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Mind Control: World’s first 3D printed object created using brain waves
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on May 24, 2013
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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: Sky City One, sub-zero cafe and the world’s longest Lego train track
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on May 19, 2013
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Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.
Eyes in the design world turned to New York City this week as New York Design Week officially launched. We hit the floors of International Contemporary Furniture Fair today to bring you the best new green designs from one of the largest contemporary design shows in the US — including Blackbody’s gorgeous OLED light trees and Tat Chao’s ethereal LED lamps made from recycled wine glasses. We also checked out the locally focused BKLYN Designs show, where design duo Bower unveiled an awesome magnetic LED lamp, made from discarded pieces of scrap wood. Lighting designer Adam Frank unveiled three inspiring new designs at BKLYN Designs: the LED Lumen lamp, which casts tree-shaped shadows from a little candle holder; the incredible Reveal Projector, which projects an image of outdoor foliage and sky through a window on a blank wall (good for tiny NYC apartment dwellers); and the 3D Hologram-ish LUCID Mirror, which displays a 3D image of illuminated clouds over your head!
Bill Gates Regains the Position of World’s Richest Person
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on May 17, 2013
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jones_supa writes “Bill Gates is once again the world’s richest person. He recaptured the title from Mexican investor Carlos Slim, as Microsoft hit a five-year high. It is the first time Gates has held the mantle since 2007. His fortune is valued at $ 72.7 billion, up 16 percent year-to-date. At the same time, Mr. Slim’s América Móvil, the largest mobile-phone operator in the Americas, has dropped 14 percent this year after Mexico’s Congress passed a bill that could quash the billionaire’s market dominance. That’s helped erase more than $ 3 billion from the tycoon’s net worth. What comes to Bill Gates, most of his fortune is held in Cascade Investment LLC, a holding entity through which he owns stakes in more than a dozen publicly traded companies and several closely held operations. He has donated $ 28 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.”
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How an Aussie University Creates the World’s Best Hackers
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on May 13, 2013
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bennyboy64 writes “An Australian university appears to be excelling at cultivating some of Australia’s best computer hackers. Following the University of NSW’s students recently placing first, second and third in a hacking war game (the first place winners also won first place last year), The Sydney Morning Herald reports on what exactly about the NSW institution is breeding some of Australia’s best hackers. It finds that a lecturer and mentor to the students with controversial views on responsible disclosure appears to the be the reason for their success.”
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Facebook and Waze: blending your worlds together one data point at a time
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on May 10, 2013
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Word has it Facebook is looking to acquire crowdsource navigation app Waze for a hefty $ 1 billion. Such a move would provide the social network with an array of location-based data far more substantial than any it has had thus far, adding the information on top of what it already knows about consumers’ likes, check-ins,
Shots fired from world’s first 3D-printed gun
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on May 7, 2013
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Backed Or Whacked: Bridging Worlds Without Words
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on May 5, 2013
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Editor’s note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals.
One of the hottest areas of tech interest right now is the Internet of Things, wherein everyday objects communicate with each other. As doorknobs and clothing learn to communicate, we can only hope that they will protect their language better than the humans who have seen English reduced to abbreviated gibberish in the face of texting and Twitter. If Kickstarter campaigns are any indication, though, objects have a lot to say without speaking at all.
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Ming Mecca modules steer whole game worlds through voltage (video)
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on May 4, 2013
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Just about every gamer we know has wanted to alter a game world on the spot, whether it’s to cheat, fix game mechanics or experiment. Special Stage Systems’ Ming Mecca system is built entirely around that concept — and will definitely appeal to anyone with a fondness for analog electronics. Knobs and switches on its World Core synthesizer module adjust the game machine’s maps, graphics, characters and even physics through voltage tweaks. Players only have to load assets on an SD card if they’d like a different look, and they even have access to the firmware and schematics if they want to go completely off the beaten path. Input is just as unconventional: a Control Core turns NES-compatible gamepads into signal generators that can be used just as easily for music making as for playing. Ming Mecca isn’t expected to ship until summer 2014, and it won’t be cheap at an estimated $ 999 for a World Core and $ 350 for the Control Core. Even so, we’re sorely tempted to splurge — it’s not often that a gadget scratches so many of our nostalgic itches at once.
