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Safer Kitchen Knives Inspired By the Tools in Your Workshop
Apr 16, 11:00PM
If you think back to the last time you cut yourself using something sharp, it was probably in the kitchen, not your workshop. Given how much more time we all spend in the kitchen, it makes sense that the risk of injury would be higher. So it also makes sense that someone would design a set of kitchen knives that are safer, easier, and more comfortable to use.
Google Street View Accidentally Made an Algorithm That Cracks CAPTCHAs
Apr 16, 10:40PM
House numbers on Google Street View can turn up as blobby, blurry things, so its engineers built a pretty crazy neural network to decipher them. Except this algorithm also turns out to be very very good at deciphering other blobby, blurry texts—like CAPTCHAs, which it cracks with 99 percent accuracy. Take that, human.
France Lost Thousands of Vials Containing the SARS Virus
Apr 16, 10:20PM
Somebody's definitely getting fired, after over 2,300 vials containing fragments of the deadly SARS virus went missing from the Pasteur Institute in France earlier this week. Not one or two vials, mind you. Thousands of them.
The Simpsons Will Air an Entire Episode in Lego
Apr 16, 10:17PM
It's always beautiful when two awesome things collide. It's especially beautiful when those two things are The Simpsons and Lego. And that's exactly what we're going to see on May 4, when Fox will air an episode of The Simpsons in Lego form—or at least CGI Lego form.
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Apr 16, 10:00PM
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Build Your Own Society By Auditioning for the New Reality Show Utopia
Apr 16, 10:00PM
Has civilization got you down? Ever wanted to leave this culture behind and start over? Now you can. Producers have issued a casting call for Utopia, a new reality show that is pretty much exactly what you think it is—15 strangers, picked to live on a farm and build their own society from scratch.
According to Recode, Yahoo is trying to persuade Apple to drop Google and make Yahoo its default iOS
Apr 16, 9:57PM
According to Recode, Yahoo is trying to persuade Apple to drop Google and make Yahoo its default iOS search engine. Because that would mean more money for Yahoo and less money for Google. The free market works!
Electric Lights Are Too Expensive—Why Not Brighten The Moon?
Apr 16, 9:40PM
Think of all the power it takes to light up empty parking lots at night. Think of how annoying it can be when the sun goes down, yet you didn't finish all your work for the day. Think of how great it would be if we could just extend daytime, reduce the cost of lighting up all those empty streets and garages, and keep our cities as excessively illuminated as they already are today. We should just brighten the moon.
How San Francisco Sacrificed a Valley in Yosemite for Water and Power
Apr 16, 9:20PM
The electricity that powers San Francisco's streetlights, schools, and international airport begins as a torrent of water inside—of all places—the supposed natural sanctuary that is Yosemite National Park. A century ago, a pristine valley was sacrificed so that San Francisco could continue to exist.
A remote-controlled machine gun installed on a wall near Bethlehem, just near the border of Palestin
Apr 16, 9:15PM
A remote-controlled machine gun installed on a wall near Bethlehem, just near the border of Palestine and Jerusalem. Spotted by several Palestinian news outlets, the weapon—which is equipped with cameras and is located very close to a mosque—was reportedly installed by occupying Israeli forces on Sunday.
This Desk Keeps Your Cords In Order and Has a Built-In Whiteboard
Apr 16, 9:00PM
Man it feels good to sit down at a desk where everything is in order—or so I've heard. Mine is always a disaster, what with the cords and cables and scattered reminder notes I've scrawled on bits of paper that will undoubtedly get lost in the shuffle. But this lovely specimen from Artifox looks like it would seriously help whip things into shape.
Broadacre City: Frank Lloyd Wright's Unbuilt Suburban Utopia
Apr 16, 9:00PM
Frank Lloyd Wright was arrogant, stubborn, and brilliant. But above all, he was a shrewd businessman who understood the importance of spectacle in keeping his business afloat. Wright put on many shows over the course of his lifetime, but arguably no performance was greater than his utopian plan to create the perfect community: Broadacre City.
