NASA has just released an amazing video exploring the effect of global warming on the Cryosphere, that part of our planet where water can be found in solid form for most of the year. The animation was built using high definition visuals coming from thousands of satellites and it looks absolutely fantastic. Check it out: […]
It’s fair to say the “red ring of death” is the most notorious hardware failure in the console industry of recent years. But a new study concludes that even if you throw out that specific problem, the Xbox 360 is still the most unreliable of today’s generation of consoles. According to SquareTrade (PDF), a whopping […]
It was 40 years ago today, September 2, 1969 that scientists connected two computers at UCLA with a 15-foot cable, and had the machines communicate with each other. The test data was meaningless, but the breakthrough eventually led to the formation of the internet. However, there were plenty of other milestones. Which date should we […]
In the following clip, The Mythbusters test if they can create a ‘creamer’ cannon using non-dairy creamer, compressed air, and a flare. Watch how they create one of the scariest-looking explosions ever on the show. And as they note at the end of the video, please don’t try this at home! :) [Via TechEblog]
In the following video, ‘E-Mom’ Gloria Bianco shows Today Now’s hosts Jim and Tracy how geographical distance is no longer a roadblock to shamelessly interfering with the lives of your children, thanks to online services such as Twitter and Facebook.
However cool these may look, do not try to build a hand-mountable flamethrower at home. Despite what the Black Sabbath lyrics say, you are not Iron Man. At the very least, this guy seems to know what he’s doing because he’s been working on other flamethrowing setups for a while now, including his his “Prometheus” […]
Yesterday we brought you news of how the iPhone can be used to fight crime (albeit crime that was provoked by the phone itself.) Today crime comes to the iPhone. Rockstar has announced it will be bringing its DS game Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars to the device via the iPhone app store. The company […]
I don’t know how one goes about finding these things, but someone noticed a weird source code for this page. It’s a very basic, unspectacular catalog page for Fujinon Binoculars. But take a look at the source code. This screenshot is but a tiny part of the madness. Keep scrolling down the code for the […]
For those of you who find the Windows task manager a little too light on features, we’ve got an awesome little application for you. Process Hacker does the same basic functions as task manager, but with lots of invaluable extras. Task manager only lists running processes, but Process Hacker allows you to investigate where these […]