With Google dropping the cost for its Drive service
Satellite images of cities at night look wonderful—until you zoom in and realize that they’re a big, blurry mess. These gorgeous city images, made by Marc Khachfe, solve that problem—because they’re actually computer generated from OpenStreetMap data.
This stunning video shows all the flights that cross Europe on a typical summer day. Beautifully animated, it really provides a great insight into the intensity of modern air travel.
Today’s slim, svelte computers look great. You, on the other hand, look like a total yutz fumbling around to plug a thumb drive into a USB port that’s somehow perpetually upside down. What if saving your data was as easy as slapping a sticky note on your screen? That’s what a design team proposes with this highly theoretical design for paper-thin, sticky memory cards.
In the ongoing mobile phone price wars, AT&T just knocked $15 off 2GB Mobile Share Value plans, brin
Posted in: Today's ChiliIn the ongoing mobile phone price wars, AT&T just knocked $15 off 2GB Mobile Share Value plans, bringing the single-line price down to $65 a month. [Re/code]
Borrowing bits and pieces of technology from the automobile industry, Facebook hopes to construct a radical new second building in the city of Luleå, Sweden. This new structure proposes to … Continue reading
A privacy advocate group has asked regulators at the Federal Trade Commission to put the kibosh on Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp for a while. It seems they want to get … Continue reading
The Navy's New Underwater Internet
Posted in: Today's ChiliYou use Wi-Fi everyday, but have you heard of its cousin, Li-Fi? Devices that use blinking lights to transmit data could provide the wireless Internet of the future.
The NBA is always out to get more data that it can share with fans to get them more involved in the sport. One of the ways that the NBA … Continue reading
The NBA recently announced that the players of all 30 teams—and the balls they use!—would have tracking devices installed to analyze player movements during games. Now, the first dribles of the fascinating data are available.