Apr 22
Does your internet always seem too slow? Chances are, it is: a study by the Wall Street Journal suggests that the majority of ISPs deliver slower speeds than they advertise.
Mar 27
Last week Samvir Thandi
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Mar 19
The world starts to blur. People and trees and houses and stores are just streaks of colors as you zoom by. The roads become vertical as you make your turns. You’re going so fast that, if you hit anything on the road, even a stick, you’re probably going to fly hundreds of feet in the air and smack yourself to pulp. This is what it’s like to race a motorcycle in the Isle of Man TT. It’s unreal how fast they go.
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Mar 14
How fast you’re going while out floating on the big blue can be notoriously tricky to judge if you’re just eyeballing it. One method used to get around this issue was introduced in the sixteenth century using a "chip log" or "log-line."
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Jan 28
You’re sitting still, right? Wrong. When it comes to how fast you’re moving right this instant, everything is relative.
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Nov 14
Sometimes it’s hard to put things like the speed of light into perspective: it’s a number so large that it’s tough to make sense of. Which is why this visualization, which compares the speed of things you can (kinda) more easily visualize, is massively helpful.
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Sep 29
Ever wonder if your iPhone 4 really was weirdly slow? Or if iOS 7, despite its bells and whistles, just has a longer boot time than your old 3G? Well wonder no longer. You’re about to find out for sure.
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Aug 13
The International Space Station orbits the Earth at 8 kilometers per second—but it’s tough to visualize just how fast that is. When you think about it in terms of how far the thing moves during the course of a song you know, though, you’ll be shocked.
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Aug 09
Whether you like motor sports or not, the space age engineering, design prowess, and mechanical dexterity of Formula 1 teams is something anyone can really admire. The speed of the pit stop crews is something that is hard to believe. How can they do it in 2.05 seconds? Discover how in this slow motion video.
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Jul 10
These speeds aren’t indicative of what T-Mo’s LTE network—which just went live in NYC and elsewhere
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