Day: October 4, 2013

Art

Spectacular Microscopic Art Is Also World-Changing Science

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As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER Old plant tissue stained for teaching botany at Cambridge. Old plant tissue stained for teaching botany at Cambridge. Fluorescent proteins in bacterial biofilms. Crystals in polarized light (urea). Old plant tissue stained for teaching botany at Cambridge. Fluorescent proteins in plants. Old plant tissue stained for teaching botany at Cambridge (Corch tree). Crystals in polarized light (urea). Crystals in polarized light (urea). Oils. Fluorescent proteins in plants. Oils. Crystals…

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Culture Environmental

A CITY IN FLAMES: INSIDE DETROIT’S WAR ON ARSON

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As reported on The Verge. By Jesse Hicks Understaffed and with few resources, Detroit-area firefighters battle a plague of abandoned, burning buildings For eight long years, the firefighters of Highland Park, Michigan, worked out of a warehouse. There was no red-bricked facade, no lanky Dalmatian. No freshly washed engines gleaming in the sun. No second-floor fire pole to descend in the dead of night to wailing sirens. Whatever idealized vision you have of firefighting, Highland Park…

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Business

The Twitter IPO By The Numbers

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MATTHEW PANZARINO Here are some accumulated statistics from our scouring of the Twitter IPO filing for your perusal. The overall numbers show a company with good but slowing growth in users, solid revenue in mobile but no profit yet to show. Twitter is absolutely a mobile-friendly company, with some 75 percent of its monthly active users coming on portable devices. About 65 percent of its ad revenue comes from there, too, in sharp…

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Apple

Apple releases OS X Mavericks gold master to developers

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent Apple’s latest flavor of OS X, Mavericks, is just weeks away from landing on customers’ Macs, as the gold master has now been unleashed to the developer hordes. Though not a dramatic remake like iOS 7, it’ll bring a bring a facelift to such apps as Safari and Calendar, along with better energy management, easier networking, iOS notifications, improved multi-monitor support and more. Developers on AppleSeed also got new versions of iPhoto and Xcode, along with…

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Application

Zepp 3D motion sensor captures sports data, helps step up your swing

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As reported on Engadget. By Mariella Moon  Activity trackers like FuelBand are great if you just want to exercise, but Zepp Labs’ new 3D motion sensor might be more useful if you’re seriously training in a sport — especially if it’s tennis, baseball or golf. A 1-inch square of negligible weight, the sensor captures data from each swing you make — so long as you attach it to a glove, racket or bat — then transmits info to its accompanying…

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