Where Do You Actually Store All Your Online Stuff?

Where Do You Actually Store All Your Online Stuff?

With Google dropping the cost for its Drive service to just $10 a month for an absurdly mammoth 1TB of storage, it’s a great time to think: "Wow, well I maybe I should cram all my digital crap into the same place for simplicity!" But it’s never that easy.

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These Stunning Satellite Images of Cities Were Really Made With Data

These Stunning Satellite Images of Cities Were Really Made With Data

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.

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An Entire Day of All of Europe's Air Travel, Visualized

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.

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Someday You Could Save Your Files With Nothing But a Sticky Note

Someday You Could Save Your Files With Nothing But a Sticky Note

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.

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In the ongoing mobile phone price wars, AT&T just knocked $15 off 2GB Mobile Share Value plans, brin

In 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]

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Facebook to build innovative Data Center Concept in Lulea, Sweden

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

Privacy groups demand Facebook Whatsapp acquisition be halted

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

The Navy's New Underwater Internet

You 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.

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NBA player and ball movement visualized using sensors

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

Entire NBA Game Movements, Visualized

Entire NBA Game Movements, Visualized

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.

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