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The luminescent bike path

In Poland, near Lidzbark Warminski, a new bike path was created that get bright at night after being charged by the sun during the day. The company who created the path tried to be as cost effective as possible, as the materials are more expensive than the materials used in tradicional bikelanes. The luminescente material […]

Wintergatan – Marble Machine

Martin Molin of the Swedish band Wintergatan has debuted his musical marble machine. It took more than two years to plan, build and tweaking the machine, but it sound amazingly.

The Zipf mystery

Vsauce published this video where he talks about the relationship between word usage ranking and the frequency they are used, as all as the relationship between Zipf’s Law and the Pareto Law and how the Zipf law works for so many things in the world and our live. An interesting video to see.

What if 3D printing was 100x faster?

Joseph DeSimone introduces a new method of 3D printing that is not only up to 100x faster than traditional 3D printing, but also don’t have most of the problems of the current 3D printing technology – the printed objects are not layered like with traditional printing and they can be printed with a wider variety of materials.

Will our kids be a different species?

In this TED Talk, Juan Enriquez talks about the evolution of the human species, and asks if our children will be of a different specie.

Dell starts to accept bitcoin

Dell announced that they are now accepting Bitcoins in their website, making them one of the biggest companies in the world to accept the digital currency. Their announcement is completed with a list of advices to all the bitcoin users about keeping their e-wallet secure, and a toturial on how to use the currency on […]

Dell starts to accept bitcoin

Dell announced that they are now accepting Bitcoins in their website, making them one of the biggest companies in the world to accept the digital currency. Their announcement is completed with a list of advices to all the bitcoin users about keeping their e-wallet secure, and a toturial on how to use the currency on […]

If Super Mario World had been released on an App Store

Games used to be fun. At some point in time games even had an option to save the current progress so that you could later come back and restart the game where you left it. But today games do cater to our entertainment anymore. Games today are in the business of exploiting our frustration. We […]

If Super Mario World had been released on an App Store

Games used to be fun. At some point in time games even had an option to save the current progress so that you could later come back and restart the game where you left it. But today games do cater to our entertainment anymore. Games today are in the business of exploiting our frustration. We […]

DSL router patch hides backdoor instead of closing it

Last Christmas Eloi Vanderbeken of Synacktiv Digital Security gave the owner of 24 models of DSL modems that their equipment have a backdoor that allowed to send administrative commands to the routers without a password. The list of affected modems include home models from Netgear, Cisco (branded Cisco and Linksys alike) and Diamond. In January, the vendors released […]

DSL router patch hides backdoor instead of closing it

Last Christmas Eloi Vanderbeken of Synacktiv Digital Security gave the owner of 24 models of DSL modems that their equipment have a backdoor that allowed to send administrative commands to the routers without a password. The list of affected modems include home models from Netgear, Cisco (branded Cisco and Linksys alike) and Diamond. In January, the vendors released […]

Living with lag – an oculus rift experiment

A group of volunteers tried to do a couple of day-to-day tasks with a 3 seconds delay. See how that did go… They use a oculus rift to create a delay between what is in front of them and what they see by three seconds, making real live way more interesting. The device they used uses […]

Living with lag – an oculus rift experiment

A group of volunteers tried to do a couple of day-to-day tasks with a 3 seconds delay. See how that did go… They use a oculus rift to create a delay between what is in front of them and what they see by three seconds, making real live way more interesting. The device they used uses […]

News on Patents

Microsoft signs Motorola to Android patent pact – no, not Motorola Mobility, Motorola Solutions, the part that Google didn’t buy, has signed an agreement with Microsoft to license the “approximately 200 patent families that are necessary to build an Android phone” Microsoft owns. That leaves only Motorola Mobility – now part of Lenovo – as the only […]

News on Patents

Microsoft signs Motorola to Android patent pact – no, not Motorola Mobility, Motorola Solutions, the part that Google didn’t buy, has signed an agreement with Microsoft to license the “approximately 200 patent families that are necessary to build an Android phone” Microsoft owns. That leaves only Motorola Mobility – now part of Lenovo – as the only […]

