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Scientists Made Synthetic Life Using Genetic Material Whipped Up in a Lab
In every 8th grade science class, you learn the five nucleic acids that make up the base pairs in DNA and RNA: A,C,T,G, and U. These and these alone, we’re taught, are the building blocks of life. Not...
View ArticleDark matter could be spotted in GPS time glitches
GPS has a new job. It does a great job of telling us our location, but the network of hyper-accurate clocks in space could get a fix on something far more elusive: dark matter. Dark matter makes up 80...
View ArticleElite: Dangerous boss says online-only is « the right decision »
I was disappointed to learn that Elite: Dangerous won’t support offline play, both as a matter of principle and practicality: My rural lifestyle has gifted me with internet access that’s slow on good...
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Nokia’s first device after Microsoft is an iPad mini clone that runs Android
Nokia is back in the devices business just under seven months after selling its devices and services unit to Microsoft for $7.2 billion. Nokia is unveiling its N1 Android tablet today, days after...
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Pushbullet is an awesome app that link your notifications between your laptop...
Some of us work a lot on multiple devices, swapping between desktop to tablets to smartphones depending on the nature of our work. We understand that sometimes you want to have access to the same...
View ArticleWorld of Warcraft surpasses 10m subs after Warlords of Draenor launch
New expansion achieves day-one sell-through of more than 3.3 million copies On November 13, millions of Azeroth’s champions enlisted for the war against the Iron Horde with the launch of World of...
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How to live for a month in virtual reality
Next year, artist Mark Farid wants to give up a month of his life to virtual reality. If a crowdfunding campaign succeeds, he’ll spend 28 days in a gallery, wearing a VR headset and a pair of...
View ArticleGorilla Glass 4 shouldn’t shatter when you drop your phone
Plenty of mobile device screens can easily resist minor cracks and scratches, but let’s be honest — those aren’t the biggest problems. No, the real crisis comes when you drop your phone and the display...
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How Virtually Anyone Can Crack Tor’s Anonymity
With recent deep web raids from the FBI and Europol, the dark net appears to have more law enforcement eyes on it than ever before. And now, this: Tor, the most common way of accessing the dark net,...
View ArticleCERN frees LHC data
Anyone can access collision data from the Large Hadron Collider through the new CERN Open Data Portal. Today CERN launched its Open Data Portal, which makes data from real collision events produced by...
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Sony just got hacked, doxxed, and shut down
The work day ended early for Sony Pictures employees. Most of them, anyway. The IT crew will be logging overtime as they deal with a massive breach perpetrated by a group of hackers calling themselves...
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Uber is spying you very badly.
This is one of those interim posts where I’m not posting something cool, but rather something that’s bothering me. You know, like a blog post? Anyways, I downloaded Uber the other day and its pretty...
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