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This Is Samsung’s Crazy New 128GB RAM Chip

This may look like a regular RAM chip, but oh my it packs a punch. This is the latest chunk of RAM to roll off Samsung’s production line—and it squeezes a giddying 128GB into its svelte little frame. The chip, designed for big enterprise servers, uses Samsung’s “through silicon via” manufacturing technique. That allows the…

Gadgets Jamie Condliffe Nov 26 '15

The Nation’s Thanksgiving Flights, Visualized

As many of you will have experienced in the last 24 hours, Thanksgiving is a busy time for the nation’s airlines. And that’s never more obvious than in this neat visualization of U.S. air traffic over the holiday. Put together by the guys at Upshot using data from Google Flights, it shows the dynamics of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Nov 26 '15

Fifty Years Ago Today France Launched Its First Satellite, Astérix

European Space History has just posted this awesome movie poster-like orange-blue launch photo of a historic space event that took place on November 26th way back in 1965. Fifty years ago, France launched its first satellite to low Earth orbit on a Diamant A rocket from the Joint Center for Special Weapons Testing of Hammaguir,…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy Nov 26 '15

There’s a New Raspberry Pi That Only Costs $5

Raspberry Pi has been making small, affordable computers for a while now, but it’s just gone and made things insanely cheap. Its latest miniature computer, the Pi Zero, will cost just $5. The miniature board—it measures just 65mm x 30mm x 5mm—is intended to make it even easier to provide people all around the world…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Nov 26 '15

Report: Amazon to Add Other Online Video Services to Prime Video

Amazon is planning to provide its Prime Instant Video members with access to other online, on-demand TV and movie services, alongside its usual original and licensed content, according to a new report. Bloomberg Business cites “people with knowledge of the plans” in reporting that “Prime customers will have the option of adding other online subscriptions…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe Nov 26 '15

How Banks Use Machine Learning to Know a Crook’s Using Your Credit Card Details

You’re sitting at home minding your own business when you get a call from your credit card’s fraud detection unit asking if you’ve just made a purchase at a department store in your city. It wasn’t you who bought expensive electronics using your credit card – in fact, it’s been in your pocket all afternoon.…

Privacy & Security Jungwoo Ryoo Nov 26 '15

American Asteroid Mining Is Now Fully Legal

No one has managed to pluck valuable minerals from an asteroid quite yet, but when they do, the legal framework will be firmly in place: earlier today, President Obama signed the US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (CSLCA) into law. The bill deals with a few aspects of space travel: it extends America’s commitment to…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills Nov 26 '15

Airbus Crazy Patent Watch: Detachable Cabins Edition

Airbus’s notable patents from the last few years reads like a list of failed aerospace Kickstarters: standing-room-only aircraft, bicycle saddles instead of real seats, or VR headsets to escape the awful reality of coach. Is it possible to go more ambitious? Airbus’s R&D department says yes. A patent filed in 2013 but approved yesterday (and…

Tech News Chris Mills Nov 25 '15

Facebook Might Have Just Fixed the Apple TV’s Dumb Login System

Logging into apps on the new Apple TV currently involves entering a password with an onscreen keyboard, a process that makes the TSA look organized and efficient. It’s Apple’s screwup, but Facebook might have just come to the rescue. https://gizmodo.com/new-apple-tv-review-is-this-it-1740643958 Facebook’s new Login SDK has support for a login method that doesn’t require you to…

Tech News Chris Mills Nov 25 '15

Hung Wankenstein is the Frankenstein Remake You Actually Need

We’re still bummed that Victor Frankenstein turned out to be kind of a dud. But at least there’s always Hung Wankenstein, which has one of the funniest titles of any porn spoof ever. In the scene above, Dr. Wankenstein has just attached a monster-sized penis to his creation. And he’s tried to shock the creature…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Nov 25 '15

Why It’s So Hard to Change American Minds About Refugees

Fleeing violence and starvation in their native country, the refugees arrived in their new home only to be ridiculed in the press, subject to overt racism, and faced with persecution in their places of worship. Sound like recent headlines? This was actually the reality for the first Irish refugees to come to the US. It…

