Artist Ilana M. Schwartz is a full time animator at Nickelodeon Animation Studios, but during her spare time, she likes to illustrate coffee cups and put them online for the world to admire. Here’s a few of our favorite pieces, but she has plenty of others on here instagram page, @javadoodles.
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Meter is the standard unit of length used by most countries around the world. But how did they define it? Watch this episode of Scishow to find out!
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Verizon has joined the other major carriers in bringing back an “unlimited” mobile data plan. But as so often, there’s some big caveats.
The new plan is $80 a month and covers unlimited voice calls, texts and data use on one line in the US, as well as 500MB of data while visiting Canada. Customers can also add additional lines to the unlimited deal for $45. Verizon says it’s upgraded and tweaked its networks to cope with any increase in usage.
The big caveat is that there’s a soft limit of 22GB a month. Customers who use more than this won’t automatically have their connection throttled, but rather will get a lower priority for usage “in the event of network congestion.” Verizon says this shouldn’t happen very often.
Another restriction is that customers can only tether their connections to other devices at the full 4G LTE speed for 10GB a month, after which the tethering will still work but will reduce to 3G speeds. There’s also a $5 a month additional fee if you don’t agree to paperless billing and automated payment from your bank account or card.
Depending on how much data you use each month, these might be the least bad of the restrictions that carriers place on what they bill as unlimited deals. The AT&T offering requires that you also subscribe to a cable or satellite TV package, while the Sprint and T-Mobile plans automatically reduce the bitrate on streaming video to the equivalent of standard definition TV.
Meet Cassie, a bepidal robot created by the folks over at Agility Robotics, a startup that comes from the College of Engineering at Oregon State University.
“This robot capability will free people from weekend shopping chores, reduce energy use, and give consumers more time to do the things they want to do. It effectively brings efficient automated logistics from state-of-the-art warehouses out and into the rest of the world.”
Nerdist Comedy Shorts just released Bat Blood, a parody of Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” music video.
From Nerdist: “Catwoman’s got bat blood, so now she’s getting the gang together to take out Batman in this Taylor Swift parody.” The video is a clever and witty take on the setting, with Batman’s rogues gallery teaming up to give the Bat a taste of his own medicine. It’s definitely worth watching, and we can only hope Nerdist decides to give us more soon.
So we are close to the Kong: Skull Island release date, and the closer it gets, the more hype seems to grow about the new Kong flick. With a great cast, a bigger version of King Kong than we have ever seen, and what looks to be some pretty sick action scenes, Kong: Skull Island could be one of the more fun trips to the movies this year.
That said, IGN made one giant video of all the trailers mashed up so you can see the best this film has to offer and decide if Kong: Skull Island is a place you wanna visit (cinematically) or not this year.
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Valentines Day is here, and for all you chocolate lovers out there, we put dark and milk chocolate together in an end all be all faceoff. Which of these deliciously and potentially healthful treats will come out as the greatest? Only the chemistry thunder dome will tell…