The Days of Squinting at Laptops in the Sun Are Almost Over
Humanity has landed a probe on a comet traveling 80,000 mph and flown past a dwarf planet three billion miles away. So why can’t we make a damn laptop screen that lets you work outside in the sun?
August 7, 2015 at 01:11PM
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Artists Will Save Music Quality From The Tyranny Of The Stream
Some artists are scared of the streaming-dominated future, where pays yield just pennies and quality is squashed. Now they’re banding together to reclaim their art from Silicon Valley.
August 7, 2015 at 01:11PM
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La tecnológica acaba de lanzar la actualización para los dispositivos de Apple; esta es una característica que los usuarios de Android ya han tenido por años.
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The jams don’t have to stay in your pocket. Set your music loose with one of these wireless systems.
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A Ridiculously Fast Radial Engine, Built From LEGO, That Runs On Compressed Air
Raul Oaida built this prototype for the Super Awesome Micro Project back in 2013. It has 64 cylinders and makes an incredible racket.
August 7, 2015 at 12:48PM
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ERCOT’s Principal Human Factors Engineer is charged with optimizing interaction between humans and computers. This is critical in helping electrons navigate from point A to point B (and all the places in between).
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Something strange happened in Fallout 3. 99% of the game was open-world bliss: you, the lone wanderer, traipsing about the wasteland on your way to becoming an invincible warrior capable of shifting the entire fate of the post-apocolyptic DC metro. But when the main story came to its climax, that idea of choice melted away. Without giving away too many spoilers, the game forcefully ended the player story, even though there were friendly ways it could have continued. Fans hated it so much that Bethesda had to walk it back with the Broken Steel DLC and give players the ability to play on after the main quest. It was a much-needed move, but that made it even stranger when developer Obsidian did the same thing with Fallout: New Vegas. According to Bethesda, this won’t be the case with Fallout 4. They tweet:
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Boeing’s Echo Seeker is a 32-foot-long autonomous sub that can hang out in the abyss for up to three days.
The post Boeing’s New Autonomous Sub Can Dive to 20,000 Feet Deep appeared first on WIRED.
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A Gorgeous New Weather Model of the World
NOAA’s weatherView animates real-time wind and shows city lights at night. Staring into this thing is the perfect way to escape the blistering summer heat.
August 7, 2015 at 12:04PM
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Apple’s Fitness Guru Opens Up About the Watch
In Jay Blahnik’s first extended interview since Apple hired him to help launch the Watch, the company’s director of fitness for health technologies insists activity tracking is overemphasized, elite athletes have a sitting problem, and the real breakthrough apps for the device will probably be created outside of Cupertino.
August 7, 2015 at 12:04PM
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