Using X-Rays To Peer Inside Ancient Art Objects

Using X-Rays To Peer Inside Ancient Art Objects

Photographer David Maisel—widely known for his incredible aerial work, including a breath-taking project recently shot in Spain—has opened a new show in New York exploring the otherwise invisible insides of culturally important art objects. Called History’s Shadow, it is on display at the Yancey Richardson Gallery until May 10, 2014.

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How Oculus And 8 Fake Ears Could Morph Concerts Into Video Games

Binaural 3D Microphone head I’m standing on a circular stage with neo-folk musician Beck. Surrounded by cheering fans, I blush, then turn and wave to thank them. They don’t see me, though, because I’m actually sitting in a dark, empty back room at Sundance Film Festival wearing an Oculus Rift. Read More

Samsung Gear Fit Review

The Samsung Gear Fit is very close to being a concept brought to life. With its shard of curved full-color AMOLED touchscreen and unusually narrow design, the smartwatch/fitness band hybrid … Continue reading

Berlin Is Threatened From Below By Its Rising Water Table

Berlin Is Threatened From Below By Its Rising Water Table

While the American West stumbles forward into an already dangerous drought —and it’s barely even summer—Berliners are simply not using enough water. This means that the city’s water table is now on the rise, and it’s beginning to threaten the city’s buildings from below. Some basements have already been affected.

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Turkey’s prime minister accuses Twitter of tax evasion

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan isn’t happy that free speech rights thwarted his desires to block Twitter and silence corruption allegations, so he’s switching to plan B: accuse Twitter of shady dealings. He’s now promising to “go after”…

Wearable tech: here’s how vanity replaces the smartphone

According to a study by IDC, in the year 2018 the wearable technology market will see about 111.9 million units being used the globe. This is a huge number predicted, … Continue reading

Plastic HTC One M8 Rumored

Plastic HTC One M8 Rumored

HTC is committed to using an all-metal build for its high-end flagship smartphones. Both the original HTC One and the new HTC One M8 tout metal builds which have been much appreciated, in fact, the company itself considers the metal body a plus over the plastic Galaxy S5. So this rumor doesn’t exactly make a whole lot of sense. A rumor surfaced today claiming that a plastic HTC One M8 is going to be released in the near future. Apart from the difference in build material everything else, as far as the physical appearance goes, is expected to be the same.

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    Samsung Galaxy S5 Review

    Samsung cannot be ignored, and the importance of the Galaxy S5 cannot be overlooked. New bearer of the crown of “best-known Android smartphone” it’s a chance not only for Samsung … Continue reading

    Almost Half Of All Twitter Accounts Have Never Tweeted [Report]

    Almost Half Of All Twitter Accounts Have Never Tweeted [Report]

    From the looks of things, it seems that Twitter doesn’t have a problem with getting people to sign up. It has already been established as the second largest social network, behind Facebook. Twitter is one of the best online services for real-time information, and many people use it for just that. A new report from Twopcharts suggests that nearly 44 percent of the 974 million accounts have never sent a single tweet. Twopcharts monitors activity on Twitter accounts.

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    The Infrastructural Mystery at the End of Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys

    The Infrastructural Mystery at the End of Michael Lewis's Flash Boys

    What an awesome way to end a book: literally in the last paragraph, Michael Lewis’s excellent Flash Boys drops a weird infrastructural mystery—and this gives away no spoilers—right when you were ready to turn out the light and go to sleep. But there, in the final six sentences, Lewis lights a fire.

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