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Microsoft Forgot To Fix One Major Thing in Windows 10

There’s been exactly one thing keeping me from buying a Windows laptop for the last three years: Windows sucks at handling high-resolution displays in small laptops. To be clear, this is not some problem with how Windows handles big high-resolution displays — my 27” 2560×1440 screen at home is proof it does that just fine.…

Japan Is a Sunkissed Paradise In This 4K Drone Footage 

Summer’s zooming by. Wish you could teleport from your cubicle to a sandbar in turquoise waters? Well, there’s no Hyperloop yet—but thankfully, drone-shot 4K movies of Japanese paradise can make you feel like you’re there. YouTube user egawauemon is known for beautiful, hi-def videos of scenes in Japan, and this latest one was shot by…

Will Suicide Squad Tell Harley Quinn’s Origin Story From the Comics?

Netflix wants a new season of a Marvel show to arrive every six months. A sneak peek at the next season of Doctor Who is coming to theaters. Plus new pictures from Deadpool and Batman v Superman, and new footage from The Man From UNCLE. To me, my Spoilers! Suicide Squad A stunt double stand-in…

How These Ants Carry a Whole Cheerio Back to Base

Take a moldy Cheerio. Add a team of longhorn crazy ants and… suddenly you no longer have a moldy Cheerio. So how do they manage to make off with it so efficiently given they’re notoriously disorganized? In fact, that’s exactly what a paper just published in Nature Communications set out to discover. These particular ants…

New 3D XPoint Storage Will Be 1,000 Times Faster Than Current SSDs

Think your solid state drive is blazing fast? Then prepare to be amazed by the new storage system being proposed by Intel and Micron, which promises speeds that are one thousand times faster than current NAND Flash memory. The new type of memory, called 3D XPoint and pronounced cross-point, is said to be 1,000 times…

Check These 5 Settings After Installing Windows 10

You’ve taken the plunge and got Microsoft’s brand new operating system up and running on your machine—now what? Before you start familiarizing yourself with the ins and outs of the software, take a tour around these five settings and make sure Windows 10 is working the way you want. Activate (or deactivate) Cortana Microsoft’s digital…

What’s the oldest seed you’ve successfully sprouted? Robert Krulwich has done a round-up of seeds that made the unlikely journey through time, from lost seed packets that were found when they sprouted to the oldest-known sprouting seed: A 2,000 year old date palm that’s already produced a fruit.

London’s Crazy Olympic Park Tower Is Being Turned Into a Giant Slide

Anish Kapoor’s Orbit Tower, built to somehow celebrate the Olympics and give people a reason to visit East London once the event finished, is getting a reworking. It’s being turned into an enormous helter skelter, in possibly one of the greatest public planning decisions in millennia. The tower will eventually house a staggering 180m enclosed…

The Science of the Dad Bod

Does a woman’s pregnancy affect the weight of her partner? And is weight gain sustained while the kids grow up? Anecdotally, many people would undoubtedly say yes from their own experiences. Lack of sleep, less time for exercise, and having a cheeky bite of junk food with the kids all add up in a serious…

Syfy has ordered thirteen episodes of Blood Drive, from a script by James Roland under the supervision of John Hlavin. The show follows L.A.’s “last good cop” forced to join a death race where cars run on blood as fuel. Sounds intense. [Deadline]

Moving the Most Powerful Space Telescope’s Mirror Is a Terrifying Job

Don’t drop it! In this picture you can see a team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Calibration, Integration and Alignment Facility moving the James Webb Space Telescope’s mirror. Slipping isn’t an option. The mirrors built for the telescope — which will be the most powerful space telescope ever built — are rather special. Over…

How It Felt to Work at Bell Labs in the 60s

Just 45 miles outside New York City in Murray Hill, New Jersey sits Bell Labs: the birth place of lasers, transistors, cellphones and many other modern technologies. In this video, Professor Brian Kernighan remembers what it was like to work there. Kernighan joined the labs in the late 60s, at a time when computer science…

Mark Hamill Will Voice the Joker One More Time for The Killing Joke Film

Mark Hamill will always be the Joker we want and deserve. This time, he’s back for an animated direct-to-video version of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s The Killing Joke. To be honest, can anyone else really fill his shoes for that famous a story? At this point, Hamill’s career as the Joker is like a…

The World’s Most Powerful Laser Has Been Fired in Japan

Take cover: scientists from Osaka University have begun using the world’s most powerful laser, that pumps out 2 quadrillion watts. That’s 2,000,000,000,000,000 watts. But don’t panic too much. While such a laser in continous use would demand more power than the world could feasibly supply to it, the device in fact only runs for one…

How Long Will It Be Until You Can Get an Anti-Aging Pill?

Last month a team of doctors and scientists made the case to regulators at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to consider approving anti-aging drugs as a new pharmaceutical class. Such a designation would treat aging as disease rather than a natural process, potentially opening the door to government funding for anti-aging drug trials. To…

These Mugs Will Remind You That Life Can Always Be Worse

At $215,000 of a $25,000 goal, with a little less than three days left in the Kickstarter, Don Moyer has added mugs to his Calamityware line. These are called “Things-Could-Be-Worse” mugs. And boy are they: giant frogs, robots, pteranodons… It’s a pretty thorough collage of the rest of the Calamityware line, which keeps itself to…

The Windows 7 Upgrade to Windows 10 Isn’t So Scary After All

Upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7 is not quite as seamless as the move from Windows 8.1, but it’s close. You get to keep your applications and settings, and the process is simple and leaves you almost no chance to accidentally delete all your apps and data. I liked Windows 7—so much that I…

Qualcomm’s Wireless Charging Just Got Better

Rezence, Qualcomm’s horse in the wireless charging standards war, just got a neat upgrade: it will now work in phones with metal backs. In case you haven’t been keeping track, because you’re too busy watching paint dry, grass grow, or any other far more interesting activity, this is what’s up in the wireless charging game:…

You’ve Got Graboids: The First Trailer for Tremors 5: Bloodlines

Oh yay, yay, yay. Judging from this trailer, Tremors 5 is exactly what we want from this franchise. Which, let’s be honest, is mostly Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) and his sass. Tremors — all four other movies and the TV show — basically revolves around surviving and eliminating (through much explosions) infestations of giant worms…

Windows 10 Meta Review: Download It, In A Month Or Two

You can now go get Windows 10 (if you registered for the update months ago, and if Microsoft has rolled it out to your PC yet). But should you? Let’s let the collective wisdom of the internet decide. Reviews of software like Windows have a habit of being polarizing. Some people love the new touch…