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Ambitious Finnish Artists Create a GIF That Lasts 1,000 Years

If you pride yourself on patience, you’re going to love this new art project in Helsinki. Its creators, Finnish artist Juha van Ingen and developer Janne Särkelä, made an animated GIF that takes 1,000 years to play. It’s called “As Long as Possible.” That’s the last of the GIF’s 48,140,288 frames above. The artists plan…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Which Is a Better TV Screen, LCD or OLED?

It’s an age-old question, like cats or dogs, Kirk or Picard, PlayStation or Xbox? All tough questions with equally tough answers, and the same can be said for LCD versus OLED televisions. An impressive new generation of TVs with the very latest advanced display technologies launching in 2015 include the newest state-of-the-art large screen OLED…

Gadgets Dr. Raymond Soneira - DisplayMate Technologies

10 Tricks to Master Apple Mail on iOS

Apple’s mobile email client has been designed with simplicity in mind, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some useful tips and tricks to be found if you look closely enough. A few of the tips we’ve mentioned here only apply to the new iOS 9 software Apple rolled out last week, but some of them…

Gadgets David Nield

This Popular and Super Futuristic 3D Printer Is Now Also Easy To Use

3D printers don’t need help sounding futuristic. They take digital content and make it physical in a 3D space. People have used the term Star Trek’s “Replicator” as a distant scifi descendent of 3D printers more times than I can count. But no 3D printer seems quite as future as the Form printer, which uses…

Tech News Darren Orf

Microsoft’s New Band Looks Much More Wearable

Microsoft’s super huge, Oct. 6 hardware event is quickly approaching, and while Windows enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting new Lumia smartphones and an upgrade to the apparently successful Surface Pro lineup, Microsoft’s black sheep, the Band, could bring with it a few surprises of its own. Technology is filled with all kinds of rumors and speculation…

Tech News Darren Orf

Simple Collections of Gold Nanoparticles Can Develop Computational Abilities

We’re used to thinking of silicon as being the go-to material in computer architecture. But now a team of scientists has shown that a random assembly of cold nanoparticles can evolve to perform computational tasks too. A team of researchers from the University of Twente in the Netherlands has been experimenting with tiny gold particles…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

You Can Now Order Starbucks via Mobile, Anywhere in the U.S.

For a while now, Starbucks has been trialling a service that allows you to order from an app and then skip the line when you pick up your purchase. Now, that service is being rolled out across the U.S.. Spiced pumpkin lattes all round! The coffee chain has announced that, from today, anyone can use…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

4 Billion People Are Still Without Internet

The United Nations’ Broadband Commission has published a new report whose headline finding is that 57 percent of the human population — or around 4.2 billion people — will still not have access to the internet by the end of 2015. Geographical location obviously plays a huge role in the prevalence of internet access. In…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Stephen Colbert on Hillary Clinton’s Social Media Campaign

Many of the presidential candidates are doing the best they can to interact with millennials, especially on Twitter — but none of them seems to be working as hard on it as Hilary Clinton. This clip from the Late Show takes a look at her social media strategy, which mainly seems to involve… emoji. “Can…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

New Coating Radiates Heat to Keep Solar Cells Cool—and More Efficient

Solar cells suffer a strange problem: the hotter they get as the sun pours down on them, the less efficient they become at converting light into electricity. But now a team of Stanford researchers have developed a new transparent coating that can help them keep a little cooler—and more efficient. The new coating is based…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How Low-Tech Farming Innovation Can Make African Farmers Climate-Resilient

Scientists, politicians and the Pope are not the only ones calling for action on climate change these days. Farmers are observing changes in rainfall, temperature and other patterns in weather that have spurred them into shifting their farming methods. In fact, while climate change is not a source of scientific contention, how to farm in…

Tech News Rachel Bezner Kerr - The Conversation

9 Things You Can Now Do With Apple Watch That You Couldn’t Before

With today’s launch of watchOS 2, Apple has brought a whole new lease of life to its pretty little wrist ‘puter. Here’s the most interesting things you can now do with your $800 wearable square of technology. Use Apps Apple Didn’t Make With watchOS 2, Apple is hoping to do what it did for the…