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Scientists make world’s smallest movie
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on May 2, 2013
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Extreme closeup! IBM makes ‘world’s smallest movie’ using atoms (video)
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on May 1, 2013
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After taking a few shadowy pictures for the scientific world’s paparazzi, the atom is now ready for its closeup. Today, a team of IBM scientists are bypassing the big screen to unveil what they call the “world’s smallest movie.” This atomic motion picture was created with the help of a two-ton IBM-made microscope that operates at a bone-chilling negative 268 degrees Celsius. This hardware was used to control a probe that pulled and arranged atoms for stop-motion shots used in the 242-frame film. A playful spin on microcomputing, the short was made by the same team of IBM eggheads who recently developed the world’s smallest magnetic bit. Now that the atom’s gone Hollywood, what’s next, a molecular entourage?
Simple Trick Turns Commercial Polymer Into World’s Toughest Fiber
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on April 30, 2013
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Simple Trick Turns Commercial Polymer Into World’s Toughest Fibre
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on April 29, 2013
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Physicists Build World’s First “Magnetic Hose” For Transmitting Magnetic Fields
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on April 25, 2013
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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: Ekinoid, HDlive ultrasound and the world’s lightest electric vehicle
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on April 21, 2013
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Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.
It’s been an exciting week for green building as Inhabitat reported that some of the world’s top architects unveiled plans for high-tech developments with light environmental footprints. Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) won an international design competition for Europa, a new green-roofed city outside of Paris. Construction began last week on a new solar-powered stadium for the Euro 2016 football championship designed by Herzog & de Meuron. San Francisco celebrated the reopening of the Exploratorium this week in a new net-zero building along the city’s waterfront. In Mexico City, a helipad on the roof of an office building was converted into a co-working space with a gorgeous rooftop garden. And we also profiled the Ekinoid, a spherical, self-sufficient home that sits on stilts and is built to withstand disaster.
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Perfect planets for life? Telescope sees distant worlds not too hot, not too cold, not too big
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on April 20, 2013
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Russian becomes world’s oldest spacewalker at 59
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on April 20, 2013
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Twitter Launches the World’s Upteenth Online Music Site
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on April 18, 2013
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Nerval’s Lobster writes “Twitter is plunging into the online music game. Twitter Music (or “Twitter #music,” in the company’s own rendering) uses Twitter activity such as Tweets and engagement “to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists,” according to an April 18 posting on Twitter’s official blog. Songs on the app derive from three sources: iTunes, Spotify, or Rdio. And yes, Twitter is big, but its victory is by no means assured: other IT giants have entered the same market only to watch highly-publicized projects wither away, doomed by some combination of audience apathy and implementation issues. Take Apple’s Ping, for example: launched in September 2010 as part of an iTunes update, the ambitious social-networking and music-recommendation engine immediately ran into a number of problems, including a lack of Facebook integration (despite Steve Jobs’ assurances to the contrary) and widespread reports of spam and fake accounts. Can Twitter’s effort stand out, or will it just be lost in all the noise?”
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Apple loses title of world’s most valuable company to Exxon
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on April 17, 2013
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Hawaii land board approves plan to build world’s largest telescope atop Mauna Kea summit
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on April 16, 2013
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Construction of world’s largest optical telescope approved
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on April 15, 2013
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The massive Thirty Meter Telescope will be able to image objects 13 billion light years away, near the beginning of time. [Read more]
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Seagate Ships World’s First 4TB HD With Four 1TB Platters
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on April 3, 2013
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Seagate will be shipping a 4TB hard drive that has the distinction of being the world’s first to include a 1TB per platter design. This basically means that each spinning disk in the hard drive has a capacity of 1TB, and that there are four of them. It’s not everyday that you can claim to that have something that’s the “world’s first”, so don’t be too hard on Seagate. This certainly isn’t the first hard drive to have a 4TB capacity, but apparently the new 1TB per platter design significantly increases the hard drive’s performance over the competition. It consumes 35 percent less power than comparable drives on the market with 4TB capacities, and at 145MB/s, it has the highest average data rate as well. But most importantly, the new design will also bring down costs. A hard drive in an external casing can be had for $ 212, while just the bare drive will cost around $ 190. Bring on the terabytes, Seagate. My body and my illegally downloaded movies are ready.
