Tesla's Elon Musk has revealed his plan to sell huge batteries for homes and businesses, and it could change how we consume energy.
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Tesla reveals battery packs for homes and cities
Powerwall for home, Powerpacks for anything, because 'no incremental CO2 is the future we need to have'
Elon Musk has revealed Tesla's long-expected battery products and proclaimed they put an end to humanity's production of carbon dioxide as a by-product of energy generation.…
TSA: photo of real gun hidden in a toy police officer kit
According to the Transportation Security Administration's Instagram, back in 2012 "a traveler at the Jacksonville International Airport (JAX) placed his firearm in a toy police officer kit.
CHEATER! Test labs out AV vendor for using rival's engine
'They made me do it!' Qihoo cries
Chinese anti-virus vendor Qihoo 360 has been caught cheating on benchmarking tests by submitting versions running A-V engines from rival Bitdefender.…
Lo-Fi Let's Play: Life & Death
As a child, I dreamed of becoming a surgeon, thanks to 1988's Life & Death -- before Surgeon Simulator or Trauma Center, this awkward, deathly-serious medical game gave me the idea that I should volunteer to practice appendectomies on the other third-graders.
Facebook bug gobbles pics in posts, web publishers scream
Developers grumpy as clickbait shorn of pics and their pulling power
Facebook users are complaining that The Social NetworkTM is experiencing a problem that stops people posting pictures.…
April 30, 1975: The Fall of Saigon, and the end of the Vietnam War, 40 years ago today.
Forty years ago today, North Vietnamese troops captured Saigon, ending a war that lasted thirty years.
Puppy has hiccups but does not understand what hiccups are so he barks
From Matthew Kennelly.
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Who thinks Microsoft Edge SUCKS? Microsoft
Redmond swoops on web after launch of Internet Explorer's replacement
Microsoft relaunched Internet Explorer this week as Edge – and the software giant is already prepared to accept that the new browser may absolutely suck.…
HOWTO make headphones out of old bullets
Got some extra .40 cal casings kicking around and want to cosplay the scene in the Dark Tower books where the gunslingers stick bullets in their ears to block out the siren call of the "thinny?"
This awkwardly presented GIF HOWTO's got you covered.
HOW “I” IS OUR “A”? NOT VERY.
Though some people like to sound the alarm of impending world domination by robots, scientists who actually work on artificial intelligence — and know exactly how hard it is to create AI that can do even one narrowly defined task well — assure us that we’re safe for the foreseeable future. Watch and listen as […]
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RIP NASA's Messenger Mercury probe: See ya later, alien crater
Craft slams into planet at 8,000 MPH, but we won't see the hole for a while, crocodile
Pic After 11 years of operation, NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (Messenger) spacecraft has smashed into the planet Mercury at 3.9km per second (8,724 MPH) – creating the first human-made crater on the alien world.…
The 8 Weirdest GIFs From the Weirdest Baseball Game Ever
While MLB’s decision to play the game amid civil unrest is problematic, there were just too many weird moments not to chronicle them.
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Confidential information exposed over 300 times in ICANN security snafu
But it's your fault for looking, cries inept internet overlord
Two months after claiming there was "no indication" that confidential information was exposed in a security cock-up, domain name overseer ICANN has admitted it happened on at least 330 occasions.…
Rubella Eliminated From The Americas, Thanks To MMR Vaccine
First we wiped out smallpox in North and South America. Then we rid the Americas of polio. Now, for the third time, the Americas are the first region in the world to eliminate yet another disease through vaccines: rubella. After 15 years of a widespread vaccination campaign with the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) [...]
Third Explosive Eruption at Chile’s Calbuco
Calbuco in Chile has its third explosion eruption in a week.
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Big Blue, Apple to foist fondleslabs on elderly and vulnerable Japanese
They're coming for that sweet, sweet health data. Buy more meds! From us!
Apple and IBM have teamed up again, announcing that they plan to foist five million iPads on unsuspecting seniors in Japan over the next five years.…
Stunning Snowy Landscapes from the Edge of the Earth
Camille Michel captures the surreal beauty of a community on the edge of civilization.
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The World's Best New Universities 2015
We all know the schools that come out on top in world university rankings: Harvard, Yale, MIT and a smattering of venerable British institutions like Oxford and Cambridge. American institutions always dominate the rosters. But adventurous American and British students open to a challenging international experience should consider a list [...]
An Atlas of the Bacteria and Fungi We Breathe Every Day
Citizen scientists helped construct the first atlas of airborne bacteria and fungi across the US.
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Comment Is Weird: A Tumblog of Greatness that parodies The Guardian's 'Comment Is Free'
Every single one of these is a gem.
Comment Is Weird. It's a parody of the Guardian's Comment is Free.
This Digital Wallet Could Finally Get You Into Bitcoin
Circle wants to get everyone, including non-geeks, using bitcoin. To get them on board, it's now dealing in dollars as well as digital currency.
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Play games like Oregon Trail or SimCity inside your own tweets
Bulging booty bird Kim Kardashian date game biz adds Britney Spears to bottom line
Tencent gets more junk in its trunk with Glu acquisition
Chinese social network Tencent has agreed to buy 14.6 per cent of mobile game developer Glu Mobile for $126m.…
Stop the Hysteria. Of Course Europe Wants an Open Internet
The European Union and the United States have been friends and allies for decades. Our economies and our societies are so tightly intertwined that creating artificial divides and walls is not only practically difficult but potentially extremely damaging for both of us. And yet, listening to some of the recent commentary around the high-tech sector, […]
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