All airports are absolutely, positively not created equal. Case in point: the brand new Terminal 3 at Shenzhen’s Bao’an International hub, which will be inaugurated next month after five years in the making. This place is a certifiable beaut that befits the awesome act of flying that we take for granted all the dang time.
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You don’t think about it while flipping through your Instagram feed, but your social escapades generate a lot of heat. “We now have to decide if we want to position data centers near the arctic circle to take advantage of cooling,” joked HP’s Martin Fink, CTO and Director of HP Labs during …
There’s a conspiracy theory appearing in print this week summoning up the suggestion that Apple purposefully creates products that become obsolete over time. The very idea that such an article exists – here in 2013, no less – but that it only targets one single company as such makes it clear: someone didn’t do their […]
The name “Jack O’ Lantern” was originally one of the numerous names given to ignis fatuus (Medieval Latin for “foolish fire”), another of which is “Will O’ the Wisps”, basically the odd light that can occasionally be seen over marshes, swamps, and the like. “Jack O’ Lantern” first popped up being used this way around the mid-17th century in East Anglia, UK and spread from there through parts of England, Ireland, and Scotland.
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Never mind that Facebook hasn’t exactly taken the world by storm with smartphones carrying its brand. And never mind that what’s left of BlackBerry’s user base is largely comprised of Enterprise-based users who value the platform’s added layer of security — not exactly the kind of people who would …
Are we all related? The genealogy website Geni claims over 70 million users.
(Credit: Geni.com)
How much do you know about your ancestors? Many people can’t trace their family back more than a century, but researchers have grown a family tree with more than 13 million people in it.
Yaniv Erlich and colleagues at MIT’s Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have used data that goes back to the 15th century to shed light on how genetic traits influence successive generations.
In a presentation to an American Society of Human Genetics meeting, Erlich explained how using social networks can be useful for tracing characteristics in very large families.
While it’s very costly and time-consuming to conduct large-scale genetic studies, popular genealogy sites can be a useful source of free data for research.
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Perhaps you’ve seen a few more images and Vines populating your Twitter feed this afternoon? That’s because the web version of Twitter reflects the service’s latest update: image and Vine previews below related tweets. Both the iOS and Android versions of Twitter also get the update today. The …
It doesn’t seem like Patricia Jobs, sister of famed Apple co-founder Steve, is exactly onboard with her family home being designated a “historic resource” by the Los Altos Historical Commission. Not that it matters, anyway. According to the San Jose Mercury News, the decision to preserve the …
Click no further! Today, Twitter rolls out a new feature that embeds previews of photos and videos within your tweets. The update is available for both the web interface and iOS and Android apps, and promises to be super awkward when your random college buddy tweets NSFW pixxx. [Twitter]
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You’ll still be a laughing stock if you try and dock amongst the obnoxiously monstrous private yachts in Monaco, but if you’ve always dreamed of cruising the lakes and rivers in something a little more glamorous than a canoe, the Jet Capsule will easily fill that role. And presumably at a price tag that won’t leave you bankrupt.
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