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Here's how to cut a cake perfectly, according to science
Jun 18, 1:22AM
The way we cut cakes is wrong. That old traditional style of slicing a wedge and leaving the rest? It ruins the cake and creates imperfect slices. How can we cut it better? How can we eat more delicious cake? Numberphile says the most scientific way to cut a cake is to slice an entire strip from the middle of the cake. That way it keeps the cake perfectly moist and delicious.
How to Grow Food in the Middle of a Desert Using Seawater
Jun 18, 12:20AM
As conventional sources of clean water dry up, we're looking ever farther, wider, and deeper. In a long feature on unusual sources of water, Nature leads us somewhere especially unexpected—into the middle of a desert. The Sahara Forest Project wants to prove we can green the desert, turning barren land into oases of cucumbers and melons. And the water? It'll come from the sea.
Relive June 17th, 1994: The Craziest Day in Modern Sports History
Jun 18, 12:00AM
Twenty years ago today you were glued to your TV watching OJ Simpson lead the LAPD on a low-speed chase in that now-infamous white Bronco. But that wasn't the only thing happening. 30 for 30: June 17, 1994 is the story of that and several unrelated sports developments that serendipitously happened on the same day.
The Story Behind the Foam That World Cup Refs Use To Stop Cheating
Jun 17, 11:40PM
If you've been enjoying any of the World Cup matches over the last several days, you've likely seen a new addition to the referee's arsenal: a spray-on foam. And if you're not a soccer expert, you've probably wondered where it came from.
The British Government Just Set a Dangerous Precedent for Online Spying
Jun 17, 11:20PM
Today, the British government revealed its justification for surveilling its citizens' every move on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks. UK citizens communicating using the aforementioned services are considered to be using "external communications," as the companies are not based in the UK. It's a distinction with staggering implications.
Adebisi Shank: Thunder
Jun 17, 11:00PM
I'm a writer, so obviously I love words. I love them on their own, and also in my music. But when I listen to Adebisi Shank, that all goes away. I never want to hear words again. Just a badass guitar riff over and over forever.
Watch This Diamond-Dusted Robot Saw Through Marble Like It's Hot Butter
Jun 17, 10:40PM
There are lots of fun ways to watch machines show-off: see them play massive Jenga games ; ooh and aah as they draw peens and portraits ; or, in the case of Carrara Robotics, check out a wire-saw saturated with diamond dust slice through a chunk of marble like it it's absolutely nothing.
This App Can Tell If a Soccer Ball Needs Air By Listening To It Bounce
Jun 17, 10:20PM
Nothing tops talent when it comes to how well a soccer player performs on the field, but believe it or not, how inflated (or under-inflated) a soccer ball is can affect how the ball moves when kicked. You can throw your antiquated pressure gauge away, though, because there's now an app called BallTune that can calculate a ball's internal pressure simply by listening to it bounce.
The Insane Plan to Build the World's Tallest Towers in a Lake in China
Jun 17, 10:00PM
These days, ambitious new skyscrapers are blanketed in a cloud of "green" buzzwords. Wind turbines! Hydrogen fuel cells! Insect farms! (Yes, insect farms.) Then there's Phoenix Towers, which has all of the above and more and looks like this. Let's call it what it is: a greenwashed dick-measuring contest.
A Guide to the FBI's Guide to Twitter Slang
Jun 17, 9:40PM
The FBI cares what you have to say on Twitter. It cares so much that it created an 83-page document about "Twitter Shorthand." The guide includes 2,800 entries that basically amount to every acronym known to man—along with quite a few that I didn't even know existed.
The More Walkable a City Is, the More Money It Makes
Jun 17, 9:20PM
A focus on dense, walkable development allows cities to pack more economic punch per square foot, according to a new study. In Washington DC, deemed the most walkable U.S. city, the most walkable areas in the city take up less than one percent of the total acreage, but represent almost half of the most wealth-generating square footage for the whole city.
This is the most disgusting video I have ever seen
Jun 17, 9:18PM
I really came close to barfing while watching this video of a mother toad having baby toads off its back. "Her offsprings have developed from egg to toad in her back, and now it's time to move on," says the narrator. No, narrator, now it's time to kill it with a machete, then douse it in gasoline, and set them all on fire.