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It’s been 40 years since the world’s first mobile phone call
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on April 3, 2013
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On April 3rd 1973, Martin Cooper made the first mobile call on the nine-inch (and 28-ounce) Motorola DynaTAC. Dialing up a rival at AT&T, he apparently said that he was ringing “to see if my call sounds good at your end.” While briefcase-size models had come before it, it’s Motorola’s truly mobile phone that became the go-to power accessory for the likes of Gordon Gekko, Zack Morris and, er, American Psycho‘s Patrick Bateman. Since its heyday, however, the AMPS analog networks that the phone used to run on have now largely disappeared, replaced by digital ones that have added better call clarity, not to mention data connectivity at ever-improving speeds. We’ve come a long way.
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Scientists Create World’s First 3D-Printed 3D Printer
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on April 1, 2013
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Long-delayed Blue Waters supercomputer at Univeristy of Illinois among world’s most powerful
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on March 28, 2013
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Embryos of world’s most endangered cat preserved for 1st time
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on March 25, 2013
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It seems counterintuitive that castration could help save a species facing extinction.
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World’s Largest High-Rise Data Center Opens In New York
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on March 23, 2013
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CowboyRobot writes with this excerpt from Wall Street & Technology: “[Wednesday of this week], Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the opening [of] a 1 million square foot high-rise data center [in the] old Verizon switching building at 375 Pearl Street. Sabey Data Center Properties, the owner of the property, has named the data center Intergate.Manhattan and says the building’s location, power supply and connectivity to underground fiber make it an ideal location for a data center in New York City. … Intergate.Manhattan has only one tenant so far, the New York Genome Center, a compute and storage platform for 12 leading medical institutions to tackle the big data challenges that will bring the benefits of genomics to patient care.” Let’s hope they keep plenty of fuel around for next storm season.
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Too Much Gold Delays World’s Fastest Supercomputer
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on March 14, 2013
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Nerval’s Lobster writes “The fastest supercomputer in the world, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s ‘Titan,’ has been delayed because an excess of gold on its motherboard connectors has prevented it from working properly. Titan was originally turned on last October and climbed to the top of the Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers shortly thereafter. Problems with Titan were first discovered in February, when the supercomputer just missed its stability requirement. At that time, the problems with the connectors were isolated as the culprit, and ORNL decided to take some of Titan’s 200 cabinets offline and ship their motherboards back to the manufacturer, Cray, for repairs. The connectors affected the ability of the GPUs in the system to talk to the main processors. Oak Ridge Today’s John Huotari noted the problem was due to too much gold mixed in with the solder.
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Russia’s Avito Becomes World’s 3rd Biggest Classifieds Site After Naspers Deal
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on March 12, 2013
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South Africa’s Naspers has agreed to merge its two Russian online classified Web site with Avito in a $ 570 million deal that will make Avito the world’s third biggest classified site after Craigslist and China’s 58.com.
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Ferrari Unveils World’s Fastest (and Most Expensive) Hybrid
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on March 11, 2013
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Hugh Pickens writes writes “Fred Meier reports that Ferrari has unveiled its fastest car ever, a nearly 1000 hp. gas-electric hybrid dubbed LaFerrari that does 0-62 mph in less than 3 seconds, 0-124 in less than 7 seconds, 0-186 mph in 15 seconds. “We chose to call this model LaFerrari,” says Ferrari’s President, Luca di Montezemolo, “because it is the maximum expression of what defines our company – excellence. …Aimed at our collectors, this is a truly extraordinary car which encompasses advanced solutions that, in the future, will find their way onto the rest of the range.” LaFerrari is the company’s first hybrid and has a system that incorporates technology developed for the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One race car’s KERS (kinetic energy recovery system) setup. In LaFerrari, the hybrid (HY-KERS) version uses a 6.26-liter, non-turbo, V-12 gas engine rated at 800 hp coupled with a 163 hp. electric motor for a combined rating of 963 hp. A second, separate electric motor drives the power accessories.”
