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Tech NewsThe Simplest Explanation of What the World Wide Web Is That You’ll See
We all know someone who still manages to confuse the Internet and the World Wide Web, and no amount of frustrated, rambling description seems to help them understand the difference. Now, you can just show them this video. This explainer by TED-Ed describes the World Wide Web as a city, where skyscrapers are web servers, … Continued
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Tech NewsMotorola Adds LTE to the Moto G and Launches Budget Moto E
The Moto G is Motorola’s best-selling smartphone ever, and it just got a little bit better: there’s now an LTE version available, as well as budget version called the Moto E. The original Moto G was, and still is, a wonderful phone the money—we said that it was a “solid smartphone to help you improve … Continued
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Tech NewsHow the FCC Makes Its Rules
It’s been hard to go a day without hearing news about the Chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, and his highly contested plan for the future of network neutrality. Google and Netflix signed a letter with nearly 150 other Internet companies calling on the FCC to reconsider its plan, which would purportedly bless the creation … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidNASA finds strange dark square hole in the Sun
The NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory has found a strange coronal hole in the Sun, “almost square in its shape.” I don’t know about you, but this square phenomenon freaks me out a bit. It looks like the Sun is some kind of fake LED disco ball and one panel is failing. Here’s the video. From … Continued
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Why Air Pollution Has Always Been a Problem in L.A. (And Always Will Be)
Air pollution has plagued Southern California for as long as people have been writing about the region. A blanket of haze hung over the land that would become Los Angeles on October 8, 1542, when Spanish sailors entered San Pedro (or perhaps Santa Monica) Bay and made the first written observations of the Southland. This … Continued
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Archaeologists may have found the wreck of Columbus’ Santa Maria
After 500 years, archaeologists believe that they have found the wreck of the Santa Maria— Christopher Columbus’ flagship—at the bottom of the sea off the north coast of Haiti. The leader of the expedition, Barry Clifford, told The Independent that all the evidence “strong suggests that this wreck is Columbus’ famous flagship, the Santa Maria.” … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidNoah genesis sequence mixes science and religion into a pretty tale
Everyone has their own beliefs so I don’t care if you side with science or put yourself to faith or are too lazy to think about it, that doesn’t really change anything here. Just enjoy the beautiful sequence in this scene from the movie Noah about the creation of Earth. It tells the story of … Continued
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io9This Robotic Catching Arm Can React In Less Than 500ths Of A Second
Developed by EPFL researchers, this robot is capable of reacting on the fly and grasping objects with complex shapes and trajectories. Incredibly, it’s equipped with a learning algorithm that allows it to be taught by humans. To make it work, EPFL researchers first taught the robot how to predict the trajectory of a moving object. … Continued
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Once Upon A Time‘s Season Finale Goes Completely Insane
Once Upon A Time ended its massive season with a massive, super inappropriate, two-hour season finale. Super fun fairy tale executions ahead! How about that scene where they burned Snow White at the stake? Seriously, what the hell is wrong with this show? Last night, Once Upon A Time ended this season by chucking just … Continued
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Hubble is the single most useful science instrument ever created
No other single scientific device has gathered more data, confirmed more theories, made more discoveries, and given us more pure visual joy and awe than the Hubble Space Telescope—the single most useful science instrument ever created. NASA has just published some updated statistics to prove it. Hubble has made more the 1 million observations since … Continued
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io9TelevisionEverything You Always Wanted To Know About The Making Of Blake’s 7
The British space opera TV series Blake’s 7 has never gotten the props it deserves, in part due to dodgy special effects. But the show’s influence on genre television and storytelling in general cannot be understimated. And now, you can watch a massive documentary on its genesis. Kevin Jon Davies created a four-part documentary on … Continued
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Holy crap, a house just exploded live on TV
A home in Brentwood, New Hampshire, exploded today live on TV as an ABC News helicopter was flying over the area, filming as it was burning. According to ABC News: It was unclear what caused the explosion at the house, located in a development called Mill Pond Crossing, a retirement community, police said. An elderly … Continued
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NASA: Unstoppable Antarctic ice collapse to increase global sea levels
Impressive photo of the Thwaites Glacier on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet which—according to NASA and University of California scientists—“appears to be in an irreversible state of decline, with nothing to stop the glaciers in this area from melting into the sea.” They carry enough water to rise global sea levels by 4 feet (1.2 … Continued
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Handy Charts Show How To Pet Your Animal Friends Safely
For some reason, we humans have an intense desire to touch animals. Lucky for you, we found a handy, graphical guide to the safest ways to pet, poke, and prod them. Here’s the thing. If the animal isn’t a domesticate – a horse, a cat, a dog – just don’t touch it, okay? Take this … Continued
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Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon Shows Just How Messy First Contact Could Get
Lagoon, Nnedi Okorafor’slatest novel, is a swirling writhing cross section of life in Lagos, Nigeria as aliens make contact for the first time ever. It doesn’t go smoothly — a fact which allows Okorafor to bring to life a fascinating view of Lagos in all its contradictions. The aliens, who claim foremost to be “agents … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidRoad rage driver shows why road rage is so silly by crashing his car
We’re so lucky that Russia is doing its part in documenting history through dash cams because we get to see idiots act like idiots every other day. Here we get to see a foolish driver in road rage, who didn’t merge into a lane fast enough, ‘retaliate’ on the car who ‘cut him off’ by … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWatch a 20mm anti-tank rifle destroying an Apple iMac in slow motion
RatedRR is back again with the big guns. How big? 20mm big! Witness the power of the Lahti L-39, a Finnish 20mm anti-tank rifle used during World War II. So powerful and accurate that they even took down airplanes with its fully automatic variant. Here you can see it destroy an Apple iMac. You can … Continued
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