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400 Football Fields Could Fit Inside Samsung’s New Semiconductor Complex

Samsung already makes the most smartphones in the world, but now the South Korean company is pushing to make the most semiconductors. Samsung just started constructing its own version of Silicon Valley, starting with $14 billion semiconductor complex larger than 400 football fields. The “Pyeongtaek Semiconductor Valley” is set to open in 2017, and will…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Video: The stunning wonder and beauty of Vietnam

Vietnam is one of my favorite places in the world because the country is just beautiful, the food is absolutely fantastic and the people are so kind. I’m also completely biased because that’s where my family is from. But still! Watch this video that tours the wonders of Vietnam and try and say you don’t…

Sploid Casey Chan

There’s a Good Chance Your Tinder Crush Is Seeing Someone Else

Technology is filled with all kinds of rumors, real and fabricated. It gives us a look at what might be and will be. BitStream gathers the whispers all in one place to divine what the future has in store. Tinder is the unchallenged king of dating apps. It’s swipe left/swipe right format is so popular,…

Tech News Darren Orf

You can easily customize this Lego-friendly tie to match any outfit

Nothing makes a party feel like a chore like having to dress formal for the occasion. But if a special occasion calls for a jacket and tie, swap this Bricky Blocks plastic studded alternative for your traditional silk noose and at least you’ll have something to play with—if you remember to bring along a handful…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A Terrifying Tale Of Greed, Copycat Schemes, And Cyanide-Laced Medicine

Nobody was ever convicted in the 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders. But in 1986, when two Seattle-area people died after ingesting Excedrin laced with cyanide, Stella Nickell was nabbed for the copycat crime; one of the victims was her husband. Nearly 30 years later, the case hasn’t gotten any less bizarre. The tale, chronicled in Gregg…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

Making a cube in a cube in a cube from one block of metal is impressive

There is probably some negotiation with the Earth’s magnetic poles or some sort of magic going on here because somehow this guy is able to make a cube inside a cube inside a cube from a metal block. I have no idea what’s going on in the video half the time but watching the block…

Sploid Casey Chan

Even An Android Would Cry At These Age Of Ultron Toys

Hot Toy’soddly adorable line of “Artist Mix” vinyl toys is back, and although there’s lots of cool looking stuff to be seen, let’s be real: The best of the bunch is the wonderful little vinyl Vision. Eschewing the company’s usual brand of jaw-droppingly lifelike (and ridiculously articulated) for a chunky Vinyl style, Hot Toy’s collaboration…

Tech News James Whitbrook

13 Years of Cloud-Watching Makes a Beautiful Visual of the Earth

This beautiful map shows an average of all of the available cloud observations from the Aqua satellite. The shades of blue represent the cloudiness of our planet. The visual is based on data acquired from July 2002 until April 2015, offering a top-down view that shows where the satellite’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer saw clouds…

Tech News Attila Nagy

BOOMco’s New Dartsplosion Fires 72 Rounds Ensuring Total Dart Supremacy

A lot of blaster fans were skeptical when Mattel decided it wanted a piece of Hasbro’s near-dominant marketshare; after all, we were all weened on Nerf weaponry. But the BOOMco line has so far delivered some impressive blasters, and its new 72-round Dartsplosion looks like it’s poised to snatch the crown from Nerf’s giant Rhino-Fire.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How to Use the Bento App for an Ultra-Personalized Android Home Screen

There are plenty of alternative Android launchers looking to replace your stock experience—Nova, Apex and Aviate among them—but Bento is designed to take on Google Now at what it does best: personalization. The launcher’s features include smart app sorting, prioritized notifications and embedded app information and here’s how to set it up. Right now Bento…

Gadgets David Nield

The Reason We Won’t Have Autonomous Cars Any Time Soon

Driving a car is easy. Engine on, eyes open, foot on the gas and you’re all set. So why is it taking autonomous cars so long to learn? Right now, a fleet of self-driving cars is cruising the roads of Mountain View daily—along with some smaller fleets of custom prototypes that Google’s also testing in…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Why Flies May Be the Future of Forensic Science

