Digital rights campaigners want legal protection for gamers who want to carry on playing games after the relevant servers have shut down. But software firms have reportedly opposed such a move as promoting hacking. The issue has been raised by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and involves games which rely on access to an online server […]
A funded Kickstarter project wants to use a temperature sensor and automated control knob to stop you burning or undercooking the contents of your saucepan. The makers clearly haven’t met my stovetop. While we can’t all afford a sous vide machine, several products on the market already automate cooking to make sure meats cook perfectly. […]
3D printing already allows replicator machines, but they aren’t exactly pocket-sized. Now researchers believe it could be possible to scan an object for 3D printing using a smartphone camera. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have produced a proof-of-concept camera chip that’s considerably less than a millimeter square. If successfully developed and built into […]
Sort of speaks for itself, for those who did not get the see the lovely blood moon this past weekend, here is a version of it in real time, shot by N.A.S.A. Still pretty dang cool. Did seem like it was in an awful hurry for an eclipse, though. [Via Laughing Squid]
Stanford researchers have developed a flexible aluminium battery that charges in under a minute and may be safer than lithium-ion models. The downside is that it has a lower voltage than most rechargeable batteries. Rather than a solid casing, the battery consists of a pouch filled with two metals and a liquid. The anode is […]
Have you ever been to Agloe, New York? You might not have, considering it was made up to throw fake map makers off. Thing is, the (fake) place has taken on a life of its own, and is just one of many examples of such creations implemented to complicate the work of evil-doers. Take Argleton, […]
Most Walking Dead fans know by now that the show follows its own course and often deters from the story line in the comic series. But many of the fans of the source material know the situation Rick and his gang are in currently IS from the comic book, so where do they go and […]
One big problem right now with social media is the fact that many of us use it and end up being depressed because we compare our lives to the inaccurate lives we see show up in our feeds. So what if someone became aware of that problem and wanted to create a social network that […]
Sony has bought out streaming game rival OnLive, but will close it down at the end of the month. It seems the deal is more about patents related to the company’s streaming game technology than anything else. Neither side is revealing financial details of the deal. It’s possible the price may have been higher than […]
Searching for information online may boost how much you think you know, but it’s just an illusion. That’s the findings of researchers at Yale who’ve published their work through the American Psychological Association. A team led by Matthew Fisher carried out nine experiments, each involving half of participants being asked to search online to research […]