Tech News Alissa Walker Nov 25 '15

How Astronauts Cook Their Thanksgiving Meal in Space

Being an astronaut is cool as hell for 364 days of the year. The one day that it kind of sucks when you’re an astronaut? Thanksgiving. Astronauts can’t enjoy all the food of Thanksgiving because of that damned zero gravity and those dehydrated food things. But at least they get to have some turkey. Here’s…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 25 '15

Field Guides We Wish We Had

Over at Bird and Moon, naturalist Rosemary Mosco has created a small booklist of field guides that will never exist. But we wish they did! Mosco has worked with the National Parks Service and Audobon Society, and shares her love of science with the world via comics, workshops, and nature walks. Be sure to check…

Tech News Annalee Newitz Nov 25 '15

These Videos Show You A Part of Flies You’ve Probably Never Noticed Before

You may have seen halteres on flies, but you probably didn’t know what you were seeing. They’re the odd little twig-like extensions behind the fly’s wings. These up-close videos give you a much better look, so you’ll always notice from now on. Flies live in a dizzying world. They can crawl across a table, up…

Biology Esther Inglis-Arkell Nov 25 '15

I wish the night sky shined and sparkled like this over every city in real life

Light pollution. It really screws up the view. It would be so great if the stars in the sky could still be seen over big metropolitan areas. But it doesn’t work like that. You have to go far away from civilization into deserts and nature to see the stars and cosmos the way they are…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 25 '15

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is Rated PG-13, Which Is Kind Of A Surprise

The director of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams, recently said he wanted the movie to be “delightful.” And it very may well be, but it’s also going to be dark. The MPAA has given the film a PG-13 rating, only the second time it’s happened in franchise history. The Force Awakens is rated…

io9 Germain Lussier Nov 25 '15

The UK Has Its Very First Professor of Comics

There are many university-level art and literature courses that revolve around the history and creation of comic books—but Lancaster University in England has just hired the first Professor in the country to specifically teach comics. And surprisingly, he has an even cooler title than “Professor of Comics” on his resume. Benoit Peeters, a French graphic…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Nov 25 '15

A Thanksgiving Tragedy and Its Messy Aftermath Ripped This Family Apart

Murder and mayhem can happen any time of year—even during the holidays (for some, especially during the holidays). For one Florida family, Thanksgiving joy turned to the ultimate horror. And it didn’t end there. “I have been waiting 20 years to do this,” 35-year-old Paul Merhige was overheard muttering amid a shooting rampage that killed…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy Nov 25 '15

Why Did the Turkey Stop Being Sacred?

Centuries ago, humans didn’t eat turkeys—we revered them. But around the mid-1000s, Puebloan peoples of the American Southwest started roasting the sacred bird. What happened? It’s a mystery North American archaeologists have puzzled over for years. As a fascinating Science News article explains, the turkey was held in high esteem by the people inhabiting the…

Tech News Maddie Stone Nov 25 '15

This video explains the easiest way to win at tic tac toe

It’s rather simple if you have the first move. Put your mark in one corner and depending on your opponent’s next move, put your mark on another corner and you’ll be perfectly set up for a win. So for example, if you put your first mark on the bottom left hand corner and they put…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 25 '15

This Is Samsung’s Crazy New 128GB RAM Chip

The Nation’s Thanksgiving Flights, Visualized

Fifty Years Ago Today France Launched Its First Satellite, Astérix

There’s a New Raspberry Pi That Only Costs $5

Report: Amazon to Add Other Online Video Services to Prime Video

How Banks Use Machine Learning to Know a Crook’s Using Your Credit Card Details

American Asteroid Mining Is Now Fully Legal

Airbus Crazy Patent Watch: Detachable Cabins Edition

Facebook Might Have Just Fixed the Apple TV’s Dumb Login System

Hung Wankenstein is the Frankenstein Remake You Actually Need

Why It’s So Hard to Change American Minds About Refugees

How Astronauts Cook Their Thanksgiving Meal in Space

Field Guides We Wish We Had

These Videos Show You A Part of Flies You’ve Probably Never Noticed Before

I wish the night sky shined and sparkled like this over every city in real life

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is Rated PG-13, Which Is Kind Of A Surprise

The UK Has Its Very First Professor of Comics

A Thanksgiving Tragedy and Its Messy Aftermath Ripped This Family Apart

Why Did the Turkey Stop Being Sacred?

This video explains the easiest way to win at tic tac toe

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