In May 1940, Thornwell Jacobs, the president of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, dedicated a 2,000-cubic-foot Crypt of Civilization intended to be sealed until May 28, 8113 C.E. He picked that date as the marker of a duration into the future equal to that which had passed since the oldest surviving…

The Tesla Model S is the most connected car in the world. It might surprise you to hear that it is also one of the most secure. In this talk we will walk you through the architecture of a Tesla Model S noting things that Tesla got right as well as identifying those that they got wrong. From this…

This ad from the 70's describes the Polaroid SX-70, a Land camera with complex optics and advanced features that brought immediate-results photography via the Polaroid system.

Standpunkt zu Staatstrojanern: Die digitale Intimsphäre schützen Nr. 18 – 5. Mai 2016 Zwei neue Überwachungsgesetze sollen den Einsatz von Staatstrojanern erlauben. Das wirft Fragen zur Verhältnismässigkeit und zur Sicherheit auf. Von Ein Staatstrojaner, auch Govware oder Spyware genannt, ist eine…

The process of impact-activated solidification that occurs when compressive forces are applied to fluid-grain suspensions. The two researchers conduct experiments with a mixture of cornstarch and water that is classified as a non-Newtonian liquid. This video examines the strange behavior of the…

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Policy A spiritual successor to Aaron Swartz is angering publishers all over again Meet accused hacker and copyright infringer Alexandra Elbakyan. David Kravets – Apr 3, 2016 10:00 am | 369 Aaron Swartz would be proud of Alexandra Elbakyan. The 27-year-old is at the center of a lawsuit brought by a…

Reza, a 20-something mechanical engineer working at an automotive parts factory in the northeastern Iranian city of Sabzevar, takes his web videos seriously. He’s watched the TED talk of amputee snowboarding champion Amy Purdy “over and over again.” The YouTube videos of Boston Dynamics robots Big…

By Colt McAnlis The JPG file format was one of the most technologically impressive advancements to image compression to come on the scene in 1992. Since then, it’s been a dominant force in representation of photo quality images on the internet. And for good reason. Much of the technology behind how…

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Don’t call it a lens: Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz displaying his company’s mysterious photonic lightfield chip. Peter Yang for Wired There is something special happening in a generic office park in an uninspiring suburb near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Inside, amid the low gray cubicles, clustered…

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20.04.2016 Barbara Wimmer Peter Sunde spricht sich im futurezone-Interview gegen Zensur im Netz aus. Ihn stört auch die Kontrolle von Facebook, Spotify und Netflix über unsere Daten. Dieser Artikel ist älter als ein Jahr! Die Ansichten des schwedischen Internet-Aktivisten, Software-Entwicklers und…

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Eating, praying and loving may be a stated goal of travel. In reality, we seem more obsessed with nabbing the perfect photo. The scalloped outline of Angkor Wat had a way of making itself known in the

A Reporter at Large The Cost of Caring April 4, 2016 After Emma realized that her white-collar job in the Philippines would never pay her enough to send her children to college, she came to New York and became a nanny.Photograph by Jehad NGA for The New Yorker In Emma’s first year at San Isidro…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Meeko the calf stood nuzzling a pile of hay. He didn’t seem to have much appetite, and he looked a little bored. Every now and then, he glanced up, as though wondering why so many people with…

In 2011, developer and researcher Alexandra Elbakyan launched Sci-Hub, an online archive that shares research articles freely and openly without paywalls or restrictions. Four years later, as the archive passed 48 million articles, academic publishing giant Elsevier filed a copyright infringement…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. I first heard about nuclear diving while I was getting my hair cut in downtown Manhattan. My stylist seemed out of place in an East Village salon, so I asked her where she lived. Brooklyn?…

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Julie Miller competing in the 2015 Ironman Canada. She lost her timing chip, shown at right, during the race.Credit...Illustration by Sam Manchester/The New York Times; Photographs by FinisherPix.com SQUAMISH, British Columbia — The race was tough and the conditions dreadful — 2.4 miles of swimming,…

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Losing the will to die just before choosing death. The last days of “Miracle Boy.” Photograph by Mark Mainz/Getty Images The men are sweet when they talk to me, like boys eager to please the teacher. These are BMX riders — current and former, amateur and pro — mourning Dave Mirra, the Michael Jordan…

The violin thief Philip Johnson was a promising musical prodigy. Then he stole a teacher’s prized Stradivarius. Published on March 17, 2016 He is dying, Q-tip elbows poking through a baggy shirt. Frie

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Currency April 4, 2016 As our relationship with photography shifts, will desktop-based photo-editing programs like the Google Nik Collection go the way of the film camera?Photograph by Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP “Today everything exists to end in a photograph,” Susan Sontag wrote in her seminal…

Melbourne cycling personality and track bike aficionado Andy White (of Fyxo.co) teaches us how to track stand. Check out our website at www.cyclingtips.com