating Graffiti-Friendly Sections of the Great Wall
Mar 04, 4:02PM
What is it about going to a famous place that makes you feel like you need to "leave your mark by defiling the spot with your name?" It's a particular problem, as you might imagine, at the Great Wall of China. China's solution? Let people do it—in a few specific spots.
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Cone: A Speaker That Knows What You Want to Hear Before You Do
Mar 04, 4:00PM
Music is personal. It's tied to our identities, our emotions, even our friends. So the idea that a complex algorithm could make us smarter about music is counter-intuitive. The creators of Cone, a wireless speaker that learns what you like and builds on it, think they've cracked the code.
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E-Ink Kindles, Including the Paperwhite, Are $20 Off Today
Mar 04, 3:45PM
If you or someone you know still doesn't own a Kindle, today's a great day to fix that. Amazon has taken $20 off both of their E-ink models, dropping them firmly into impulse buy territory.
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Silicone Straps Serve as Beverage Seatbelts On This Serving Tray
Mar 04, 3:33PM
If you spent any time working as a server in a restaurant or bar, you're probably already a master at carrying trays full of food. The rest of us, however, need all the help we can get. And this clever serving tray from Finell helps eliminate spills using a series of stretchy silicone bands that help to hold everything secure when it's in motion.
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This Futuristic Truck Was Actually Designed By Walmart
Mar 04, 3:00PM
With 7,000 tractor trailers currently in its fleet, it makes sense that Walmart would have a vested interest in designing more efficient delivery vehicles. The company's new ultra-aerodynamic Walmart Advanced Vehicle Experience—or WAVE—concept is lighter and more fuel efficient than other trucks on the market, and can run on almost any fuel short of nuclear power.
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Good news, Android-loving Chromecast users: the newest beta of Chrome for Android adds casting abili
Mar 04, 2:59PM
Good news, Android-loving Chromecast users: the newest beta of Chrome for Android adds casting ability for YouTube videos and thus, basically any standard HTML5 video. It's a beta, so it might be a little clunky, but hey, now your casting abilities aren't limited to your computer. [AndroidPolice]
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Bitcoin Bank Flexcoin Shuts Down After $620,000 Heist
Mar 04, 2:38PM
Flexcoin, famous for making bitcoin banking as easy as regular banking, is no more. The company shut its doors on Tuesday morning after hackers stole 896 bitcoins (nearly $620,000) from its vault on Sunday. And the most unsettling thing? That wasn't even the only bitcoin heist last weekend.
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What It's Like To Use Apple's CarPlay Hands-Free System
Mar 04, 2:30PM
While you might have expected Apple's CarPlay iOS system to appear in a Tesla, the winner of this race is Volvo, who will be using Apple's software for hands-free connectivity in all their future models. Here's the first hands on with new system straight from the Geneva Motor Show floor.
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