Kepler-186f needs a better name

Kepler space telescope found a planet that is similar in size to earth and is inside the Goldilocks zone – the zone around a star where a planet may have water in it’s liquid state at the surface – of the M class Red Dwarf start he orbits. NASA says that the planet may not be […]

Kepler-186f needs a better name

Kepler space telescope found a planet that is similar in size to earth and is inside the Goldilocks zone – the zone around a star where a planet may have water in it’s liquid state at the surface – of the M class Red Dwarf start he orbits. NASA says that the planet may not be […]

Supreme Court makes it easier to make the trolls pay

The US Supreme court thinks that if your claims in a patent case are bad enough, you should pay all the costs of both parties. This is a good decision from the Supreme court, that sends two cases back to the lower courts to new decisions. Courts are usually not big fans of shifting the cost […]

Supreme Court makes it easier to make the trolls pay

The US Supreme court thinks that if your claims in a patent case are bad enough, you should pay all the costs of both parties. This is a good decision from the Supreme court, that sends two cases back to the lower courts to new decisions. Courts are usually not big fans of shifting the cost […]

Tell Your Whole Story in an Interview

Lara Galinsky writes in Havard Business Review blogs that she starts every interview she makes with the same question: Tell me about your path leading up to today. Why is this role the right fit for you now? And she doesn’t expect that you just go back in time to the beginning of your career, but […]

Tell Your Whole Story in an Interview

Lara Galinsky writes in Havard Business Review blogs that she starts every interview she makes with the same question: Tell me about your path leading up to today. Why is this role the right fit for you now? And she doesn’t expect that you just go back in time to the beginning of your career, but […]

Netflix signs traffic deal with Verizon

Now that Net Neutrality is dead in the United States, the agreements for preferential traffic will start to be signed. Netflix had signed a deal with Comcast last February to have a direct link with the ISP, with Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO saying at the time that preferential treatment violates their definition of net neutrality. Now, […]

Netflix signs traffic deal with Verizon

Now that Net Neutrality is dead in the United States, the agreements for preferential traffic will start to be signed. Netflix had signed a deal with Comcast last February to have a direct link with the ISP, with Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO saying at the time that preferential treatment violates their definition of net neutrality. Now, […]

NASA Tech Transfer Software Catalog

NASA released their catalog of software that they are willing to share with some people, and they did it in a very original way – a 127 pages long .pdf file, with the name, reference and a small description of each of those programs and libraries. Unfortunately most of the software is only available for […]

Tactus – Buttons when you need them

Tactus wants to bring the physical keyboards back, but this turn, only when you need them. Tactus solution is completely transparent and controlled by the applications. Any kind of buttons, when you need them, and a smooth surface when you don’t need them. The camera in the left is one of their examples, where the […]

OnePlus – the CyanogenMod phone

OnePlus is the new kid in the block. It’s based on the open source version of Android, CyanogenMod, and beats every others phones on the specs. Better camera, top screen (full HD), quadcore at 2.5GHz, 3GB of RAM, up to 64GB of storage, all the communication protocols, including LTE (top speed internet access), Wifi and […]

Vulnerabillity in World Airline Network

This week Trivik Verma from ETH Zurich and a few colleges published a study of the vulnerability of the world airlines network, and the conclusion they got is unexpected: the core of the network is really robust, but the periphery of the network is formed by a network of airports connected to single hubs. Closing one of […]

Samsung Galaxy S5 fingerprint spoofed

Another phone with fingerprint authentication, the same spoofed fingerprint to bypass it. After the Chaos Computer Club released their finding on how to bypass the fingerprint authentication of the iPhone 5S only 2 days after it was released, it was now the turn for Galaxy S5 to suffer similar faith only 4 days after it was released. […]

Pyro Board – 2D Fire visualization board

Don’t try this at home. The old advise not to play with fire still applies. But this guys built a two dimensional sound board with 2500 small holes that demonstrates what happens when you get sound into a flammable gas.

Putin tells Snowden he doesn’t spy on Russians

Edward Snowden, the guy who told the world about the NSA mass surveillance pratices is now living in Russia, and decided to ask Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, about the existence of similar pratices in Russia. Putin told that Russia doesn’t have similar practices, that the country doesn’t even the financial capacity for a operation […]