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When scientists with the Center for Automotive Embedded Systems Security (CAESS) tested some recent cars’ security systems by “hacking” into them with an MP3 player hooked up via the OBD-II port, they realized that they could indeed not only hack into the car, but enable and disable some features...
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This is this awesome on a new level; to begin with, it looks like it’s right out of Star Wars, secondly it weighs only 2lbs and has a capacity of around 50 shots. Shots can penetrate thin plastic when unfocused, but once focused with a lens, it can pierce...
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In 1992, a shipping crate containing app. 28.000 rubber duckies fell overboard from a ship that was carrying it from Hong Kong to the USA. The crate evidently opened somehow and the duckies were spilled. Now, after almost 20 years, they’ve been used to track marine currents as well...
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Earlier this month, scientists at the Osaka University announced their development of human shaped cell phones, that feel like real human skin. Yes, you’ve read that right. Human shaped cell phones that feel like real human skin. So naturally, some of the questions that have come to mind are,...
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Although it appears doctored, the photo, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is quite authentic. This is surprising because in nature, and thereby space, regular shapes are stunningly rare. Trees are crooked, seldom are they perfectly straight. The branches have different angles, rarely a perfect regular 90° angle, and...
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Last week, when her flight to Chili was postponed due to a long week-end holiday in Argentina, Cindy Lauper gave an “a cappella” interpretation of her 1980s smash hit “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” at the Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires. Onlookers, both travelers and employees pitched in and...
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In what had to have been a spectacular display of astronomical proportions, photos and video of not one, not two, but three suns over Suichuan County in China. The phenomenon is obviously an optical illusion due to the refraction of the sun either onto the clouds or ocean, from...
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A Sherbrooke woman who went missing earlier this week has been found alive and well. Medical student Stephanie Parent was driving from her home in Sherbrooke Quebec, to Bathurst in New Brunswick, where she was supposed to begin an internship as a doctor. Apparently she was trusting her GPS for...
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Mr and Mrs Burford, of Eldersfield, Gloucestershire, were cutting down a Poplar tree to make firewood, when Mr.Burford noticed that the tree rings inside kinda looked like E.T., from the popular 1980s Spielberg movie. I’ll admit that it’s uncommon to find two rings in the same tree stump, but...
When scientists with the Center for Automotive Embedded Systems Security (CAESS) tested some recent cars’ security systems by “hacking” into them with an MP3 player hooked up via the OBD-II port, they realized that they could indeed not only hack into the car, but enable and disable some features...
This is this awesome on a new level; to begin with, it looks like it’s right out of Star Wars, secondly it weighs only 2lbs and has a capacity of around 50 shots. Shots can penetrate thin plastic when unfocused, but once focused with a lens, it can pierce...
In 1992, a shipping crate containing app. 28.000 rubber duckies fell overboard from a ship that was carrying it from Hong Kong to the USA. The crate evidently opened somehow and the duckies were spilled. Now, after almost 20 years, they’ve been used to track marine currents as well...
Earlier this month, scientists at the Osaka University announced their development of human shaped cell phones, that feel like real human skin. Yes, you’ve read that right. Human shaped cell phones that feel like real human skin. So naturally, some of the questions that have come to mind are,...
Although it appears doctored, the photo, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is quite authentic. This is surprising because in nature, and thereby space, regular shapes are stunningly rare. Trees are crooked, seldom are they perfectly straight. The branches have different angles, rarely a perfect regular 90° angle, and...
Last week, when her flight to Chili was postponed due to a long week-end holiday in Argentina, Cindy Lauper gave an “a cappella” interpretation of her 1980s smash hit “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” at the Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires. Onlookers, both travelers and employees pitched in and...
In what had to have been a spectacular display of astronomical proportions, photos and video of not one, not two, but three suns over Suichuan County in China. The phenomenon is obviously an optical illusion due to the refraction of the sun either onto the clouds or ocean, from...
A Sherbrooke woman who went missing earlier this week has been found alive and well. Medical student Stephanie Parent was driving from her home in Sherbrooke Quebec, to Bathurst in New Brunswick, where she was supposed to begin an internship as a doctor. Apparently she was trusting her GPS for...
Mr and Mrs Burford, of Eldersfield, Gloucestershire, were cutting down a Poplar tree to make firewood, when Mr.Burford noticed that the tree rings inside kinda looked like E.T., from the popular 1980s Spielberg movie. I’ll admit that it’s uncommon to find two rings in the same tree stump, but...