Oct 24
A team of researchers promises it can increase wireless bandwidth by an order or magnitude, without any new hardware whatsoever. All that’s required, it claims, is a little extra math. More »
Oct 19
As a teacher, what you do with your time and your iPhone camera and your body outside of school are your own business. But if you do happen to take sexxxy pictures of yourself at home, it may not be the best idea to upload them to iCloud. Why not, you ask. Because if you do, four of your students will borrow the school iPad associated with your iCloud account, open up iPhoto, and be scarred for life at having been exposed to your grownup boobs. More »
Oct 17
Why Some Pills Are Little White Discs and Others Are Big Red Torpedoes [Design]
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Pills, they’re the answer to every one of life’s little problems, or so the pharmaceutical companies would like us to think. They come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colours, but have you ever thought about why? Why are some boring white and round, while others are bright pink and look like a torpedo? More »
Oct 12
According to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, light traveling in a vacuum is the universal speed limit. But scientists love to try and break rules—and now a tweaked version of Einstein’s equations suggests that faster-than-light travel might just be possible. More »
Oct 02
Would an Unlimited Subscription Get Your Ass Back in a Movie Theater Seat? [Chatroom]
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Going to the movies is expensive. Here in New York a regular adult ticket costs about $12, which doesn’t even include the price of popcorn and soda. MoviePass, which is currently in beta, wants to fix this by offering an all-you-can-watch subscription to the movies. More »
Sep 27
Facebook has finally gotten round to deleting thousands of fake user accounts and removing illegitimate likes in a bid to clean up the social network. It’s not clear quite how many accounts have been wiped out, but plenty of pages have seen massive drops in their fan numbers over the last two days. More »
Sep 25
Scientists Discover Why You Remember Good News But Ignore the Bad [Science]
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Humans tend to remember good news and attenuate the bad: our brains filter the two, and make us remember positive things more strongly than negative. It’s a standard human trait—and now scientists understand how it happens. More »
Sep 24
For decades, breast cancer was considered a single disease. Recent research, however, suggested it was a number of genetically distinct variations—and now a new study has split the disease into four differently treatable types. More »
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