Remember those Quadrotor bots we featured a few months ago? Well one of them, Quadrotor overlord “Echo”, took some time off her busy schedule to play a little something for us for the holidays. Enjoy! A few new videos have also been released since the last time we featured these guys. Here are a few:
Skype says it has restored service to around 10 million customers, leaving up to 15 million more still unable to sign in. The company notes that even those who do get back online may find that it takes time after signing to show up as “online”, and instant messaging might not be quite so instant. […]
Hopefully, computers will be able to generate graphics that look this good in just a few years. [Via Reddit]
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Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and Flight Engineers Cady Coleman of NASA and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency offered Christmas and New Year’s greetings to all people on Earth from the orbital outpost on Dec. 21 as they flew 224 statute miles above our planet.
Don’t forget to leave your brains and cookies out for Santa! Because here are some zombies whose naughty lists you definitely don’t want to be on. Mark this one under “things I inexplicably found a lot of on Flickr” category. Zombie Santa is a popular costume, apparently – who knew! _lisamarie_ (CC)
Every geek knows that the original Star Wars Christmas Special really sucked, so here’s a new version to replace the bad memory that the show left into your mind. Enjoy!
The nature vs nurture debate is one of science’s longer-running questions, and it doesn’t seem likely it will be settled any time soon. But a newly-published study shows the issue isn’t confined to the human race. Sonya Kahlenberg of Bates College, Maine, and Richard Wrangham of Harvard University have published an article in Current Biology […]
In the following video, Bill Hammack of engineerguy.com reveals how “queueing theory” – originally developed by engineers to route phone calls – can be used to design efficient check out lines, and why, in stores with non optimized lines, the other lines always seem to move faster. Previously on [GaS]: How Quartz Watches Work: The […]
First, there were these awesome Star Wars paper snowflakes, and then a few days later, a cylon version appeared online. Now, just in time for Christmas, here comes a cool predator-themed one, for the joy and pleasure of all sci-fi geeks worldwide. [Via Geekologie]