Here's a Map of the 47 Percent of America Where No One Lives
Apr 16, 8:40PM
As anyone who's driven through Middle America knows, it feels like there's very few places in the U.S. that don't have at least a few inhabitants. But as a map by cartographer Nik Freeman proves, there are still some amber waves of grain and fruited plains that remain. Emphasis on some.
Shooting Challenge: Photo Mosaics
Apr 16, 8:30PM
You've all seen the effect. There's a picture, but inside that picture lives a thousand little pictures that create the pigment. The effect is called a photo mosaic. And it's easier to make than you think.
Tiny Magnetic Robots Might One Day Work On Equally Tiny Assembly Lines
Apr 16, 8:20PM
We've successfully engineered giant robot arms for building cars on an assembly line. But smaller mass-produced items—like electronics—still mostly rely on the nimble hands and fingers of a human. Building and controlling robots on a very small scale is still very difficult, but a company called SRI International may have found a clever solution using magnets.
What Is Tizen?
Apr 16, 8:10PM
This year, Samsung will sell (at least) two phones and a watch that don't run Android. Instead, they'll run something called Tizen. That's a major departure for such an important player in the smartphone game. But what is Tizen? And will you actually want to use it?
Walmart Is Downsizing Its Superstores and Putting Apartments on Top
Apr 16, 8:00PM
Walmart, the leviathan of the U.S. retail economy, has had a tough year. So tough that the company's new CEO is prescribing a surprising strategy to slow decaying sales: Build smaller stores. And, in at least one case, put housing on top of them.
Canadian Teen Is the First Arrested for Stealing Data With Heartbleed
Apr 16, 7:53PM
In what's sure to be the first of many to come, a 19-year-old Canadian man was arrested for exploiting the Heartbleed bug to lift taxpayer data from a government website, making this the first official Heartbleed-related arrest.
4 Charts That Prove More Americans Are Biking and Walking
Apr 16, 7:40PM
Americans are not only walking and biking to work, they're gaining more support from local government and advocacy groups. And they're also making cities safer: The higher the number of people walking to work, the lower the pedestrian fatality rate, according to a new report out today.
How to Turn Off Facebook's Auto-Playing Video Ads
Apr 16, 7:30PM
Facebook recently introduced auto-playing video ads on desktop and mobile, but thankfully there's now a switch to opt out. Here's what you have to do.
Bill Gates' New Patent Would Keep Glassholes From Spying on Your Screens
Apr 16, 7:30PM
Google's big Glass free-for-all has come and gone, but whether or not anyone actually bought the damn thing , cameras are popping up all over the place, and people are starting to get (perhaps rightfully) paranoid. Fortunately there could be tech in the future to save your screens from prying camera eyes. And Bill Gates has the patent.
What could Apple possibly want with a dam in Oregon?
Apr 16, 7:20PM
What could Apple possibly want with a dam in Oregon? Is raising condors with hand puppets going just a bit too far? Why should we all start eating prickly pears? Hey, it's time for this week's Landscape Reads.
Relive All of Your Favorite Retro Computer Reboots on One Website
Apr 16, 7:00PM
Remember a time when every single software update you made to your computer's OS or applications required a complete reboot of the system? Computers are still far from perfect, but over at The Restart Page you can relive those annoying and constant operating system restarts of yesteryear, and appreciate how far things have come.
The Future of Interstellar Communication Goes "Pew, Pew, Pew"
Apr 16, 6:40PM
It's no subspace transceiver but this prototype communicator bound for the ISS could revolutionize how we share data over the vast expanses of solar space. It will deliver Gigabit speeds through deep space.
Google Camera Is a Standalone Photography App for Android
Apr 16, 6:23PM
Google is now offering a standalone camera app for Android that's very similar to the standard app that ships with the stock version of Android. TouchWiz users rejoice.
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