During today’s opening keynote at the World Wide Developer’s Conference, Apple listed nine automakers that are set to bring Siri into cars within the next year.
A single slide showing a BMW dashboard with an iPhone mounted front and center illustrated the “Eyes Free& … Read More → "Apple Siri integration coming to 9 automakers"
Heading off to work on a rain-soaked bike is unpleasant, and paying for an expensive apartment with a car-sized garage is even moreso. So Japanese architects have designed the perfect compromise—an apartment complex that integrates a compact motorcycle garage into each unit.
via Gizmodo
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Most of the fathers I know actually have very little in common with Demographic Dad. You know the guy I’m talking about, right? About five-nine, one-eighty? Likes big-screen TVs, neckties, and golf clubs? Largely an invention of greeting card publishers and retail marketing directors? Yeah, that guy. Between you and me, honestly, I don’t like him very much. In fact, he seems like kind of a doofus.
Fortunately, my real-life Dad is way cooler. He’s practical, mostly, but can cut loose and appreciate a gag gift, or one … Read More → "Top 10: easy DIY gifts my dad would dig"
… Read More → "Special solar cells produce electricity from underwater sunlight"Although solar cells are proving indispensable for powering things such as electronic sensors on dry land, sensors located underwater have typically had to rely on batteries, or electricity piped in from photovoltaic panels situated above the surface. That could be changing, however, as scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have recently developed functioning underwater solar cells.
via Gizmag
A NASA team, led by a leading biologist from Stanford University, have found an phytoplankton bloom under the Arctic ice. The team believe that is a side effect caused by major changes in Arctic ecosystems as the planet warms. The discovery was made by the 2011 NASA-sponsored ICESCAPE expedition under the Chukchi Sea, and it has caused … Read More → "NASA team discovers massive algal bloom under Arctic ice"
Physicists at the CERN laboratory have put the final nail in the coffin for the idea that neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light. They also confirmed that the groundbreaking results from 2011 can be blamed on faulty equipment.
Back in September 2011, a team of particle physicists detected neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light as they travelled from CERN to the Gran Sasso lab. They smashed the universal speed … Read More → "It’s official: neutrinos can’t beat speed of light"
A musical celebration of the importance and inspirational qualities of space exploration (human and robotic), as well as a look at some of the amazing worlds in our solar system. Featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Cox, and Carolyn Porco.
“Onward to the Edge” is the 12th installment in the Symphony of Science series.
An original World War II Enigma machine is to be used to encrypt messages that will be decoded at Bletchley Park, as part of Cheltenham Science Festival.
GCHQ said it would be the first time the public had the chance to encrypt messages on an original Enigma machine.
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The Large Hadron Collider is a beacon of all that’s great about science and engineering—but that doesn’t mean it always works properly. In fact, the facility is so sensitive that even the moon’s gravitational pull affects how well it operates.
Over at Quantum Diaries, the LHC’s Pauline Gagnon explains that the changing gravitational forces exerted by the moon—which are what drives the tides—cause tiny shifts … Read More → "The Large Hadron Collider is so sensitive it’s affected by the Moon"
When we envision our transhumanist future, it’s a little more profound than simply adding a sixth finger… but we suppose you’ve gotta start somewhere. Instructables user and employee Frenzy gave himself a rather primitive extra digit as part of a project for an Electronics and Robotics class at San Francisco State University. Sadly he doesn’t provide step-by-step instructions for building your own cyborg appendage, but it doesn’t … Read More → "DIY cyborg appendage is less exciting than it sounds"
