NASA has put days of speculation to rest by announcing they have discovered seven planets in the orbit of nearby TRAPPIST-1 system. Despite some having inevitably hyped themselves up into believing that…
Category: Sci/Tech
How Snapchat Changed The Future
Another little piece I wrote for work this week. You can have a look at the original, or an excerpt quoted below. Karl Lagerfeld is probably very upset. The German fashion designer…
1984 sales up 7,000%
Sales of George Orwell’s classic work 1984 have rocketed by 7,000% in the last week, in the aftermath of revelations concerning surveillance on US citizens by the American government. Orwell’s bleak vision of…
Could we be living in a computer simulation?
The good folks over at io9 have posted a really nice piece on the possibility that we are living inside a huge computer simulation. What broadband provder should be used in this…
New Comet May Outshine Moon
An exciting piece of news from over at Geekologie. A new comet, which has been discovered near Saturn, could become one of the brightest ever recorded when it speeds past the Sun…
NASA Working On Warp Drive
In the second of today’s new technology stories, it’s the exciting news that NASA have begun work on warp drive. [quote]Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is not such a…
Driverless Car Bill Signed
It may look like the stuff of science-fiction, and sound like the stuff of science-fiction, but it’s soon to become science-fact. California governor Jerry Brown backed legislation on Tuesday to bring driverless…
Endeavour’s Last Flight HD
A really nice video taken from Gizmodo, with some gorgeous shots of the Space Shuttle Endeavour’s last flight in California. The video is shot using a RED Epic camera at 5K resolution with…
UK Meteor Was Space Junk
Twitter exploded last night in a similar fashion to the disintegrating meteor that came tumbling through the atmosphere above Britain. Now, experts claim that the fireball was more likely to have been…
Huge Meteor over UK
Thousands of people witnessed a large fireball heading over the United Kingdom and Ireland on Friday evening (September 21st 2012). The large meteor could be seen from Dublin to Belfast, and Glasgow…
Martian Spheres Puzzle Experts
The discovery of a collection of strange spherical objects on Mars has caused a stir over at NASA. Despite all the fuss made over the Curiosity rover in recent months, the discovery has actually…
Mac OS X Battery Life Boost
I’ve recently bought a new MacBook Air, and despite promises of colossal battery life – it really doesn’t last that long when I’m sitting browsing Safari on Wi-Fi. To quote Aldous Snow:…
HD Curiosity Descent (30 FPS)
Someone with apparently too much time on their hands has spent four weeks putting together an HD video of NASA’s Curiosity rover’s descent. He’s retouched the original footage, upping the quality considerably,…
BioWare Test High-Population Star Wars Servers
BioWare have begun rolling out and testing their new high-population server technology for Star Wars: The Old Republic. The move comes ahead of an imminent switchover to free-to-play, a decision that will…
The Asteroid That Saved Christianity
The year is 312AD. Constantine, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, has launched a pre-emptive attack on rival emperor Maxentius, with the two meeting in battle at Milvian Bridge. Constantine, by this…
Kicksorter – Sifting through Kickstarter
Hopefully you have heard of Kickstarter. It represents the beginning of huge paradigm shift in independent publishing. If you have not heard or do not remember the xkcd cartoon, here is the low…
Apple iPhone launches “no longer excite”
Dan Lyons – creator of the Fake Steve blog – has written a pretty pessimistic piece for the BBC, in which he explains his views on Apple’s launches, and their supposedly accompanying…
TARDIS Trash Can
Got $90 to spare? Who does these days? But if you do, here’s the perfect item to spend it on! ThinkGeek have come up with a TARDIS Trash Can, complete with lighting…