We still know very little about the insect species that colonise a cadaver. But the latest published study from Sibyl Bucheli’s lab at Sam Houston State University, Texas, suggests they are far more diverse than we had previously imagined. The study was led by Bucheli’s former PhD student Natalie Lindgren, who placed four cadavers on…

Tech News Mo Costandi

This Image Shows Just How Much Electron Microscopes Have Improved

Cryo-electron microscopes are used to understand the microscopic work in exquisite detail—but until now, they’ve struggled to capture images at the atomic and molecular level. That’s changing. A new paper, published in Science, reveals that researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, have been pushing the technique’s abilities to its limits.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

I Want to Walk All Over This Bright Blue Landscape

This is a picture of the northeast coast of South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. With no permanent residents, just imagine how fun it would be trek across its peaks. The island is, however, home to a number of glaciers dotted around its coast, which are studied by scientists that visit the island.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

You Can Now Order Takeout Directly From Google Search Results

Because ordering food already seemed too difficult, Google has decided to add a new tool to its search system which allows you to order takeout from restaurants straight from a page of results. When you search for nearby food joints, you should be able to select an option to “place an order.” That should whisk…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

A New Court Ruling Means That Privacy Doesn’t Require Secrecy

Did you just buy a shiny new smartphone loaded with the newest and greatest features to have conversations throughout the day, wherever you are? While your phone’s capabilities are distinctly modern, a new decision in United States v. Davis allowing police to get without a warrant records of which cell tower your phone connects to…

Privacy & Security Cindy Cohn and Hanni Fakhoury - EFF

A Fibonacci Clock Is Hands-Down The Nerdiest Timepiece

There are many possible ways to broadcast both the time and your level of nerdiness to the outside world. A Star Wars projection clock, for example. A watch that tells the time in binary also works. But far, far more effective than any of these is a bedside clock that uses the Fibonacci sequence. As…

Tech News Chris Mills

Windows 10 Will Spell The End Of Patch Tuesday

Since Windows 98, the second Tuesday of every month has seen Microsoft issue a slew of updates to eager users. With Windows 10, those days are going to come to an end: Microsoft will become a 24/7 update machine. Once (or sometimes twice) monthly updates make a lot of sense: make it easy for users…

Tech News Chris Mills

Surprise! Electrocuting Your Brain Does Not Make You Smarter

There’s a relatively well-known theory that applying an electric current to your head in just the right way can improve cognition. It’s popular with some scientists, internet DIYers, and students at 2AM before a final. But according to a new double-blind study, transcranial direct current stimulation makes you the opposite of clever. Scientists at the…

Tech News Chris Mills

The Future of Energy Is Hidden in the Guts of Insects

This presentation from Berkeley Lab scientist Javier Ceja-Navarro hints at a strange new future for agriculture and energy production. I’m willing to bet it’s like nothing that you ever imagined. Ceja-Navarro is one of many researchers at Berkeley Lab who are trying to use biological systems to create sustainable energy — in this case, biofuels.…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

400 Football Fields Could Fit Inside Samsung’s New Semiconductor Complex

Video: The stunning wonder and beauty of Vietnam

There’s a Good Chance Your Tinder Crush Is Seeing Someone Else

You can easily customize this Lego-friendly tie to match any outfit

A Terrifying Tale Of Greed, Copycat Schemes, And Cyanide-Laced Medicine

Making a cube in a cube in a cube from one block of metal is impressive

Even An Android Would Cry At These Age Of Ultron Toys

13 Years of Cloud-Watching Makes a Beautiful Visual of the Earth

BOOMco’s New Dartsplosion Fires 72 Rounds Ensuring Total Dart Supremacy

How to Use the Bento App for an Ultra-Personalized Android Home Screen

The Reason We Won’t Have Autonomous Cars Any Time Soon

Why Flies May Be the Future of Forensic Science

This Image Shows Just How Much Electron Microscopes Have Improved

I Want to Walk All Over This Bright Blue Landscape

You Can Now Order Takeout Directly From Google Search Results

A New Court Ruling Means That Privacy Doesn’t Require Secrecy

A Fibonacci Clock Is Hands-Down The Nerdiest Timepiece

Windows 10 Will Spell The End Of Patch Tuesday

Surprise! Electrocuting Your Brain Does Not Make You Smarter

The Future of Energy Is Hidden in the Guts of Insects

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