Apple Is Happy to Take Your Money if Amazon Won't
Jun 17, 9:05PM
Fresh off of settling a lawsuit that accused it of collusion with publishers, Apple is ready to take the money you were planning to give to Amazon but can't. Since Amazon is in a fight with Hachette —the world's largest bookstore and one of the world's largest publishers respectively—and refuses to let customers pre-order any books from the publisher, Apple has stepped up to fill the void.
Start a Rebellion In Your Kitchen With an X-wing Knife Holder
Jun 17, 9:00PM
Would the Rebel Alliance have been able to defeat the Death Stars and the Empire flying a bunch of wooden blocks? No. Then why wouldn't you want to store your kitchen knives in this X-wing shaped knife block that is clearly a superior design to a block of wood?
Adventure Tested: Samsung Galaxy S5 Active Review
Jun 17, 8:44PM
With additional armor and unique, physical buttons, the waterproof Samsung Galaxy S5 Active targets outdoorsy users. Well, I'm outdoorsy, so I took it outside and beat it up. Does it work?
These Inductive Batteries Keep Your Power Tools Perpetually Charged
Jun 17, 8:40PM
It's almost impossible to think of a time when you had to wrangle a long cord while working with power tools. But as convenient as cordless tools are, they're useless if their batteries are dead. So this fall, Bosch will be introducing batteries with inductive charging that simply need to be placed on a base station for the power to flow.
How Nest Is Already Using All That Data From Its Army of Smoke Alarms
Jun 17, 8:20PM
The big news from Nest today is that Protect is back on the shelves . But lost in the shuffle is a more interesting tidbit from the company: Its first report on data culled from the alarms of hundreds of thousands of users. It's a glimpse at how Nest (and Google) can use their army of home-based smart hardware for the better—and at just how much they could know about you some day.
These Artificial Diamonds Are the Hardest Stones Ever Made
Jun 17, 8:11PM
They're already among the hardest materials on the planet, but modern industrial applications are quickly pushing both natural and man-made diamonds to their structural limits. However a new method of diamond making has resulted in a stone that's harder than any other ever seen.
That Time a Lying Factbot Accidentally Told The Truth
Jun 17, 7:50PM
The internet loves fun facts . But those images and facts we see floating around are often more fun than fact. Sometimes, these incorrect facts are distributed by people who simply haven't done their homework. Other times, they're the product of people who just want to throw a wrench in the machinery of social media.
Human Genome Tinkering Could Be Our Best Bet to Beat HIV
Jun 17, 7:40PM
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a crafty little bastard , constantly mutating to mask itself from our bodies' defenses but always entering cells through the same molecular door. The design of that cellular door is governed by our DNA, so why not change the lock by modding our genetic code?
Facebook Slingshot Hands On: A Less Useful, More Confusing Snapchat
Jun 17, 7:22PM
Facebook just unveiled its latest standalone app: Slingshot. It's a lot like Snapchat , except worse. I hate to say it, but even Poke was more fun than this .
A Look Inside the Amazon Lab Behind Tomorrow's 3D Smartphone
Jun 17, 7:00PM
Tomorrow, Amazon unveils its entry into the smartphone arena , a long-rumored device that supposedly uses eye-tracking tech to create the first 3D smartphone display . BloombergBusinessweek spoke to some of Amazon's mad scientists for the inside story on Lab126, the skunkworks tasked with making the 3D phone a reality.
Live Your Hogwarts Fantasies With Universal Studios' Interactive Wands
Jun 17, 6:40PM
If you've refused to acknowledge a reality without magic and wizards after the Harry Potter books and films ended, Universal Studios' Wizarding World of Harry Potter will now let you further live out your fantasies with new interactive wands that bring many parts of the attraction to life.
The Navy Wants to Mount an Anti-UAV Laser on a Hummer--A Hummer!
Jun 17, 6:20PM
The Office of Naval Research has just announced another breakthrough in its efforts to bring laser-based weapons to future battlefields. What once could only be accommodated by a tractor trailer now fits neatly in the back seat of a Humvee. It's only a matter of time until our armed forces march off to war with GI Joe-style laser rifles.
iOS 8 Will Make Drawing on Your Devices Way More Intuitive
Jun 17, 6:00PM
Perfecting your artistic technique using a stylus is about to get a whole lot more refined. With the introduction of iOS 8 , your screen will be sensitive to the relative width of whatever's running across its surface. That's great news for folks who prefer Paper and other drawing apps to, well, paper.
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