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Facebook founders are world’s youngest billionaires
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on March 5, 2013
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The “World’s Young and Hungry”: Where Real Mobile Innovation Will Come From
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on February 26, 2013
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Companies are scrambling to develop products and operating systems for the developing world, but any old phone will do
For some time now, smartphones have become tediously similar (see “The New Smartphone Incrementalism”). We’ve been to the glitzy U.S. launches—the Motorola Droids, the Nokia Windows phones, the iPhone 5, the Blackberry 10, and so on. Let’s face it: they are much the same. Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona was filled with the latest advances—but, again, these were at the margins.
How dinosaurs grew the world’s longest necks
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on February 25, 2013
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How did the largest of all dinosaurs evolve necks longer than any other creature that has ever lived? One secret: mostly hollow neck bones, researchers say
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World’s First Bitcoin ATM
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on February 25, 2013
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bill_mcgonigle writes “I just bought bitcoins from the World’s first Bitcoin ATM at Liberty Forum. I created an account using an Android Bitcoin client and held up its QR code to the Raspberry Pi-based device’s optical scanner. After I fed in a $ 20 Federal Reserve Note, I got back a confirmation QR code on its display, which I then scanned and checked the third-party confirmation URL. The machine can function on any wireless network and will soon be available for purchase by merchants, who can make a commission on customers’ Bitcoin purchases.”
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Crave Ep. 110: Prevent a hangover with the worlds first ‘sober pill’?
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on February 23, 2013
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Scientists have created what may be the worlds first pill that can make you sober if you’ve had too much to drink. Russian meteorite fragments go up for sale on online as well as Milla Jovovich’s shorts and later this year a man will have surgery to attach a bionic hand that can feel touch sensations. [Read more]
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Nature’s Giants: The world’s biggest critters
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on February 23, 2013
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The world’s fastest microscopic 3D printer
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on February 21, 2013
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Buffalo sets Feb. launch date for ‘world’s fastest’ external PC hard drive
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on February 15, 2013
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Buffalo Technology has set the end of this month as the launch date for its DriveStation DDR external hard disk enclosure, which uses a 1GB DRAM cache to achieve what Buffalo says is the world’s fastest transfer speed.
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Invisible war rages in world’s oceans
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on February 14, 2013
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World’s First Digital Laser Designed and Built in Africa
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on February 5, 2013
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‘Extrasolar cartography’ could provide rough pictures of alien worlds
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on January 30, 2013
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Tesla Model S dubbed ‘world’s quickest production electronic vehicle’ by NEDRA, runs 1/4 mile in 12 seconds
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on January 28, 2013
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We already knew the Tesla Model S was fast, but not this fast. After dropping a 12.371 quarter mile this past weekend at the Palm Beach International Raceway in Florida (@ 110.84 MPH), the National Electric Drag Racing Association awarded the Tesla Model S its stamp of officiation for being “the quickest production vehicle” in quarter mile tests. That’s not just on a single pass, mind you, but several quarter mile runs over the course of a day at the track. Each pass reaffirmed a 12-second average from the 416HP electric beast — more than proficient for a 4,700-lb hulk of metal, and more than competitive against much lighter and more expensive beasts. And that’s all without internal combustion, lest you forget — the thing even gets 350 miles per charge. Drag Times attended the event and promises video in the coming days, but for now you can peep the quarter mile timeslips and read their rundown.
[Photo credit: Drag Times]
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Data Analyst Spoils the World’s Biggest Song Vote
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on January 27, 2013
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littlekorea writes “A data analyst has successfully predicted the top ten songs of the world’s biggest song contest — the Triple J Hottest 100 — by extrapolating voting intentions fans had posted on Twitter and Facebook. Nick Drewe’s Warmest 100 list closely mimicked the Hottest 100 results, predicting the top three in correct order and predicting 92 of the most popular 100 songs.”
