Keep a backup Nowadays, you really have no excuse for not backing up everything that’s on your computer and phone. The available backup and cloud storage apps are so comprehensive and easy to use that you barely have to do anything to update the spare copies of your data. What’s more, backups are your best protection against any accidental file deletion, not to mention other potential problems like ransomware. If you’re hit by such a mishap, don’t panic....
“With wood or metal, you can recycle it yourself,” he says. There are already consumer tools that can cut, bend, melt, and reconnect scraps of this material. The machines that process plastic for recycling, on the other hand, are not available in your average workshop. So Hakkens decided to design those machines himself. His Precious Plastic system includes four appliances: One chops up and shreds clean plastic refuse into scraps....
While it was possible to run queries like this before, it’s now much easier to do—just use the address bar at the top of the Google Chrome interface, now officially your one-stop shop for all your searching needs. These additions come in version 108 of Google Chrome for desktop, so if you don’t have this functionality yet, you may need to update your browser. You can check you’re running Chrome’s latest version by clicking the three dots (top right), then go to Help and About Google Chrome....
Apple Music on your computer Finally, Apple’s push for online music streaming has found it’s way to your desktop. And it’s very much in line with the redesign that Apple Music got in iOS 10. If you don’t have Apple Music already, you’ll need to get a subscription first: it costs $9.99 a month, $4.99 a month for students, and $14.99 a month for a family of up to 6 people, each with their own devices....
Visual Lookup and Live Text If you own an Apple device with the A12 Bionic or a newer chip inside (iPhones launched in 2018 or later, or iPads launched in 2019 or later) and it’s running the latest software, you can take advantage of two features called Visual Lookup and Live Text. These apps work like visual search tools, using the information coming in through your phone’s camera and adding some artificial intelligence-powered object recognition magic to figure out what’s currently in view....
Everything you upload to the internet has metadata attached to it. This is everything related to a file that’s not the content itself—format, what program it came from, its creation date, and sometimes even the name of its author. If sharing that potentially personal information makes you feel queasy, you’re not alone. The good news is you can delete that data before you share any file. How to remove metadata from any file using Windows Scrubbing files clean is easy on Microsoft’s operating system: You can use the same method across all types....
During a total lunar eclipse last year, astronomers trained the Hubble Space Telescope on our moon, which served as a giant lunar mirror. This marks the first time a space telescope captured a total lunar eclipse, and the exercise may even help us track down life elsewhere in the universe. Unlike a total solar eclipse, when the moon slides between the sun and the Earth, it’s our planet that saunters between the sun and the moon during a total lunar eclipse....
Since the 1950s, coastal communities have ordered evacuations to move people out of the paths of dangerous storms. Coastal residents also prepare by building homes elevated above anticipated high water levels, and building codes commonly call for reinforced construction to endure high wind speeds. Today, however, risk from hurricanes is extending inland. Some of the worst damage from Eastern Seaboard hurricanes in the past several decades has come from inland flooding along rivers after storms move ashore....
That’s what the CEO of the startup company Hyperloop Tech revealed during a presentation at Web Summit in Dublin last week, referring to the time and place (December 17, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina) when the Wright brothers achieved manned flight for a few seconds, forever chaging transportation as we know it. Now Lloyd and others like him in the tech innovation space are also seeking forever change transportation using the Hyperloop— high speed pods that levitate off tracks, offering an “on-demand” method of transportation....
The Iceman, otherwise known as Ötzi, is perhaps the most intensively studied mummy ever. Everything about him, his insides and his outsides, has been explored. The poor man has been x-rayed, poked, prodded, inspected, incised, and more. He’s one of the few individuals to have their genome sequenced in tremendous detail. But just when it seems that he’s given up all his secrets, he reveals another. Microbiologist Frank Maixner of the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Bolzano, Italy, and an international team of scientists have recently discovered and sequenced the DNA of an extinct strain of gut bacteria, scooped from the inside the Iceman....
Hi PPX Users, As per a discussion on the PPX forums (Please see the thread) regarding the stock PASSCRX, a decision has been made to halt this stock on Friday (9/26), and pay out at Pop$100. The spirit of this prop, and the wording in its closeout criteria, conflict, but the language is clear in stating “any other type of vehicle” in its closeout criteria… Users have identified a number of vehicles that do achieve a higher gas milage than the 1987 Honda Civic CRX....
Now that the Northern Hemisphere is entering flu season, scientists fear that the virus may come back with a vengeance, compounding the impact of conventional flu, which alone kills about 36,000 people in the U.S. annually. The trouble is that this H1N1 is so genetically different from traditional flu strains that our bodies have few defenses against it and ordinary flu vaccines are useless. What will the virus look like this winter?...
“I am ready to be the first human to be sent to space by Iranian scientists,” Ahmadinejad told a group of those scientists in Tehran. The state-run Mehr news agency reported the news this morning. “Sending living things into space is the result of Iranian efforts and the dedication of thousands of Iranian scientists,” he reportedly continued. The announcement came at an event marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, and a few days after Iran claimed to have successfully sent a monkey into space....
Richardson told NBC that she had used marijuana, which is legal in Oregon where the trials took place, as a way to cope with the surprise death of her biological mother, which occurred while she was at the Olympic trials. According to NBC, she found out about her mother’s death during an interview with a reporter. Marijuana, though legal in 18 states in the U.S., is on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of banned substances....
Yann Lhomme is the co-founder of ThinkMojo, a self-described “viewer experience agency.” Where other firms focus on user experience, or “UX”, design for text-based websites or standard apps, Lhomme’s team is focused entirely on video. He says that the rise of mini players—which began in earnest with Facebook’s floating desktop video pop-outs in 2015—have created a few practical challenges for designers. Right now, businesses and creatives must craft different iterations of their video content for different platforms....
Scheduled to launch in April 2023, JUICE will blast off from an Ariane 5 rocket before embarking on a 7.6-year journey to reach the gas giant. Broken up by multiple gravitational assists—or pushes that help adjust a spacecraft’s speed and trajectory—from Venus and Earth, the explorer will carry some of the most powerful remote sensing and geophysical instruments ever flown to the outer solar system. Last month, a 1:18 scale model of JUICE was employed at the ESA’s testing center in the Netherlands to try out one of the instruments, RIME, also known as the Radar For Icy Moons Exploration....
Vitamix Explorian Blender, Professional-Grade, 64 oz. Low-Profile Container $189 (was $384) The cheapest model in the sale offers 10 speeds controlled with a simple dial. It has everything you need without much fluff. It’s also self-cleaning, a process which takes under a minute. Vitamix Immersion Blender, Stainless Steel, 18 inches $99 (was $149) This 18-inch immersion blender is great for making sauces and other recipes that don’t lend themselves to time spent in a blender....
The team then used the model to analyze 78 other scans from works thought to be by Van Gogh and known copies, correctly weeding out some of the fakes. As their database increases in size and spans works from all periods in the artist’s life, they hope to create a digital fraud detector that will take most of the guess work out of the art historian’s job. “Through tackling these tough problems, we can advance the core technologies at the same time,” says Wang....
At MIT, a new project called CarTel hopes to solve this dilemma by using in-car sensors that monitor traffic and feed a continually updated stream of data to the CarTel team. In the future, a monitoring system linked directly to vehicles could help find alternate routes without relying on aggregated data from local traffic systems. “Bulk data typically covers only a small number of road segments, and typically only the major freeways,” says Hari Balakrishnan, an MIT professor in charge of the project....
