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Tech NewsHow Fallout from Nuke Tests Just Proved that Brain Cells Regenerate
Before the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963 barred all aboveground, subsea, and orbital nuclear weapons testing, the world’s nations were popping off nukes like champagne bottles on New Years. Surprisingly, that sprinkling of high-energy particles was actually quite beneficial, to science at least, as it’s just helped solve a longstanding dispute in human physiology—can … Continued
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Tech News
How to Get Practically Free Wi-Fi Practically Anywhere
Your Nexus 7 is Wi-Fi-only, but if Verizon thinks that you’re ponying up $10 a month just for the privilege of tethering it to your phone, they’ve got another thing coming. Fact is, wireless Internet access is increasingly like potable water or pornography; with so much available for free, there’s no reason to pay. You’ve … Continued
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Tech News
Tour D-Day Normandy’s Surreal Destruction in These Rare Color Photos
Yesterday marked the 69th anniversary of D-day, the largest amphibious invasion in history and the beginning of the end for the Axis Powers. After 160,000 US, British, and Canadian troops stormed the beaches of Normandy and secured a foothold for the Allies, war photographer Frank Scherschel surveyed the French town’s nearly complete destruction. Only a … Continued
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Tech NewsThe British Army’s New Tank-Bulldozer Hybrid Is Freakin’ Amazing
It’s the realization of every 7-year-old boy’s dream—a bulldozer on a tank chassis with a machine gun. Known as the Terrier, this ditch-digging combat engineer vehicle is as adaptable as its canine namesake. The Terrier is a remotely-operable armored combat engineer vehicle built for the British Army’s Royal Engineer corps by BAE Systems as a … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: How to Hide from Cameras
CV Dazzle is the surefire way to both fool closed circuit cameras and look like you got ready for a KISS concert while drunk. In the dark. Having never actually laid eyes on the band but only understood their stage presence from second-hand descriptions sussed from the incoherent ramblings of a blind hobo named Crusty … Continued
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Tech News
These Awesome Books Don’t Exist Yet—But Should
Forget the finding the next instant classic, great American novel, or literary tour de force—we need to get humanity’s greatest writers and intellectuals (sit down, Nic Cage) together to work putting stories behind these incredible faux book covers. Like, now. Tyler Adam Smith, a Masters of Branding student New York’s School of Visual Arts, began … Continued
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ScienceSpace & Spaceflight
Can You Identify These Cities Based on How They Look from Space?
Humanity’s grandest architectural triumph isn’t some single building or monument. It’s the cities that surround them, the forests of high-rises that house more than half the human population within their limits. Cities grow almost organically to suit the needs of their residents, resulting in a cityscape as unique as the people that lives there. Can … Continued
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Reviews
Crumpler Cut of Horror Bag: A Terrifying Amount of Storage Space
The days of carrying your cell phone in its own suitcase are over. As our gadgets continue to shrink (most of them, at least), the modern mobile workforce has little need for the oversized backpacks and messenger bags of the 2000’s. Especially not when you can pack an entire office worth of gear into Crumpler’s … Continued
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Tech NewsThe World’s Largest Cargo Plane Can Swallow a 737 Whole
Whether you need to get an airliner across a continent without flying it, piggyback a space shuttle to its launch site, or ship Snoop Dog’s oversized tour stage to Nigeria, you’re going to need the world’s biggest and strongest aircraft: the Antonov An-225. The Antonov An-225 Mriya is, quite simply, the largest airplane in the … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Single Classiest Way to Give Bacon as a Gift
Cuff links, multitools, and money clips are second only to vasectomies on the list of crap wants—some bacon to go along with the, um, cuff links, multitools, and money clips. The Oscar Mayer Original collection packages 18-20 slices of delicious porky goodness in a tasteful display box and includes one of three generic Father’s Day … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Most Terrifying Cherry Blossom to Ever Take Flight
By 1945 Allied forces were knocking on Japan’s front door. As the Empire’s military grew increasingly desperate, it began to focus on eliminating the Allies’ willingness to fight—by intentionally crashing manned aircraft in kamikaze attacks. And for pilots aboard one breed of these notorious flying coffin, the MXY-7 Navy Suicide Attacker Ohka, death wasn’t the … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Surreal Mall Is More Ghost Town Than Shopping Center
It’s easy to find the the New South China Mall in the bustling metropolis of Dongguan in Guangdong province, China. With 892,000 square metres of leasable space, it’s the largest shopping center in the world.* But you’ll have to look much more closely to see if its even open. The NSCM is the victim of … Continued
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Tech News
Can I Use the Same Charger for Multiple Devices?
The mobile computing revolution may have freed us from wall sockets, but only for as long as our batteries last. And with a charger for every gadget, there’s now a menagerie of wall warts and power cords clustered around your power outlets. Here’s how to clear out the electronic rat nest and recharge most of … Continued
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Tech NewsRobo Sally: The Best Bomb Disposal Bot Is Also the Most Human
Of the 25,000 Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) missions conducted by the US military in Iraq, only 30 have resulted in fatalities according to Army Col. K. Reinhard, commander of the joint EOD teams operating in the theater. That’s still 30 too many. And that’s why DARPA’s developed the most advanced EOD surrogate ever, a veritable … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke
Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell has had more than his fair share of sexy-time adventures as the the original manager and lead vocalist for 2 Live Crew. But that’s nothing compared to the shit he saw growing up. From Borscht Corp, the team that brought you Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse!, comes a masterful … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & Security
How to Hide Your House Keys in Plain Sight
Your welcome mat is not a secure key hiding place, neither is the frame over your door or the suspicious foam-rubber “rock” lurking suspiciously next to your stoop. You might as well leave your doors unlocked. Instead hide your spare where nobody will ever think to look—right out in the open. Assuming you’ve already undertaken … Continued
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ScienceSpace & Spaceflight
Is This a Real Picture or a Frame from a JJ Abrams Movie?
That’s not the USS Vengeance going supercritical, thankfully, just the massive 4.6 billion-year-old nuclear fusion reaction that is our Sun. A member of Expedition 36, the newly installed ISS crew, snapped this impressive shot as the station recently passed over Minnesota. Commander Hadfield might be back on Earth, but that doesn’t mean the magic of … Continued
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