Tech News Chris Mills

The New Google Wallet App is an Absurdly Easy Way to Send People Your Money

Previously, Google Wallet was some kind of hybrid payment system that few people understood, and fewer used. The newly revamped Wallet — now available on iOS — is meant to do just one thing: send money to other people with minimal hassle. Download the new Wallet app on iOS or Android, add a debit card…

Tech News Chris Mills

10 awesome bloopers that actually made it into the final cut of the movie

There is so much preparation that goes into a movie and so many takes captured of any given scene and so much work that goes into the camera work and so much practice for the performances but yet, things don’t always go as planned. Mistakes happen, lines are forgotten, and bloopers are created. But sometimes…

Sploid Casey Chan

This Is What a Road Bike Might Look Like, If There Were No Design Rules

People don’t often realize it, but the design of every high-end bicycle is shaped, one way or another, by the governing body of bike racing, the Union Cycliste Internationale. This is what bikes might look like if their rulebook didn’t exist. The UCI has a famously stringent set of rules about the design of bikes…

Tech News Chris Mills

What happens to your body one hour after eating a Big Mac?

When you first bite into a Big Mac, it is absolutely glorious. The two patties sandwiching the chewy bread in the middle with the lovely thousand island sauce mixing in with the pickles and lettuce, the taste is iconic. Add in fries and a sip of Coke in between bites and you have reached Fast…

Sploid Casey Chan

How many gun shots and what caliber of bullet does it take to actually bust open a lock?

We see it in movies all the time, somebody needs to get passed a locked door? Shoot up that pad lock with your gun and boom, you’re clear on the other side. But does that actually work in real life? Demolition Ranch attempted to find out with different guns and different bullet calibers and a…

Sploid Casey Chan

Symantec Issues Rogue EV Certificate for Google.com

On Friday, Google reported on its online security blog the faulty issuance of a certificate for google.com and www.google.com by Symantec, a prominent Certificate Authority. This misissuance is significant not only because it represents a breach in the core Internet trust mechanism; it was also the first of its kind with regards to the type…

Privacy & Security Bill Budington -- EFF

What’s The Most Useless Piece of Tech That You Own?

It’s probably gathering dust on your shelf or in a nearby drawer. I have an elderly digital video camera stashed in a bin with the winter sweaters. I enjoy taking videos at musician friends’ shows, and there was a time before phone cameras improved when it was essential to have a dedicated photography machine. Now…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Apple Created a New Emoji But Nobody Knows Why

The world demands an emoji for every occasion, but soon, lovers of eyeballs and speech bubbles will finally get their day. It appears that Apple is about to release a mysterious new emoji. That’s it above. Weird, huh? It’s actually pretty clever. Jeremy Burge, the founder of Emojipedia, just spotted the new emoji character in…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Ambitious Finnish Artists Create a GIF That Lasts 1,000 Years

Which Is a Better TV Screen, LCD or OLED?

10 Tricks to Master Apple Mail on iOS

This Popular and Super Futuristic 3D Printer Is Now Also Easy To Use

Microsoft’s New Band Looks Much More Wearable

Simple Collections of Gold Nanoparticles Can Develop Computational Abilities

You Can Now Order Starbucks via Mobile, Anywhere in the U.S.

4 Billion People Are Still Without Internet

Stephen Colbert on Hillary Clinton’s Social Media Campaign

New Coating Radiates Heat to Keep Solar Cells Cool—and More Efficient

How Low-Tech Farming Innovation Can Make African Farmers Climate-Resilient

9 Things You Can Now Do With Apple Watch That You Couldn’t Before

The New Google Wallet App is an Absurdly Easy Way to Send People Your Money

10 awesome bloopers that actually made it into the final cut of the movie

This Is What a Road Bike Might Look Like, If There Were No Design Rules

What happens to your body one hour after eating a Big Mac?

How many gun shots and what caliber of bullet does it take to actually bust open a lock?

Symantec Issues Rogue EV Certificate for Google.com

What’s The Most Useless Piece of Tech That You Own?

Apple Created a New Emoji But Nobody Knows Why

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VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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