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Hulu Plus has been on a roll in the mobile world this month, dishing out a brand-new Windows Phone app and updates to its Android UI. Fortunately, the service is pushing out similar efforts to the home entertainment side as well: a new refresh is rolling out to Samsung Smart TVs, select Blu-ray players and newer Roku hardware, with the Wii getting the update treatment in the near future. Enhancements in the new “experience” include a new tray-style user interface with a “shows you watch” feature, simplified controls, better search and Hulu Kids. Sounds like a pretty solid effort by the company, but if you’re not convinced, head to the source link for the full list of changes.
Update: A post on the Roku blog indicates the new UI is coming to the Roku HD (2500) and later models including the Roku 2, 3 and Streaming Stick. Earlier devices will still get the old UI.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Trees are amazing things — they cool us in the heat, protect us from wind, and provide us with the materials for shelter. With their ability to process carbon dioxide into oxygen they are the lungs of the Earth. One of the largest tree on the planet is the giant redwood. To do your part for the environment (and just ’cause you want to) you can grow your own redwood in your garden.
The Moon is quite an interesting piece of rock, and while it’s the only planet-like object that we’ve explored by putting astronauts on it, there are still many things that have remained a mystery about the Moon, just as much as any other planet that we’ve explored with satellites. However, NASA says they’ve solved one big mystery particularly.
Ever since NASA sent satellites to the Moon to scout out landing spots for the Apollo missions, scientists have noticed that the gravitational pull on these satellites was extremely unstable, especially when they would travel over craters and impact basins. The satellites would periodically veer off course, plummeting toward the Moon’s surface, but would eventually climb back up into the intended orbit.
It’s quite obvious at this point to know these craters and basins have a stronger gravitational pull than other parts of the Moon, and scientists have suspected that it has to do with a surplus distribution of mass below the Moon’s surface. However, it’s been a mystery as to how this excess distribution of mass came to be, until now.
To find out more, NASA and researchers at MIT and Purdue University mapped out the gravitational fields of several lunar craters and impact basins to discover that the gravitational fields resemble a dartboard, where there’s a small center of strong gravitational pull surrounded by alternating rings of strong and weak gravity. NASA used high-res imagery from their Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) missions to map out the gravitational fields.
The agency discovered that this is caused by the way asteroids hit the Moon upon impact. When there’s an impact, the asteroid sends debris flying outward, and the impact sends a shockwave through the moon’s interior that creates a counterwave that attracts dense material from the Moon’s interior toward the surface of the crater at the center. This is what makes the bulls-eye, if you will. Pretty cool, right?
SOURCE: NASA
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There’s no question that the Surface RT comes into its own with a keyboard cover; we can’t imagine using the tablet unadorned. Microsoft can’t, either, as it’s launching a promo that gives the covers away. Americans and Canadians who buy the Windows RT slate between now and the end of June can get either the Touch Cover or the Type Cover for free, no matter which color they fancy. Surface Pro customers are out of luck, but it’s hard to dispute the value for prospective Surface RT owners — the deal amounts to at least a $100 discount on the touch PC’s real-world price.
Update: To be clear, this promo has been running in other countries; it’s just now debuting in North America, however.
Filed under: Tablets, Microsoft
Via: CNET
Source: Microsoft Store
Instructables member KlockworkKevin made a generator attachment for his bicycle. Even though he mostly used scrap parts for the generator, he was able to avoid making the whole thing an eyesore by hiding it in plain sight. When not in use, the generator is neatly hidden under KlockworkKevin’s patio table:
When he’s ready to burn some calories and charge some batteries, he just flips the table on its side and attaches his bike:
Here’s a demo of the generator (turn your volume down before you play it):
Wouldn’t it be awesome if all gym equipment worked like this? Head to Instructables to read KlockworkKevin’s walkthrough.
[via Inhabitat]
The world's teensiest bunny.
(Credit: Optical Materials Express)
Most commonly used as a test subject for 3D computer graphics, the Stanford Bunny has probably never turned up in a more intriguing place. This model of the bunny is tiny — just a few micrometers across, the size of an average bacterium.
It was created by a team of physicists and chemists from Yokohama National University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the company C-MET to demonstrate a new type of resin that can be used to create electrodes. Currently, there are materials that can be used to create complex 3D sculptures, but there’s a limitation that prevents these materials from being used in creating electronics.
Part of the electrode manufacturing process requires carbonization — that is, baking at a temperature high enough to turn its surface into carbon. This increases the conductivity of a resin structure and increases its surface area — but in the process, it damages the object’s original shape.
Finding things to do and places to go has never been easier thanks to services that neatly pull all the options together. Weotta hopes to be another weapon in your discovery app arsenal after expanding its coverage to the whole of the US, having initially been limited to 40 cities. As the company’s CEO told Forbes, the free iOS app uses “phrase extraction and natural language processing” to source its local suggestions from the nooks and crannies of the internet. That same wizardry is used to steer its rating system, which is based on what’s said about a venue or event rather than aggregating numerical scores. It’ll learn your likes and dislikes, tailoring recommendations as it gets to know you better, but you can discover what’s happening in the area for yourself using the search feature. Via Facebook Connect, the app will also tell you what’s popular among your peers. While Weotta is only available for iOS, it’s attracted funding from Google Ventures, which is a recommendation in itself that suggests you give it a whirl.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Software, Mobile
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