Drone Captures The Beauty Of The Norwegian Countryside
Sure it’s set to That One XX Song, but the beauty of computers is you can mute this video and play whatever music you like while you watch a drone fly high above Norway’s verdant cliffs.
August 13, 2015 at 10:08PM
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Why do we take our anger out on machines?
What a psychotherapist, mechanical engineer, anger management specialist and pop culture professor about beating up machines.
August 13, 2015 at 10:07PM
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The Most Common Childbirth Practice In America Is Unnecessary And Dangerous
Electronic fetal monitoring — which also includes external monitoring — is supposed to prevent deaths by alerting the doctor to complications that would require an emergency Cesarean or vacuum extraction. But study after study has proven that EFM is not logical at all, as it provides no benefit to most patients and creates more problems than it catches.
August 13, 2015 at 08:30PM
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A Century-Old Device May Be the Future of Electronics
There’s a new device in the works over at DARPA, the agency known for pushing the technological envelope with mind-controlled prosthetics and drone-launching submarines. This latest innovation? The vacuum tube. You might remember it from the first time humans invented it, way back in 1904.
August 13, 2015 at 06:33PM
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Watch NASA Test Fire The Rocket Engine Of The Future
Here’s footage of NASA conducting the sixth, of seven, test-firings of the RS-25 engine. Four RS-25s will power NASA’s next-generation Space Launch System — the spacecraft that will, hopefully, bring humanity to Mars.
August 13, 2015 at 06:11PM
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Google Unveils New Chrome OS Catered For Old Business Software
Google has announced changes to Chrome, its operating system for business computing, aimed at enabling companies to run most of their old and outdated software applications. Dell announced new Chromebooks, as the system laptops are called, and management software to work with the product.
August 13, 2015 at 04:32PM
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How Do You Map The DNA Of An Entire Tropical Mountain?
Biologist Menno Schilthuizen explains how his team combine modern lab techniques with the methods of Victorian naturalists to uncover the origins of unique mountain species.
August 13, 2015 at 04:11PM
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This Gigantic Cardboard Wheel Only Costs 36 iMacs
The employees of George Fox University’s IT department must have bought a slew of new iMacs recently, because they had all this iMac packaging left laying around. Naturally, they taped the boxes together into an enormous wheel and ran around in it. Don’t pretend you wouldn’t do the same thing.
August 13, 2015 at 02:39PM
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Guy Figures Out Why His Laptop Has Been Acting So Buggy
Never trust your computer again, you never know what might be living in there.
August 13, 2015 at 02:33PM
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Yeast Can Now Make Opiates
A strain of yeast engineered in a lab was able to transform sugar into a pain-killing drug — called hydrocodone — for the first time. And a second strain was able to produce thebaine, an opiate precursor that drug companies use to make oxycodone.
August 13, 2015 at 02:09PM
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