When an angry man bent on revenge builds a customized armored bulldozer to tear apart a small town, he gets further than anyone could have predicted. Watch this clip from Discovery Channel’s “Destroyed In Seconds” series to learn what happens next. Original post by samzenpus
The Bible teaches that faith is “the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” — a concept that must drive scientists insane. Yet, you’ll often find rational thinkers using science to prove some incredibly irrational beliefs. Original post by samzenpus
eldavojohn writes “After developing and using TaintDroid, several universities found that of 30 popular free Android apps, half were sharing GPS data and phone numbers with advertisers and remote servers. A few months ago, one app was sending phone numbers to a remote server in China but today the situation looks a lot more prevasive. [...]
An anonymous reader writes “There is interesting new research coming out of MIT, which suggests that current operating systems are struggling with the addition of more cores to the CPU. It appears that the problem, that affect the available memory in a chip when multiple cores are working on the same chunks of data, is [...]
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has been trying decide for weeks if science kits designed to teach children are safe enough for children to use without vigorous testing. It’s not just the chemicals or sharp items in the kits that they are troubled with however. They are also concerned about the dangers of paper clips, [...]
techbeat writes “A flake of exotic carbon a few atoms thick has claimed a record: the speck has been spun faster than any other object, at a clip of 60 million rotations per minute. Previously, micrometre-sized crystals have been spun at up to 30,000 rpm using an optical trap. It is thanks to graphene’s amazing [...]
