Scientists have announced a breakthrough in medical technology with the ability to grow what they are calling perfect human blood vessels as organoids in a petri dish. An organoid is a 3D structure that is grown from stem cells that mimics an organ and can be used to study aspects of that organ in a petri dish. The scientists say … Continue reading
Apps! They’re everywhere! Even Pope Francis is endorsing them. On Sunday, the pontiff touted an app called ClickToPray ahead of the World Youth Day festival in Panama.
Apple and LG teamed up to create one of the only 5K monitors on the market, and amazingly, one that can be driven by a single USB-C cable, if you have a compatible Mac. It’s tough to swallow (but honestly, not outrageously priced) at its usual $1300, but it’s a lot more tempting for $650 as a refurb.
Scams and forgeries have definitely gotten a lot more sophisticated over the years, largely thanks to forgers learning from previous mistakes, and also due to technology that has copying things even more better than before. Unfortunately for a certain Gerald McGoey, his attempts at falsifying documents was discovered due to the wrong use of a Microsoft font.
According to the reports, it seems that McGoey was the CEO of a company called Look Communications which collapsed and left him bankrupt. Following the liquidation of the company where he was ordered to pay $5.6 million back to his creditors, McGoey claimed that the assets did not belong to him and actually belonged to his wife and children. To “prove” this, he showed the courts two signed documents that alleged that the assets really did belong to his wife and children.
Unfortunately for McGoey, it seems that his scheme quickly unraveled after it was discovered that the font he had used was Calibri for one of the documents that dated back to 1995, and the other used was Cambria for a document dated in 2004. This is important because Cambria was designed in 2004, while Calibri was designed between 2002-2004, but neither fonts were used much until 2007 when they were bundled together with Windows Vista and newer versions of Microsoft Office.
As such it would have been impossible for him to have used either font unless he worked for Microsoft or was involved in the design of the font.
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The discovery has been the subject of a contentious debate.
What you’re about to watch is either a James Cameron movie with a VERY low budget, or a bunch of LEGO minifigs made out of gallium and melted for fun. It’s actually the latter, and it is very fun to watch. YouTuber DaveHax used LEGO minifig shaped ice molds to make some figures, then melted them like little T-1000s. It may just be the best thing ever.
Gallium is a solid metal at room temperature but has a melting point of around 86°F (30°C), and that’s what allows the magic to happen so easily. Minifigs look awesome in gallium, but they look even cooler when they melt. Too bad Dave couldn’t find a way to make it wear a tiny police uniform.
First, he tried to put them on a hot tray, but only the feet melted. Then he tried candles under the tray, but still no Terminator melting. They did melt, but not in the coolest way, but once he leaned it against the back of the tray, that’s when he got that sweet Terminator action. Check it out:
BTW I love Dave’s sciency voice.
[via The Awesomer via Geekologie]
A few recent technologies have drastically changed the way we make things and learn. 3D printing has opened the floodgates for makers and tinkerers to create all kinds of things previously possible only with an assembly line. Robotics has also given the younger generation a more exciting introduction to science and technology. But in both aspects, quality experiences and results … Continue reading
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