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Apple no longer the world’s most valuable company
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on January 25, 2013
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3D printer to carve out world’s first full-size building
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on January 22, 2013
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A Dutch architect sets to work creating a two-story “Landscape House” built entirely from a 3D printer. [Read more]
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3D printer to carve out world’s first full-sized building
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on January 22, 2013
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A Dutch architect sets to work creating a two-story “Landscape House” built entirely from a 3D printer. [Read more]
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Consumers Generate Most of the World’s Data, but Machines Are Catching Up
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on January 10, 2013
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The world’s trove of information is already expanding incredibly fast. Now automated applications will quickly enlarge it even further.
A global proliferation of devices like the ones many manufacturers are showcasing at this week’s annual Consumer Electronics Show has made the number of bytes in the world balloon extremely rapidly. Since 2005, when analysts at market research firm IDC began publishing an annual estimate of all the bytes added to the “digital universe,” defined as “all the information created, replicated, and consumed in a single year,” the number has grown from 130 billion gigabytes to 2.8 trillion gigabytes in 2012. IDC’s latest projection is that by 2020 the number will reach 40 trillion.
Inside the world’s most powerful laser
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on January 8, 2013
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The National Ignition Facility (NIF) — a laser test facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. — is the world’s most powerful laser. Though it faces fiscal challenges, NIF is still capable of unleashing a blast with 500 trillion watts of power. Put that another way: Five hundred terawatts is 1,000 times more power than the United States uses at any instant in time.
Samsung introduces its CES audio hardware, claims a world’s first
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on January 6, 2013
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Samsung’s just unveiled its raft of audio products at CES and they’re headlined by what the firm claims is a world’s first: a sound bar to pack a built-in vacuum tube and Bluetooth for connecting to tubes of another kind (read: TVs). A portable wireless bluetooth speaker (labeled the DA-F60), pumps out tunes with the apt-X audio codec and leverages NFC to connect to devices. Home theater buffs were also given a nod with a 7.1 channel surround sound system intended to be used with the firm’s line of 2013 televisions. As for internals, the system relies on a Gallium Nitride amplifier for enhanced sound quality. If you’re jonesin’ for a new way to watch Blu-Rays to go along with the fresh audio hardware, Sammy’s also unveiled a “premium” Blu-Ray player which upscales content to 4k. Head past the break for the press release and full set of glamour shots.
Gallery: Samsung CES 2013 Audio Hardware
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Alta Devices claims world’s lightest, most efficient military solar chargers
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on January 4, 2013
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Alta Devices has already laid claim to one solar charging-related record, now it’s claiming to add world’s lightest to its list of selling points. The company is still touting its mats as the most efficient (though, there are some valid challenges to that claim), but it’s adding portability and versatility to its resume. It’s smallest military model weighs just four ounces, is roughly the size of a sheet of paper and delivers 10 watts of juice while meeting all the requisite durability standards. There’s also a larger 20 watt, eight-ounce version that the company claims can keep a soldier supplied with power all day in strong sunlight. The next step is to put these light, efficient cells in unmanned drones and, hopefully, consumer electronics. For a bit more check out the PR and video after the break.
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World’s Oldest Fossils Found In Australia
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on January 2, 2013
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Dexter Herbivore sends this quote from the Washington Post: “Scientists analyzing Australian rocks have discovered traces of bacteria that lived a record-breaking 3.49 billion years ago, a mere billion years after Earth formed. If the find withstands the scrutiny that inevitably faces claims of fossils this old, it could move scientists one step closer to understanding the first chapters of life on Earth. The discovery could also spur the search for ancient life on other planets. These traces of bacteria ‘are the oldest fossils ever described. Those are our oldest ancestors,’ said Nora Noffke, a biogeochemist at Old Dominion University in Norfolk who was part of the group that made the find and presented it last month at a meeting of the Geological Society of America.”
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