Mar 16
Doctors in the United Kingdom are advancing medical 3-D printing at a rapid pace, and have just announced the first facial reconstruction using all 3-D printed parts.
Mar 16
Lego Cubestormer robot solves Rubik’s Cube in less time than it takes to read this headline
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Until yesterday, the world record for fastest time in solving a Rubik’s Cube was 5.27 seconds, which was set in the fall of 2011 by a Lego robot named Cubestormer 2. Thanks to the machine’s successor (aptly named Cubestormer 3), the time to beat is…
Mar 16
Isaac Hannaford’s does amazing concept work for games like Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, and Destiny. His designs feel really solid and so elegant. My brain can buy into them. I can imagine and believe a future like this.
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Mar 16
This article was written on July 16, 2007 by CyberNet.
Apple fan or not, if you haven’t visited “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs,” go take a look around, it’ll be worth it. The blog has become quite popular over the last several months, and even the real Steve Jobs has admitted to reading the blog. It’s funny, and entertaining, and one of my favorite posts came from the day the iPhone launched. It was titled “29 June 2007: The day the world changed.” I’d say his older material is better than some of the recent stuff, but it’s all still good.
People have been wondering for a while now who this “Fake Steve” is and many have been going to the extremes to try and figure it out. Apple 2.0 recently posted (as have others) that all evidence is pointing to a man named Andy Ihnatko who writes tech reviews for the Chicago Sun Times and also does back-page humor for MacWorld. After checking out two of Ihnatko’s blogs (here and here), you can’t help but notice the similarities in the writing style.
Now, when I said people were going to extremes to find out who the author is, I meant it. TUAW.com posted about how one site put their detective hat on to solve the mystery:
If you checked out Fake Steve Jobs’s site yesterday, you might have seen a short post about a marginally funny iPhone Haiku site. I’ve still got the post in my Google Reader, as you can see in the pic. Seems harmless, right?
That’s what FSJ thought. But apparently, the link was sent to him by the guys at Sitening (who also created the Haiku site as a lark), and the link he was sent was a specially created link, made up just for FSJ by the Sitening guys. See where this is going? When he clicked the link, they tracked his IP, and here it is: 68.160.21.224. That IP traces back to a Verizon service, which the Sitening guys say is in Boston, MA.
Considering Ihnatko lives in the Boston area, I think the hunt for Fake Steve is just about over. Unfortunately, part of the appeal for me was that no one knew who this guy was.
Anyways, check out Fake Steve if you haven’t.
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Mar 16
This is Marshmallow—the incredible Houdini cat who can escape any cell at a veterinary clinic in Marseille, France, just by unlocking the door. The veterinary calls him the "king of evasion."
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Mar 16
This sequence feels computer generated but it was shot in Alaska using a GoPro HERO3+ on the DJI Phantom quadrotor helicopter. It feels like a tiny ice tunnel until you notice the two guys standing inside and you realize that this hole is huge. The entire video is beautiful.
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Mar 15
Pandora has been fighting tooth and nail against potential songwriting royalty increases, and it appears that this tenacity is largely paying off. A court has ruled that the streaming radio service should pay the same 1.85 percent royalty rate that…
Mar 15
I have a theory. When it comes to new technology, there are a bunch of early adopters who start using it and everyone else sees the very worst in the technology, ultimately belittling, dismissing and making fun of those who use it. But in spite of this initial negative reaction the technology finds its way into the mainstream, after a time, and the early fears and misinformation fades away. Read More
Mar 15
This article was written on June 12, 2008 by CyberNet.
So it was just announced that Firefox 3.0 will be coming on Tuesday, but lets not get ahead of ourselves… Opera 9.5 is here today! The Opera team has worked tirelessly to bring you the next generation browser that millions of people will find comfort in using, and what they have to show for their work is something they can really be proud of. The new Opera 9.5 not only looks great, but it also harnesses the speed and power we’ve come to love in the browser.
Before we jump right in to what’s new, lets first take a look at some of the things the development team wanted to point out:
- The number of Opera users has more than doubled since the release of 9.0
- We fixed a new record of bugs, including 2350 showstoppers
- The desktop team ate 12 pizzas while fixing bugs in 9.5 RC
- IMAP is up to 4 times as fast in 9.5 than in 9.2
- Almost 500.000 of you were already using betas of 9.5
Just 12 pizzas in two days? Come on guys… here I thought you were real programmers! 😉
A complete list of changes is available, but here’s a general overview of what’s new according to Opera Watch:
- Opera Link synchronizes your bookmarks, Speed Dial, and notes between Opera on different computers, and even links to Opera Mini on your mobile
- Enhanced address bar searches your entire browsing history, including the contents of each page
- Security enhancements: malware protection, improved fraud protection, and support for Extended Validation SSL Certificates
- New rendering engine with improved site compatibility and performance
- Opera Dragonfly, the long-awaited tools for web developers
- New skin
I strongly believe that the Opera Link technology is going to be something that will attract a large number of new users, especially those that use Opera Mini on a mobile device. That way they’ll be able to keep their bookmarks in sync no matter where they are at.
In addition to that list I would like to add that the mail client has undergone a tremendous overhaul that brings both performance and feature enhancements. If all of this sounds like something you want to try then maybe you should go grab yourself a hardy helping of Opera 9.5. Otherwise you can hold out for Firefox 3.0 which will be here in just a few days!
Thanks to Oropher, Omar, and Cody for the tips!
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Mar 15
Torrent front end Popcorn Time made streaming movies free and easy, so of course it’s gone (update)
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For about four days “Popcorn Time” lived, opening an easy-access door to streaming movies via torrents, but now it’s gone. Aggregating info from APIs (YIFY for torrents, OpenSubtitles for subs and TheMovieDB for metadata) its developers quickly…
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