Square Market’s one of the latest e-retailers to realize that Bitcoins might not be too cryptic to be used as a legit payment option, after all. The e-commerce website now accepts payments made using the cryptocurrency, as Square Market Lead Ajit…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover currently has a long trip ahead of it – the drone is on its way to Mount Sharp, where it will investigate the geological history of Mars. It won’t arrive there for a few months, however…so in the meantime, it’s just enjoying the ride, taking samples and snapshots along the way.
Cars and hacking, at least the digital kind, aren’t two things you usually associate with each other, but the rise of smart cars might make that a source of headaches … Continue reading
This is a really unusual weather situation, according to the National Weather Service: Three low pressure systems in line over the entirety of North America. NASA Goddard describes them as "three atmospheric dragons." They do look like dragons! It must be a Game of Thrones’ marketing ploy.
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Ever wanted to see what New York City’s maps looked like before skyscrapers took over… or before Americans took over, for that matter? It’s now easy as pie. The New York Public Library has published more than 20,000 of its historical maps under a…
NEC has begun shipping their newest digital cinema projector ‘NC1100L’. Adopting the DLP display technology, this 3D-ready laser-based projector supports a native resolution of 2048 x 1080 pixels (2K) and provides 1750:1 contrast ratio, 16:9 aspect ratio and up to 20,000 hours of laser lamp life. In terms of connectivity ports, it comes with 2x 3GSDI, HDMI, 3x USB Type A and eSATA. The NC1100L is available now. [NEC]
Milestone Japan has recently listed EVGA’s GeForce GTX 780 Ti SC w/ ACX Cooler graphics card on its product page. The card is available for purchase now for 85,695 Yen (about $833). Specs-wise, the card sports 2880 CUDA Cores, a 384-bit memory interface, a core clock of 1006MHz (1072MHz Boost Clock) and a 3GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 7000MHz. Not to mention, the card also employs EVGA’s original ACX cooling system and has DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. [Product Page]
Airbnb announced today that it will begin charging San Francisco’s 14 percent hotel tax on reservations in the city, starting this summer. The taxes will be paid by guests. Last week, the company announced a different partnership in Portland, Oregon, where Airbnb itself will pay some city taxes.
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Change the way you engage with your TV with Ugoos’ latest quad-core Android 4.2 TV box ‘UT2′. Powered by a 1.6GHz RK3188 Cortex-A9 quad-core processor, the device is equipped with a Mali-400 GPU, a 2GB RAM, a 32GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), Adobe Flash support, DLNA support, dual band WiFi (2.4GHz/5GHz), Bluetooth 4.0, 3x USB port, an HDMI port, a LAN port, a micro-USB port and runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean OS. The UT2 retails for $139.65. [Product Page]
Sanwa is bringing you their latest 3D USB adapter, the AD-3DUSB8K. Coming in white color option, the adapter is equipped with a USB A male connector and a USB A female connector, and can be bent in two directions – 180-degrees left and right / 90-degrees up and down. The AD-3DUSB8K is available now for 1,239 Yen (about $12). [Product Page]
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