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The More Walkable a City Is, the More Money It Makes
A focus on dense, walkable development allows cities to pack more economic punch per square foot, according to a new study. In Washington DC, deemed the most walkable U.S. city, the most walkable areas in the city take up less than one percent of the total acreage, but represent almost half of the most wealth-generating … Continued
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Tech NewsSploid
This is the most disgusting video I have ever seen
I really came close to barfing while watching this video of a mother toad having baby toads off its back. “Her offsprings have developed from egg to toad in her back, and now it’s time to move on,” says the narrator. No, narrator, now it’s time to kill it with a machete, then douse it … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Apple Is Happy to Take Your Money if Amazon Won’t
Fresh off of settling a lawsuit that accused it of collusion with publishers, Apple is ready to take the money you were planning to give to Amazon but can’t. Since Amazon is in a fight with Hachette—the world’s largest bookstore and one of the world’s largest publishers respectively—and refuses to let customers pre-order any books … Continued
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Tech NewsSploid
What would it look like if you could peel a city off Earth’s crust?
Supparat Thepparat is an illustrator who creates some really cool surreal imagery for advertising agencies. Without their commercial context, his cities peeling from the Earth’s crust, the open air mines on fish flesh, or a dog peeling off his coat are as artistic and surreal as any painting by Salvador Dalí.* * Which is kind … Continued
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Start a Rebellion In Your Kitchen With an X-wing Knife Holder
Would the Rebel Alliance have been able to defeat the Death Stars and the Empire flying a bunch of wooden blocks? No. Then why wouldn’t you want to store your kitchen knives in this X-wing shaped knife block that is clearly a superior design to a block of wood? Available in late August for just … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgets
These Inductive Batteries Keep Your Power Tools Perpetually Charged
It’s almost impossible to think of a time when you had to wrangle a long cord while working with power tools. But as convenient as cordless tools are, they’re useless if their batteries are dead. So this fall, Bosch will be introducing batteries with inductive charging that simply need to be placed on a base … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle
How Nest Is Already Using All That Data From Its Army of Smoke Alarms
The big news from Nest today is that Protect is back on the shelves. But lost in the shuffle is a more interesting tidbit from the company: Its first report on data culled from the alarms of hundreds of thousands of users. It’s a glimpse at how Nest (and Google) can use their army of … Continued
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These Artificial Diamonds Are the Hardest Stones Ever Made
They’re already among the hardest materials on the planet, but modern industrial applications are quickly pushing both natural and man-made diamonds to their structural limits. However a new method of diamond making has resulted in a stone that’s harder than any other ever seen. Constructed by researchers Yongjun Tian and Quan Huang at China’s Yanshan … Continued
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Tech NewsFakes
That Time a Lying Factbot Accidentally Told The Truth
The internet loves fun facts. But those images and facts we see floating around are often more fun than fact. Sometimes, these incorrect facts are distributed by people who simply haven’t done their homework. Other times, they’re the product of people who just want to throw a wrench in the machinery of social media. UK-based … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebook
Facebook Slingshot Hands On: A Less Useful, More Confusing Snapchat
Facebook just unveiled its latest standalone app: Slingshot. It’s a lot like Snapchat, except worse. I hate to say it, but even Poke was more fun than this. Don’t get me wrong. Slingshot is a pretty app, with an original twist. Like Snapchat, it lets you send your friend a photo or video (plus whatever … Continued
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The Impact of El Niño on North America
A slacking of prevailing winds and the resulting slosh of warm water across the Pacific Basin has continued to raise ocean surface temperatures. Now just about every climate model is predicting an El Niño this year, but what exactly does that mean? We’ve covered a global view before, and during the Q&A with climate scientist … Continued
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Tech NewsAmazon
A Look Inside the Amazon Lab Behind Tomorrow’s 3D Smartphone
Tomorrow, Amazon unveils its entry into the smartphone arena , a long-rumored device that supposedly uses eye-tracking tech to create the first 3D smartphone display . BloombergBusinessweek spoke to some of Amazon’s mad scientists for the inside story on Lab126, the skunkworks tasked with making the 3D phone a reality. As Brad Stone (author of … Continued
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This Galactic Mass of Soccer Balls Were Found in Oceans Around the World
Fútbol fever is going around. And for every Wold Cup superstar on a global stage, there are tons of amateurs out there playing around with their own, non-regulation balls. The sad reality is a lot of those get tossed out before their time, and the sadder reality is that many of them end up clogging … Continued
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Live Your Hogwarts Fantasies With Universal Studios’ Interactive Wands
If you’ve refused to acknowledge a reality without magic and wizards after the Harry Potter books and films ended, Universal Studios’ Wizarding World of Harry Potter will now let you further live out your fantasies with new interactive wands that bring many parts of the attraction to life. The wands will be available for purchase … Continued
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The Navy Wants to Mount an Anti-UAV Laser on a Hummer–A Hummer!
The Office of Naval Research has just announced another breakthrough in its efforts to bring laser-based weapons to future battlefields. What once could only be accommodated by a tractor trailer now fits neatly in the back seat of a Humvee. It’s only a matter of time until our armed forces march off to war with … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
iOS 8 Will Make Drawing on Your Devices Way More Intuitive
Perfecting your artistic technique using a stylus is about to get a whole lot more refined. With the introduction of iOS 8, your screen will be sensitive to the relative width of whatever’s running across its surface. That’s great news for folks who prefer Paper and other drawing apps to, well, paper. Over on Co.Design, … Continued
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Scientists Use a Shadow Network That’s 1000x Faster Than Your Internet
When it comes to truly humongous amounts of data, it can be faster to just drop a hard drive in the mail—unless you have access to the Energy Sciences Network, a blazing shadow network that is 100 times faster than even the much-ballyhooed Google Fiber. Of course, you need to be doing something more important … Continued
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OK Go Proves Again That Eye-Popping Optical Illusions Don’t Need CGI
Ignore the grumblings of some sourpuss Gizmodo staffers: OK Go’s new video for “The Writing’s On the Wall” is just straight-up fun for your ears and your eyes, thanks to a plethora of optical illusions rendered in the real world, rather than on a computer. The crazy one-take mindbender genre is familiar territory for OK … Continued
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