When we took a biology lab, you had to use a mouth pipette to transfer liquids around. That always seemed odd to use your mouth to pick up something that could be dangerous. It’s also not very efficient. A modern lab will use a liquid handling robot, but these aren’t exactly cheap. Sometimes these are…
Sean Parker Builds Beach-Access App To Atone For His Rule-Violating Wedding
An anonymous reader quotes the Associated Press: A tech billionaire whose elaborate wedding in a redwood grove violated California rules has helped create a smartphone app that shows users a map of more than 1,500 spots where people can get to the coastline. The California Coastal Commission unveiled the YourCoast app at its meeting Thursday…
Cydia app store pulls plug on purchases for jailbroken iPhones
The Cydia app store has been the place that those with jailbroken iPhones have flocked to for apps that Apple wouldn’t have in its app store, so the end to purchases feels like the beginning of the end of an era. …read more Source:: ZDNet
Brushless Motor Thrust Stand Provides Useful Data
When designing model aircraft of any shape or size, it’s useful to know the performance you can expect from the components chosen. For motors and propellers, this can be difficult. It’s always best to test them in combination. However, with the numbers of propeller and motor combinations possible, such data can be tough to come…
Study Reveals The Most Googled ‘Should I’ Questions In Each State
An anonymous reader quotes BGR: One of the more interesting 2018 retrospectives we’ve seen focuses on which Google searches were the most popular across each state. Specifically, AT&T tapped into data from Google Trends and came up with a rather amusing look at the most popular “should I…” questions on a state by state basis….
Shape Shifting Structures Work With Magnets
In The Dark Knight, Lucius Fox shows Bruce Wayne a neat bit of memory weave fabric. In its resting state, it is a light, flexible material, but when an electrical current is applied, it pops into a pre-programmed shape. That shape could be a tent or a bat-themed paraglider. Science has not caught up to…
Is The World Shifting To ‘Ambient Computing’?
In the future, “A massive convergence of technologies will enable us to use computers and the internet without really using them,” argues Computerworld. At the dawn of the personal computing revolution, people “operated” a computer. They sat down and did computing — often programming. Later, with the application explosion, operators became “users.” People used computers…
Manhattan Mystery of Creepy Jingles and Random Noises Solved
Here’s a puzzler for you: If you’re phreaking something that’s not exactly a phone, are you still a phreak? That question probably never crossed the minds of New Yorkers who were acoustically assaulted on the normally peaceful sidewalks of Manhattan over the summer by creepy sounds emanating from streetside WiFi kiosks. The auditory attacks caused…
How Microsoft Embraced Python
Steve Dower, a Python developer at Microsoft, describes how the language become popular internally: In 2010, our few Pythonistas were flying under the radar, in case somebody noticed that they could reassign a few developers to their own project. The team was small, leftover from a previous job, but was chipping away at a company…
Once Upon A Deadpool post-credits scene(s), broken down – CNET
The newly reedited and toned-down version of Deadpool 2 has a couple of new post-credits scenes to look forward to. Warning: spoilers ahead. …read more Source:: CNet
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